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

[ronott1]

I'm in!!

That is great!

What are you hatching?

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Only 1 week until emu eggs need to be set! Anyone setting them?

.......I'm not sayin' ANYTHING this time!

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......STILL not saying anything AT ALL! (much safer that way)

I brought home babies yesterday!!

Love the color!!

 

[Cynthia12]

Oh it is fun!

Lots of nice people too, especially me! Ha ha.

I'll agree to that!

 

[Cynthia12]

I am in! And if you can be fine with a May delivery I will donate a recipe book that I am putting together. My mother and I were sorting through some boxes of stuff that had been hastily shoved in the basement last year (Jeff Foxworthy: If you have more than one family's possessions stored in your basement....You might be a Redneck.)

I pulled out of a box of mostly junk an innocuous composition book. I looked in it and it was full of hand written recipes. The writing wasn't my mom's but their were familiar elements to it. As I flipped through the pages I finally realized when I had last seen the handwriting. This was penned by my Great Grandma Henson! She always did the New York Times crossword puzzle everyday. I last saw her handwriting when I was 10.

One of the recipe's is a chocolate cake that we have estimated is 160 years old by knowing who in the family baked that cake. It is so old that you have to hand beat it or it will be only as good as a box cake. When you hand beat it it is as dark as black walnuts and melts in your mouth. You don't even need icing. Hot with vanilla ice cream was my favorite way to eat it.

She originally came from Texas with Grandpa Henson. When their daughter (Grandma Fern) was four years old in 1910 they moved from Texas to Arkansas in a covered wagon. She saw the world move from horse and wagon through two World Wars to the moon walk. She was a teacher and told all of us great-grand children that our mind was a muscle and it had to be exercised or is would get feeble. She kept her mind sharp until the very last year of her life when her health broke down. She was a tiny woman, only 4' 11" but huge in presence.

I have been working on digitizing the recipes. I also want to cook each of them and photograph the dishes. I started doing it mostly as a family history project to be distributed to my cousins. But it occurs to me that other people might like the recipes too.

Kat Kestner

Yaay..here's another photo..just in case....I thought maybe you said, maybe....

 

[jwlpoultry]

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Thanks!!!

 

[Wickedchicken6]

So on my Instagram there is this lady, and she is sort of on on here... She had gotten three rheas 1 male and 2 female, but sadly the male and the one female died, so now she has Lillian and she is fully grown and lives with all the ducks, geese, goats,and turkeys! I have been purposely showing my mom her pics, becuase I have always been interested in them, and I was like "they are not that big, not like a ostrich" they didn't believe me until they saw the size comparison next to a mini Pygmy goat and she wasn't more than 4 ft. Tall and 2ft wide.... So I am talking them into it, 1 step at a time........

Ohhhhhhhh Sally I forgot all bout my favorite birds from this year.... A pair of call ducks, a pair of Sebbie geese, my Swedish duck that I won shows with, a red Cochin bantam frizzle, and the story of the hawk attack surviving silkie...Plus my austrolorps to show and breed... That I donated eggs from.. MORE PICS!!!! There is before and after pics of the silkie, and she was barely alive when I found her after 5 minutes of being outside, and I ran to turn off the water... I hawk came down and attacked her and scalped her, but luckily the Sebbie geese got it off and scared it away... I brought her in and cleaned it up and put some stuff on it,a don packed it... I took it off later and kept it off, and she lived off of Gatorade drank through a syringe.... She was in for about 2 months in my room with twizzler in the box next to her to keep her company... So I took her out now that it is pretty healed up, with only feathers needing to grow back in on the wound... Now she is living outside with Blue the silkie roo!! And twizzler... Well.., she hates other birds, and they hate her.., so she is a bedroom chicken.,,

I agree with everyone else (now that I passed those posts...lol)....it's totally terrific to see your passion for your birds!
Love, LOVE, LOVE your enthusiasm!!

Cooked six eggs this morning, none were fertile.

I was finding fertile ones off and on, but now it's not looking so good...

25 roosters would do the trick...


















(Shhhhhhhh...don't tell anyone I have 25 roosters)



Seriously though, sorry to hear that fertility has dropped.

Can you get a new guy? Wouldn't take long to be back in business.

 

[Loc20chick]

I might be in if I can remember to set my Barnyard mixes on March 5th.

 

[AmyPaperlady]

I might be in if I can remember to set my Barnyard mixes on March 5th.

I'm sure someone would be willing to remind you

 

[mlm Mike]

I want in! This would be my first HAL!

Welcome to the Easter Hatch A Long!

Please add me to the list.

Welcome to the Easter Hatch A Long!

I want in!!!! Hopefully will be setting Rhodebars

Welcome to the Easter Hatch A Long!

Will be setting chicken eggs for this Hatch A Long Please enter me.

Welcome to the Easter Hatch A Long!

This looks like fun! I would also like to join in

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Welcome to the Easter Hatch A Long!

I'm in!!

Welcome to the Easter Hatch A Long!

I am in! And if you can be fine with a May delivery I will donate a recipe book that I am putting together. My mother and I were sorting through some boxes of stuff that had been hastily shoved in the basement last year (Jeff Foxworthy: If you have more than one family's possessions stored in your basement....You might be a Redneck.)

I pulled out of a box of mostly junk an innocuous composition book. I looked in it and it was full of hand written recipes. The writing wasn't my mom's but their were familiar elements to it. As I flipped through the pages I finally realized when I had last seen the handwriting. This was penned by my Great Grandma Henson! She always did the New York Times crossword puzzle everyday. I last saw her handwriting when I was 10.

One of the recipe's is a chocolate cake that we have estimated is 160 years old by knowing who in the family baked that cake. It is so old that you have to hand beat it or it will be only as good as a box cake. When you hand beat it it is as dark as black walnuts and melts in your mouth. You don't even need icing. Hot with vanilla ice cream was my favorite way to eat it.

She originally came from Texas with Grandpa Henson. When their daughter (Grandma Fern) was four years old in 1910 they moved from Texas to Arkansas in a covered wagon. She saw the world move from horse and wagon through two World Wars to the moon walk. She was a teacher and told all of us great-grand children that our mind was a muscle and it had to be exercised or is would get feeble. She kept her mind sharp until the very last year of her life when her health broke down. She was a tiny woman, only 4' 11" but huge in presence.

I have been working on digitizing the recipes. I also want to cook each of them and photograph the dishes. I started doing it mostly as a family history project to be distributed to my cousins. But it occurs to me that other people might like the recipes too.

Kat Kestner

Welcome to the Easter Hatch A Long!

The recipe book sounds like a wonderful project.

I might be in if I can remember to set my Barnyard mixes on March 5th.

Welcome to the Easter Hatch A Long!

 

[NTBugtraq]

I'm experiencing the first "bad side" of the Brinsea Ova Easy cabinet incubators...once you go into lockdown there is virtually no way to see the eggs other than by taking an entire tray out...

Since this is my first hatch in the bator I am trying to go "by the book", and the book says 6 hours between door opening after lockdown...sheesh!