Mahonri's 2nd Annual NYDHatch, watching them grow...

[dsqard]

OMG it took me like two hours to catch up from a little over 24 hours ago! You all have been soooooo busy! Well the skiing adventure yesterday was fun but it was seriously cooooooold up there. It didn't go over 0 degrees. I am not one to be out in the cold at all and the last time we went skiing (which was my first time skiing) it was around 30 degrees. With all the layers of clothes I had on at 30 degrees I was comfortable. Yesterday not so much. I called it quits and went inside around 1:30. I was just shivering too much. DH and my boss made it for about another hour. Got home around 4 PM, checked the bator and nothing. Did my barn chores, went to the boss' house for dinner, came home checked the bator and nothing. Took a hot soak in the jetted tub, had a glass of wine got out of the tub checked the bator and nothing. I wanted to check up on the thread but was exhausted and finally warm and since I didn't even have a pip then, figured I was out of the running on the first chick to hatch after midnight so went to bed. Woke up around 11:30 with a throbbing knee (yeah I biffed it a few times yesterday

) and went back to sleep. Woke up around 2:30 because of the knee again and went back to sleep. Got up around 4:30 this morning. Hobbled over to the bator and still nothing. No peeping, no pips and no zips. So now two hours later I have finally caught up on this crazy thread

and still have eggs that look like I just put them in to the bator. Looks like the only contest I will win (sooooo close on the callendar!

congrats Murano Farms!) is the die hard contest. Trying not to get too discouraged and staying away from the bator so I am not tempted to open it. Congratulations to all the new chickies out there! I will probably be hobbling back and forth to the bator all day hoping to see any pippage. I should have known that picking up a sport like skiing over the age of 40 (not gonna say how much past 40

) was going to cause some aches and pains!

Oh well it is just too much fun to give up and it looks like the Allieves I took are helping.

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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Nope, that was a word my mom used many many years ago when I was a kid.

eta that's when someone usually a non player helps out a player.

Oh, how funny!! I've never heard it used in conjunction with card playing!! It's actually a yiddish word and means to offer unwanted and/or meddlesome advice or help. Also used by many to mean talkative or chatty. My mom used the word when I was a kid too.

Awesome! I have learned a new word & its meaning! Good start to 2011!

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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I always sample the wine I cook with

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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[SteveH]

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[ChickyChickyBaby]

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One heck of a start to 2011!

 

[jenjscott]

To everyone who is worried about their hatches (or rather non hatches): it is way too early to worry! Remember, the end of day 21 isn't even here until noon today. Everyone else is early!!!!

 

[SteveH]

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OK , thanks .

 

[dsqard]

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I know this but it doesn't stop me from worrying

Really hoping to see a pip today. Right now all I can think is that I screwed this up somehow. Got my

that my temps were lower than I thought (all I have been going on was the read out on the bator and it has stayed pretty steady at 99.6) and they are just running late. It is hard not to worry though.

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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Top thermometer you are using is same one I use for spot checks. Cannot remember where I got it though - I like it best...only wish it would read humidity inside the bator with the little wire thingy