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

[campingshaws]

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.,,

[COLOR=4B0082]I agree with everyone else (now that I passed those posts...lol)....it's totally terrific to see your passion for your birds![/COLOR] [COLOR=4B0082]Love, LOVE, LOVE your enthusiasm!![/COLOR]

Cooked six eggs this morning, none were fertile. :/ I was finding fertile ones off and on, but now it's not looking so good...

[COLOR=4B0082]25 roosters would do the trick...[/COLOR] [COLOR=4B0082](Shhhhhhhh...don't tell anyone I have 25 roosters)[/COLOR] [COLOR=4B0082]Seriously though, sorry to hear that fertility has dropped.[/COLOR] [COLOR=4B0082]Can you get a new guy? Wouldn't take long to be back in business.[/COLOR]

I had a good one, but lost him right before Christmas. I've got a young guy out there now, but I don't think he's earned his privileges yet. hopefully in the next month or so. e

 

[draye]

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

That cake sounds delicious! Great project ideal.

I'll agree to that! 

thanks.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Quote: I had a good one, but lost him right before Christmas. I've got a young guy out there now, but I don't think he's earned his privileges yet.

hopefully in the next month or so.

Ahhhhhh, I see. That's unfortunate about you're original guy.

So yes, hopefully the new guy DOES earn his privileges quickly. Hopefully he's a gentleman and the girls oblige.
Those young roosters can be "pretty funny"...in more ways than one!

Wishing him, and you the best of luck!

 

[jwlpoultry]

Thanks @mlmddh

 

[Cynthia12]

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

DON'T FORGET!!

 

[peepsthebrassy]

  whatcha gonna hatch?

I'm going to hatch bantom mixes.

 

[Cynthia12]

Just had me a mix hatch..one of my Bubba's babies. The hen is a leghorn. All of those are hatching out white with the black spots. I've had those before. The one on the left is a leghorn mix, with an EE. The right one is pure Wheaten Americauana. They both gave pretty blue eggs.

 

[sweetsam]

My first hatch-a-thon!

I am in! Do you all end up selling all your chicks afterwards?

 

[Stacy minsta]

I would like to join!!

 

[mlm Mike]

Thanks @mlmddh

You're Welcome!

Just had me a mix hatch..one of my Bubba's babies. The hen is a leghorn. All of those are hatching out white with the black spots. I've had those before. The one on the left is a leghorn mix, with an EE. The right one is pure Wheaten Americauana. They both gave pretty blue eggs.

Nice Cynthia, photos soon?

My first hatch-a-thon!

I am in! Do you all end up selling all your chicks afterwards?

Welcome to the Easter hatch A Long!