New BYC Incubation Term.. IBW (PIPS! A CHICK!)

[lacyloo]

good luch yall

 

[midoris]

My daughter and I are sitting at my mother's house right now, watching our eggs at home through the webcam I set up this morning. We can hear tapping, but no peeping. I'm not seeing any rocking... this is driving us crazy!

For everyone else it's the most boring show on TV...

 

[Farmer Kitty]

Good luck with the hatch! You know the saying "A watched pot never boils", don't over watch the bator-you'll delay the hatch!

 

[speckledhen]

Isn't that " A watched egg never pips"?

Actually, every time I leave the second bdrm, where the Hova is with that last lone straggler egg still incubating, I have to pass the low table with the Fridge-a-Bator hatcher and I take a quick look as I go into the greatroom. Sure hope these babies dont take as long to hatch as the Blue Orps did. They make me wait every time!

 

[Farmer Kitty]

You got it! I don't know how you guys do it. Knowing within a day or two when they should hatch has got to be nerve racking. Cows you have due dates but, they can come a week or two either side of that date and you don't have all that energy involved with temp reg. and candling, etc. and it can be frustrating enough.

 

[speckledhen]

Well, I tell you, Kitty, if I have a broody in the spring, I'll be a happy camper! I love that and have only been able to watch a hen raise her chicks one time. What you bet my broody is one of the Blue Orps I need hatching eggs from to send to other people?!

 

[Fancy Feather Poultry]

Pip?

 

[speckledhen]

Good eye! But, nope, it fooled me, too. It's just a mark of some kind on the egg.

 

[rooster-red]

We're on IBW here too...


Intense broody watch!

Of course its harder for me to see anything being that theres no window!

 

[speckledhen]

See? It works for both! Handy little term I came up with, isn't it? How is beautiful Iris? LOVE your frozen rooster avatar, Lee, LOL!