Valentine's Day Hatch

[Melissa Rose]

Here's my entry for the funny caption contest.

Deb

 

[Melissa Rose]

My chickens sharing a banana slice- my entry for the video contest!!!

Are they orps? They are so pretty

 

[Melissa Rose]

Here's my funny caption contest submission:

 

[Melissa Rose]

My celebrity look-alike contest entry!!!

They obviously have the same makeup assistant

 

[Melissa Rose]

Ever since the idea of a celebrity-chicken look-a-like contest I can't stop seeing celebrities when I look at my chickens. It's fun.

Howwww funny

 

[Melissa Rose]

Still need entries for the mini-video contest.

Here's a small sample. (No chickens were hurt in this video). I have a small fence that I move around to mainly let the silkies free range in different areas every week. The bigger chickens just walk right over the fence. I was trying to get that on tape because it's kinda cute when one of my BOs walked up it and got her toe hung. I was mortified expecting her to freak out flapping and break her leg, but she hung there calmly until I released her toe.

Edited to NOTE: I spelled Chicken wrong! LOL

Here she is after I released her.

She's beauteous

 

[RareBreedFancier]

Ok, I know some of you are fretting about unplugged incubators so I'll let you know what happened here. I had a broody sitting in the main layer coop as I need more broody pens. She'd been sitting well then we had a huge thunderstorm come through unexpectedly and where she'd chosen to sit she wasn't undercover. (It's been baking hot here and since it was shady I'd left her sit there) Well she got drowned and her nest got wet so I hastely rigged up a roof for her and gave her new dry bedding. All was well. Next evening I check them and one of the other hens has kicked her out and scattered her eggs everywhere and had a dustbath in her new nest. Momma hen was busy rolling her eggs back into the nest and making angry clucks so I left her too it thinking she'd be back on shortly. Check next morning and she's off eating and most of the eggs are back where they should be. Since the broodies often get off to see if I've brought treats I don't worry about the ones in the nest but think the others will be gone now anyway as it had been cold overnight. I'd have rounded them up then but DH wanted to go shopping so that afternoon when I got back I check again in momma hen is walking around the coop showing no interest in her nest and her eggs have been kicked everywhere again! Go in with a bucket to collect them thinging there is no way they will have survived a cold wet day out of the nest and while collecting them I accidentally broke one of the eggs and it had a live baby in it! Very carefully rounded up the rest of the freezing cold, wet, muddy eggs up and raced in to candle them. After a quick rub over with a hot damp cloth I looked and had 8 with veins! Hastily moved them into the 'bator and crossed my fingers. Candled that night and 6 were still but two were waving at me! Candled last night and all 8 were wiggling around in there!

So don't give up on chilled eggs! I have no idea if these chicks will hatch but they are looking good right now.

 

[featherz]

I candled today.. tossed a second oozer (EWW) and four clears.. two are still questionable, so left those in, but marked so I can check those for oozing. So counting the two iffy's I have 25 eggs still going out of the 30 I started with.

 

[Sumatra503]

Hey, guys I'm back from a long bit of crazyness!

My official number of eggs set is 64, though I may have counted wrong. I threw out my first oozer and haven't candled.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Ok so I failed and couldn't decide on a winner for the celeb look alike contest. Each entrant had someone at work that clearly favored it. As we actually had real work to do, I tabled it and decided to do a BYC poll.

It'll close in a few days or whenever I see a clear pattern of winnerhood.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...avorite-chicken-celeb-look-alike#post_8346070