The 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[bantambury]

Look what I got today!!!! The eggs I won in the NYD hatch for random post. Super SUPER excited here!!! A great big Thank You to Chicken Pickin, for the prize and great pack job, You're the BEST!!



Padding on the top...


Each egg wrapped in bubble wrap and cushioned by shredded paper...


Padding on the bottom, and BEAUTIFUL eggs!!! CCL, BLRW and Amauracana!! I am SOOO darn Lucky!!! I attribute it to my heritage....

@Chicken Picken can you PM me how you pack your eggs for shipping? looks extremely effective! I need to ship some eggs for the cinco de mayo hatch.......if I learn to ship I may donate some eggs to this hatch a long as well....

At the feet of my sister lol.

OH MY WORD! JUST LOOK AT THAT PHOTOGENIC SMILE! CALEB IM SO JELOUS! is it named? he or she?

 

[mlm Mike]

Thanks, it gets way more green, just starting. You still have snow..? The green will come!

No snow right now, but everything is still brown.

 

[ronott1]

home made? I am missing something? it is a octagon 20 lol

Yours is the first purchased incubator that has been posted in a picture in quite a while on here. I was starting to feel like an odd Duck(By the way, have you seen the cute Ducks over on the baby pictures contest thread?)

I fell much better now after seeing your Brinsea!

 

[gryeyes]

Contest #14 just made e drool.,. Literally. I don't think I have EVER drooled before when considering chicken breeds! I've had my teeth hurt in envy, coveting other breeds' pictures, but not drooling. And I don't eat my chickens!

The egg box is super nifty, too; I wish I had especially colorful eggs but my girls just lay light green, a couple pale blue, two white egg layers, and various shades of brown or pinkish tan. Nothing really amazing.

However, I JUST sold three dozen eggs to tourists at my favorite "watering hole!" Some of them had never seen (naturally) green eggs.

 

[angelobutter]

Yours is the first purchased incubator that has been posted in a picture in quite a while on here. I was starting to feel like an odd Duck(By the way, have you seen the cute Ducks over on the baby pictures contest thread?)

I fell much better now after seeing your Brinsea!

haha ok ya it seems i got spoiled by the brinseas and now I am getting even more spoiled by the Rcoms- just bough a second one- hope my husband doesn't notice

haha
I can't trust the home made ones. I know some probably work better than the purchased ones- i just can't do it lol.
anyways I feel much better now that I understand what you were saying- this is me 90% of the time :

 

[ronott1]

haha ok ya it seems i got spoiled by the brinseas and now I am getting even more spoiled by the Rcoms- just bough a second one- hope my husband doesn't notice

haha
I can't trust the home made ones. I know some probably work better than the purchased ones- i just can't do it lol.
anyways I feel much better now that I understand what you were saying- this is me 90% of the time :

I have been dreaming about getting Dickey Cabinet incubator so that I can

 

[angelobutter]

I wanted to get a cabinet incubator (for the same reason) but I saw so many mixed reviews on all of them I never decided which one to get

 

[wolftracks]

he already learned to RUN! At just 36 hours old.

I think it's because I have EMU envy!!!!


Update on my hatch and BTW I didn't even realize today was the first day of Spring until this morning. Didn't set the hatch that way, but I had to help my little almost tossed out egg, chicky. He was stuck and still just laying there, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Another pipped, zipped and hatched in less than an hour. He's running around making all kinds of noise. Sure hope more hatch so I don't have to deal with him yapping if the other doesn't make it.



I have to brag..................I had posted about my hatch on FB and my cousin was joking about me sending him some layers from California to Oklahoma. I told him I'd send him hatching eggs. He said he had no way to hatch them, so another cousin told him to sit on them. LOL By the time I finished he is now on BYC learning how to build a bator!!!! GOT EM!!!!!!!!!!!! muaaaaaaaaaa

 

[Happy Chooks]

went to check on the humidity and temperature (and take a photo so I could actually count how many there are) and it turns out they are hatching a day early! closed it up quick! hopefully the humidity gets up quickly again.

I want some of those purdy eggs.

Ha, had to share a couple of photos. I took my camera out today as I've been out quite a bit, and when I know I'm going to be out there, I never know what I will see. I had just hosed our Missy down..the dog. She was dusty. Didn't give her a full bath, just a hose down. Then, here comes a sex link. This girl isn't afraid of nothing. I gave Missy an apple treat for going through the hose down, the chickens love apples too..and this girl wants some!

Here she comes..Missy is watching..


If you look close, click on it.. that chicken mouth is open, and she isn't talking! LOL..I missed
the shot where she actually got a bite of apple. Missy just lifted her head and looked at
her. Good dog.

Good girl Missy! She doesn't look like she wants to share her apple though.

 

[Cynthia12]

I want some of those purdy eggs.

Good girl Missy! She doesn't look like she wants to share her apple though.

I know right? I saw that look in her eye and thought, best watch how this plays out..but, she was a good dog. Not sure she would have gone for it twice though. lol..