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

[TJordan]

So

Oh I am excited. I just got done making a fun soap for a hatchalong prize... it has egg in it, so I figured all you poultry folk would enjoy that. I can't post a picture until I cut it, and I can't cut it for a day or so...

cool.
I want to learn that. Humm

new project??!!

 

[TJordan]

I use zip ties, too.  Lots of color choices, can put multiples on each leg, gives lots of variety for marking chicks any way you want.  I snug them down fresh out of the hatcher, making them just barely small enough that the foot can't come through.  Then I swap them out as the chicks age or switch to a wing band when they are a little older.  I've wing banded chicks fresh out of the hatcher, too, but have one every once in a while that will get it over the end of the wing and entrap it, so now I wait a couple weeks.  The leg bands get me through until then, keeping chicks identified for lines.

On my adults, I used to use 9s for pullets and young cockerels, 11s for big roosters.  Now everyone is wing banded, but I'll put a larger zip tie on any individuals I want to tag for some reason and just keep a log with notes on what color/side is which bird.

I put them on my younger hens so I'll know which ones need culling next year. Age wise

 

[Hurley]

Request for help from my hatchalong peeps:

Anyone locally available (or willing to mail) that would give me some "other than chicken" sized eggs for an egg presentation?
I am setting up presentations for my son's first grade class to give weekly through 3 weeks of incubation and hatching eggs in the classroom. The first week of March I will start the eggs for them and give the first presentation to them discussing eggs, in general. I plan to work in the activity for them about diversity, giving them multicolored chicken eggs to each crack open, with the theme that "though we're different on the outside, we're all the same on the inside". We'll talk about different animals that lay eggs and what an egg is. I thought it might be cool to be able to show them various sized eggs from different birds.

Anyone willing to share a goose egg or emu egg or any other "other than chicken" sized egg? Blown out is totally fine, infertile, whatever, just looking to be able to given them something to experience the different eggs out there. Would really love an emu egg and / or ostrich egg, the kids would be so impressed.

Thanks, guys.

 

[Hurley]

Here are images from the presentation, for grins.

 

[TJordan]

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Request for help from my hatchalong peeps:

[COLOR=FF0000]Anyone locally available (or willing to mail) that would give me some "other than chicken" sized eggs for an egg presentation?[/COLOR]
I am setting up presentations for my son's first grade class to give weekly through 3 weeks of incubation and hatching eggs in the classroom.  The first week of March I will start the eggs for them and give the first presentation to them discussing eggs, in general.  I plan to work in the activity for them about diversity, giving them multicolored chicken eggs to each crack open, with the theme that "though we're different on the outside, we're all the same on the inside".  We'll talk about different animals that lay eggs and what an egg is.  I thought it might be cool to be able to show them various sized eggs from different birds.

Anyone willing to share a goose egg or emu egg or any other "other than chicken" sized egg?  Blown out is totally fine, infertile, whatever, just looking to be able to given them something to experience the different eggs out there.  Would really love an emu egg and / or ostrich egg, the kids would be so impressed.

Thanks, guys. 

I love the sharing with young kids. My 8yr old daughter just did a stage by stage video diary of our last hatch. We took pictures, video and gave information for different stages. She will share with her 3rd grade class. I'll look around here for some eggs. Don't forget even many bugs lay eggs. Where are you at? I'll see what I can find

 

[TJordan]

Here are images from the presentation, for grins.

Do you mind if I steal these pictures for my daughters project? This is awesome. Where did you find it!!!???

 

[Poultrybonkers]

I might join this time with goose eggs possibly three. If she lays them in time.

 

[yellowbarn]

Peep!Peep! We're in.

 

[misfit acres]

I might join this time with goose eggs possibly three. If she lays them in time.

Awesome! That's cool!

Peep!Peep! We're in.

Yeah! What are you hatching?

 

[misfit acres]

We candled on day #15 of our test hatch & 8 or our 11 eggs had movement!!! First time incubating on my own & with this incubator. Looking good so far!