The 6th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[suebgbr]

My moneymaker!

 

[chicken pickin]

My moneymaker!

Nice! How many eggs does it hold?

 

[Amywilliams]

I regret I'm gonna have to withdrawal from this HAL. I will be going out of town and don't want to burden my bird sitters with very young chicks.

Can you hatch them for the day after or two?

 

[LadyCluck77]

One of these bad boys took out 6 of my cats one year. (Barn/farm cats). Kept finding their furs laying in random places. Guess he just liked the meat.

I haven't told my hubby I have eggs arriving yet.

He WILL NOT be happy. He hates chickens. I finally got him to like a few last year but the fox took all them out so he's back to hating them again.

... maybe I should fix him a nice dinner before I tell him. Lol

They are a large member of the weasel family. Some people who have witnessed them confuse them for a dark mountain lion. They are smaller, but sometimes when you get startled by something, the animal can appear to be huge! In my area, you only find these in deep, deep woods. They can indeed take down domestic cats- sadly we lost a few cats that way when I was a child. I live on a busy road now so the cats don't get to go outside at all- not for fear of fishers, but the highway.

Yes, make him a super nice dinner, that usually helps! It took several years to convince my city-boy husband that we should get chickens. I brought him to the feed store and had him watch the little fuzzy babies for a while. That seemed to help trigger his weaknesses.

 

[ocap]

Missouri's weather forecast is great for collecting eggs for the hatch-a-long. This morning the temperature is 37F so no frozen eggs.

 

[suebgbr]

Nice! How many eggs does it hold?

About 300. Each layer holds 2 trays and each tray holds about 50 eggs. I have about 70 in at the moment

 

[birdman55]

morning....ITS HATCHING TIMETODAY

 

[CherMoz]

Oh no, my rooster Dixon died

. He never even got to see his first spring

.

So very sorry to hear that.

 

[CherMoz]

morning....ITS HATCHING TIMETODAY

So cute!!

 

[GAGE]

My eggs orders have all been confirmed, so with a little luck I will have some SFH, Olive Egger, and BCM chicks in 6 weeks or so! Looking forward to getting this thing started, and good luck and great hatches everyone!