The 7th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-A-Long!

[chattery41]

@Sally Sunshine i ordered the stock tank de-icers thru Amazon.$31.09 each w/free shipping. The are 250 watt float/submersible and work in metal or plastic tanks. Or 5 gallon buckets like i use lol

 

[mlm Mike]

I'm in... I was debating between this or setting on the 3rd so they would hatch on my birthday.

Welcome to the Easter Hatch A Long!

I hope to set my
First batch this year of
Cream legbars and bantam black silkies
I use an octagon 20 brinsea incubator

Welcome to the Easter Hatch A Long!

 

[NTBugtraq]

Is it wrong for me to say I have an Octo 40 EX Advanced w/Humidity Pump for sale in the trading section?

 

[draye]

Well I got the chores done except for egg gathering.

Unloaded the 6 bags of feed I got today and poured them up into the barrels ( trash cans, that serve as barrels), Fed the chickens and cleaned out water era and out in fresh water. That is a chore within itself, I think my chicks are Pentecostals, they like foot washings, they get their water so dirty.

Took done pictures of some of them.

These are two from my last hatch on 1/15/2916.

These two got me to thinking "New Project". Blue Barred Naked Necks! But not sure I'd be able to do that, I think both of these are cockerels. But I guess I could use just the barred one, 'cause I have three barred hens already.

 

[ronott1]

Is it wrong for me to say I have an Octo 40 EX Advanced w/Humidity Pump for sale in the trading section?

We are not supposed to advertise in these threads but it should be ok to add a link to the ad here.

You can put a link in your signature line too.

 

[NTBugtraq]

I am sure I am not the first one to say this, but I haven't seen it posted before...

When I ordered my brooding plates from Premier 1, I also ordered 10 ceramic fake eggs. I have pullets who are laying on the ground instead of in nesting boxes and they rarely use more than the lower 5, so I thought these might help. They are cheap enough for me to say; "What the heck". They arrived yesterday and I put them in each nesting box.

So this morning I go out to collect eggs, and my first thought is; "Wow, they laid a lot of eggs"...then I remember the fake eggs. So I start collecting...and wow, you cannot tell these fake eggs from real ones other than by weight. I don't know about you, but my hand is not sensitive enough to know the difference between 35g and 60g eggs. Egg size, sure, but weight, nah. So I collected every egg from any nest that had more than one.

Turns out the ceramics are all light for their size, easy to distinguish when put on a scale. So I marked the fake eggs with an "F" (doh, shoulda done that before I put them in the nesting boxes, but then lolz, why don't they come marked??) So, if you buy them, mark them before you deploy them, lolz...

 

[nate1the1great1]

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Thanks for the info! I will ask about that if I ever need to ship eggs or have them shipped to me!

Oh, boy......are your parents on BYC?

No my parents don't mess with chickens..

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I am sure I am not the first one to say this, but I haven't seen it posted before...

When I ordered my brooding plates from Premier 1, I also ordered 10 ceramic fake eggs. I have pullets who are laying on the ground instead of in nesting boxes and they rarely use more than the lower 5, so I thought these might help. They are cheap enough for me to say; "What the heck". They arrived yesterday and I put them in each nesting box.

So this morning I go out to collect eggs, and my first thought is; "Wow, they laid a lot of eggs"...then I remember the fake eggs. So I start collecting...and wow, you cannot tell these fake eggs from real ones other than by weight. I don't know about you, but my hand is not sensitive enough to know the difference between 35g and 60g eggs. Egg size, sure, but weight, nah. So I collected every egg from any nest that had more than one.

Turns out the ceramics are all light for their size, easy to distinguish when put on a scale. So I marked the fake eggs with an "F" (doh, shoulda done that before I put them in the nesting boxes, but then lolz, why don't they come marked??) So, if you buy them, mark them before you deploy them, lolz...

That's why I have all white ceramic eggs and no white egg layers lol

ETA: paint them some off the wall color like people or florescent orange

 

[nate1the1great1]

I hope you clean that really well before anyone sits in it for a soak

Oh I do for sure...

 

[Chaos18]

I am sure I am not the first one to say this, but I haven't seen it posted before...

When I ordered my brooding plates from Premier 1, I also ordered 10 ceramic fake eggs. I have pullets who are laying on the ground instead of in nesting boxes and they rarely use more than the lower 5, so I thought these might help. They are cheap enough for me to say; "What the heck". They arrived yesterday and I put them in each nesting box.

So this morning I go out to collect eggs, and my first thought is; "Wow, they laid a lot of eggs"...then I remember the fake eggs. So I start collecting...and wow, you cannot tell these fake eggs from real ones other than by weight. I don't know about you, but my hand is not sensitive enough to know the difference between 35g and 60g eggs. Egg size, sure, but weight, nah. So I collected every egg from any nest that had more than one.

Turns out the ceramics are all light for their size, easy to distinguish when put on a scale. So I marked the fake eggs with an "F" (doh, shoulda done that before I put them in the nesting boxes, but then lolz, why don't they come marked??) So, if you buy them, mark them before you deploy them, lolz...

I use golf balls