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

[UGLYFOOT]

Well here comes the memes...



I love the Internet...

OKAY that is some funny stuff there!

 

[sjturner79]

Looks like today is hatch day.

 

[UGLYFOOT]

Holy cow! It took me 30 min to catch up just from not being on since lunch.

When is a good day to candle duck eggs and actually be able to see something? Got 16 khaki Campbell eggs on day 4

7 days for my runner eggs and we had movement on one and veins on another. I will report on day 14 which is saturday

 

[Sahwithchicks]

Oooohhhkay.

GOOD Morning!

I am in. My newly formed plan (and likely unobtainable plan, at that!) Is to hatch EVERYTHING I want to keep for the year. This will be an extreme challenge to my planning skills and somewhat of an engineering feat... but I am going for it. Worst case scenario - I will be sitting in the corner in my incubator/hatching room, hiding under a chair, as chicks fly about causing chaos when I have no room for them all.
I will also need to gently persuade my turkeys, peahens, pheasants and quail to all start laying just a tad earlier... any suggestions

 

[sjturner79]

Oooohhhkay.

GOOD Morning!

I am in. My newly formed plan (and likely unobtainable plan, at that!) Is to hatch EVERYTHING I want to keep for the year. This will be an extreme challenge to my planning skills and somewhat of an engineering feat... but I am going for it. Worst case scenario - I will be sitting in the corner in my incubator/hatching room, hiding under a chair, as chicks fly about causing choas when I have no room for them all.
I will also need to gently persuade my turkeys, peahens, pheasants and quail to all start laying just a tad earlier... any suggestions

My chicks are outside, but slightly overcrowded. To encourage early laying add heat and light.

 

[ronott1]

Oooohhhkay.

GOOD Morning!

I am in. My newly formed plan (and likely unobtainable plan, at that!) Is to hatch EVERYTHING I want to keep for the year. This will be an extreme challenge to my planning skills and somewhat of an engineering feat... but I am going for it. Worst case scenario - I will be sitting in the corner in my incubator/hatching room, hiding under a chair, as chicks fly about causing choas when I have no room for them all.
I will also need to gently persuade my turkeys, peahens, pheasants and quail to all start laying just a tad earlier... any suggestions

You will do fine!

Set up a series of grow out pens and move the hatched chick through them. The last place they go is into your flock at 16 weeks old.

Mine start in rubbermaid tubs, move to a brooder in the garage and then into a larger pen. When they make it to 16 weeks old or so then they move in with the flock or into breeding pens. You just have to time hatches so that they move through the system you set up.

I sell some of them and cockerels are processed.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Here are chicks I just took out of the incubator. There are 14 here and I have pips in the bator, but it was very crowded in there, so I got these guys out. They are isabel leghorns and isbar. There is one brown leghorn in there too.

you KNOW I am jealous!!

LoKo you can give your sign to me.

he will too!

Here are pictures from the NYD hatch batch.They are growing up!





The blue isbar pullet is already getting pretty lacing and the SFH's flowers are starting to bloom!







SFH's and isabel leghorn cockerel.

loveeeeeee

Wouldn't a model of this house make a cool little chicken coop?

lol little?

Quote: oh so cool!! care to share some pics of your silks with us? lol, we wont tell him about your list either

This sign was at HobLob recently.

make one, I often make these with skid wood and give them away

brand new to hatching. Hoping to set my first ones in about a week and then particiapate in this hatch along.

WELCOME!!! glad your with us! and good morning too!

Quote:
Do you really collect salt and pepper shakers or is this something over my head again???

I just realized I'm drinking milk after posting that last post. What the ---- am I doing??? I've got 6 cups of tea waiting for me in the pot!!

Just look what this site is doing to me...

And stop posting people so I can catch up and be relevant!

Bonnie I love your new avy!! so pretty!

Y'know, *she said thoughtfully* since the times for the random posts were already chosen, 'twould be quite funny if all three signs ended up going to people who don't really care. Or all to the same person. Or all three to the same person who doesn't care...

I know right?

Since this is a pretty active thread and yall are experienced hatchets can anyone tell me if I can set eggs that are cold when collected. It's like 20 here and when I collect eggs they're usually cold. Not frozen but cold. Would I be able to hatch them if they get cold?

yes you can just get the to room temps first

Ok I feel bad for Sally... Tomorrow she will be going through 50 pages of one word contest... Lol

I might have to start pulling out my dank memes... Maybe than they would win a sign...

Thank you Nathan, Sally is going to put an end to their fun and they will hate me soon

Now for something else, totally random, for grins and giggles.


How about a couple drawings I did on a 3-subject challenge?

This was a 5 drawing set - free choice of subject, but all 5 in the series were to have the same 3 objects in them (more or less) and each drawing was to stretch for a different feel from the others. Not sure what I did with the last two drawings, right now, but here are the first three of them.

(Moon, Apple/Tree, and Chicken were the 3 things I chose to include in the series. These are the first 3. The 4th one was a chicken jitterbugging with a tree with the moon as a disco ball overhead, blackout background. The last one was an older chicken, head shot from front, beak holding a sprouting apple seed, with the moon behind, surrounding the head. I wanted the chicken to grow up as I moved through the drawings, with the apple tree going backwards through its life - barren tree, fruit bearing, flowering, sapling, seed).

You are simply amazingly talented!!!!

Quote: what a bunch of great breeds too!!! I think someone else was thinking about dorkings, Jack was that you???

Looks like today is hatch day.

awwww congrats!!!

Oooohhhkay.

GOOD Morning!

I am in. My newly formed plan (and likely unobtainable plan, at that!) Is to hatch EVERYTHING I want to keep for the year. This will be an extreme challenge to my planning skills and somewhat of an engineering feat... but I am going for it. Worst case scenario - I will be sitting in the corner in my incubator/hatching room, hiding under a chair, as chicks fly about causing choas when I have no room for them all.
I will also need to gently persuade my turkeys, peahens, pheasants and quail to all start laying just a tad earlier... any suggestions

Welcome!!!!! yes use lighting if you want eggs, just start it slow and they will come

 

[BantyChooks]

YAS

It's a HAL

[COLOR=0000FF]AND YAS YER ALL NUTS!![/COLOR]

[COLOR=800080]I think I'm more of a legume.[/COLOR]

Bwhahaha! Perfect response!

Oooohhhkay.

GOOD Morning!

I am in. My newly formed plan (and likely unobtainable plan, at that!) Is to hatch EVERYTHING I want to keep for the year. This will be an extreme challenge to my planning skills and somewhat of an engineering feat... but I am going for it. Worst case scenario - I will be sitting in the corner in my incubator/hatching room, hiding under a chair, as chicks fly about causing choas when I have no room for them all.
I will also need to gently persuade my turkeys, peahens, pheasants and quail to all start laying just a tad earlier... any suggestions

sounds awesome! Go for it.

you KNOW I am jealous!!

he will too!

loveeeeeee

lol little?

oh so cool!! care to share some pics of your silks with us? lol, we wont tell him about your list either

make one, I often make these with skid wood and give them away

WELCOME!!! glad your with us! and good morning too!


Do you really collect salt and pepper shakers or is this something over my head again???
Bonnie I love your new avy!! so pretty!

I know right?

yes you can just get the to room temps first

Thank you Nathan, Sally is going to put an end to their fun and they will hate me soon

You are simply amazingly talented!!!!

what a bunch of great breeds too!!! I think someone else was thinking about dorkings, Jack was that you???

awwww congrats!!!
Welcome!!!!! yes use lighting if you want eggs, just start it slow and they will come

Mornin dear!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

OK y'all force me to do this, I know you had fun and I had been there done it too at one time, we all know how I love to have fun too, HOWEVER........

NOTICE:
From this post on, all intentional one post comments will be disqualified from any random posting contests.

I pray you all understand the reasoning, thank you for your cooperation and for not calling me a party pooper. Ok you can call me any names you wish AS LONG as they are family friendly.

 

[Sahwithchicks]

What??! You mean crouching in each species pen, trying to imitate their egg song won't work? Darn it all!