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

[Lozuufy]

I would like to join!!

Welcome!

And

 

[chattery41]

My NYD babies are loving their Premier 1 brooder plate !

 

[Lozuufy]

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!

It is inhumane to make a bator people can't see into!

Complete torture.

 

[NTBugtraq]

My NYD babies are loving their Premier 1 brooder plate !

My plates are coming tomorrow, so mind if I ask a question? My brooders have a 12" wall around the bottom, I can see how high to put the plates...did you worry about that or just set them at a certain height?

 

[OneMountainAcres]

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

Thar recipe book sounds AMAZING! I'd be interested in one even if I have to buy it lol

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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.,,

Nathan!!! Love them and awesome save on the silkie! awesome wins too!! you so nice with donating eggies too!!

Hi everyone! I'm super new to backyard poultry (I have my first 3 viable chicken eggs going into lockdown tonight) but I'd like to participate. I'm aiming to set a dozen Cotournix Quail eggs for the hatch-along.

welcome!!! good luck with the chicken eggs!!!

I want in! This would be my first HAL!

Welcome over !!! Glad your with us!! will be fun!!

WOO HOO my silkies started laying so I will be able to do Easter silkies

Please add me to the list.

Welcome!! have you found your Iowa Blue?

While my hen won't be hatching around Easter, she has decided to go broody even though it is the middle of winter. She raised a clutch last year for the first time, and this is her second. I've got a number of new hens so I hope to get some fun colors out of the hatching.
Her name is Susie and she is the sister of Goldie, daughter of Libby (or Sonny, they were sisters as well), and grand-daughter of Pip, one of my original bantams.

I hope to set some eggs in the incubator to hatch the day before Easter.

Here she is with her last clutch of chicks, which are now grown. One of her daughters has two babies right now, in the very pen where she was raised.


Here are a couple of her daughters, Ruby and Tad


Another one, Dodie


And here she is with her brother (or perhaps uncle) and grandmother. I have five generations in my barn right now!)

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

sweet!! welcome!

Impatiently waiting for that first pip. Ahhhhh the agony!

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

Welcome Candy!! watcha gonna set?

I got 5 due tomorrow I have been watching hourly LOL

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I'm going to be setting my "Dalmatian" bantams, which is a fun project breed that I'm working with. They're a hardy bantam that is good at laying eggs, foraging, and brooding. However, so far I've gotten a whole lot of variety as far as appearance goes. That means I should get a lot of fun colored chicks. I've even got some blue ones that my hen hatched a few weeks ago.

The picture doesn't show their color too well, but one has silkie feathers and the other doesn't. These two varities of the Dalmatian I call Doves and Tadikas, after the original Dove and Tad.
cool

cool projects!!!!

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

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Welcome Grub!

whatcha gonna hatch?

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I'm in!!

Welcome!!!

do you know what your gonna hatch yet?

Quote: TRUE STORY!!

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

YUMMMMY choco cake!!!! I need desert!!!!

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

LOL come on!!!! set your cell alarm!!

Quote: sweet!! I just hatched some mixes too!

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.

awwwwwww

come on babies!!

My first hatch-a-thon!

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

I sell CL and FB pages Welcome!

I would like to join!!

welcome!!! any idea on whatcha gonna hatch?

 

[nanasacres]

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Thar recipe book sounds AMAZING! I'd be interested in one even if I have to buy it lol[/quote
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[JoyfulPromise]

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!

Oh dear, I was kind of worried about that...

I mean, I know you CAN see into the incubator through the big glass door, but I am sure it would be harder to keep a close eye on pipped eggs than through the top of a styrobater. Are you using the trays with hatching covers? In my Ova-Easy 190, it has 3 turning trays, and then space for 1 hatching tray on the bottom, and I am planning on doing a staggered hatch with 1 tray hatching each week. I am debating on whether to use the hatching tray cover because of the difficulty in seeing the eggs, and since the hatching eggs would be on the bottom shelf, I wasn't worried about them falling off. I know in big hatcheries they just wait until most of the chicks have hatched to remove them, but that is SO hard to do!!!!

 

[nanasacres]

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[Cynthia12]