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

[AmyLynn2374]

isnt it too late -even for the early hatchers?

Too late for the chicks to be Easter babies?? If they were set today and hatched a day early they would be hatched on Easter. Or am I not understanding the question???

 

[Cynthia12]

. Have to find a more cute ... find

a look like something...

 

[paris_r]

Too late for the chicks to be Easter babies?? If they were set today and hatched a day early they would be hatched on Easter. Or am I not understanding the question???

yeah, but it is evening....but OK, i 'threw' 10 d'uccle eggs in now-and they are early hatchers anyways. so i need to make sure these are added to the tally.

 

[Happy Chooks]

We had a difficult kidding this weekend and I missed the set day(s). My official number for the HAL is 0.

I will set next weekend instead and just follow along. Can't wait to see everyone's hatches!

BTW: Mother and daughter are doing fine now.

Adorable kid. You can still set your eggs today and be in the window of set time.

OH! So sorry to hear about our rooster. Is he the one that was with the Barnies fee weeks back?
Anyways, I can vouch for your eggs, they are extremely beautiful, even better looking in person than the pic.

Yes, I just moved him into the breeding pen.

 

[Wisher1000]

This tray has Silver and Golden Campines and EEs (non-recognized Ameraucanas.) There are 41 of them.

This tray has a mix of lots of different breeds that are all running together (AKA Mutts!) there are 39 of them.

That brings my EHAL total to 80! Yeeeeee Haaaaaaaaaa!

 

[bamadude]

@wisher
Is that thing full????
Im telling Ron on u....

 

[bamadude]

I see alot of free spaces. Ron may fine u

 

[ronott1]

I see alot of free spaces. Ron may fine u

 

[bamadude]

I'm the safety and collections departments.

 

[wornoutmomto3]

I am so ashamed!

It is my neighbors fault. I love her to death, but it is all her fault. Here I am going about my day, minding my own business. There are 16 happy as can be juvenile chicks bouncing around the big coop with the adults. Another 12 slightly younger chicks bouncing around a brooder in the laundry room waiting their turn to join the big flock. There are 37 eggs cooking in the various incubators for our "Incubator Wars." (It is so much fun.) Then she calls. At first it is all small talk and niceties. Then she drops "the question." Apparently she is going shopping in a different county and will be near a "different" local feed store. And as any good shopper and chicken raiser does, she called ahead to see what they had in stock. It would seem they have a few Speckled Sussex chicks in need of a good home. (Here it comes.) She was wondering if I would like her to bring some back for me...

I should answer no...

I need to answer no.

I really don't need any more chicks... at the moment...

I already have two Speckled Sussex eggs in the incubator...

but, what if they don't hatch...

It is a possibility... we have had incubator issues before...

After all, you aren't supposed to count your chicks before they hatch, right...

I am sure I could just squeeze a couple more chicks in...

DH won't notice just a few more, would he?...

He wouldn't get mad at me, right...

I can always ask for forgiveness instead of permission...

Yes! but not to many, maybe two or three! There, see, I limited myself.

I am so ashamed!

Those cute little fluff-balls.Those future egg machines. I just can't say no.

DH just shakes his head and sighs at this pitiful women who looks at that cute little beak and eyes to big for their head and feels the super soft fuzziness, and then caves. I am sure there must be a chickenaholics anonymous somewhere that won't mind a "minor" addiction.