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[Sassymygirl]

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It makes me think of some blonde valley girl cheerleader saying.... "YAYYYY! O-M-G we are like, SOOOOO going into lockdown."

LMAO!

 

[featherbaby]

What about: "Full term Seclusion" ?

 

[cluckcluck42]

What about "Shutdown" or maybe "Hoe down"?

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! I'm not a fan of 'silly nicknames' for common occurances.
It's "Day 18 through hatch" here --- but if it reminds/reinforces someone NOT to open the incubator til hatch is done --- then that's a good thing.
Life is to short to be bugged by such a thing.
Has someone shown up at your house when you were incubating eggs and said "Hey! It's getting late Day 17. You'd better put those eggs in LOCKDOWN soon or they won't hatch!"
I don't see why other people using 'made-up terminology' would be bothersome to you, if it emphasizes what needs to be done to get chicks-a-hatching.

Lisa

 

[joe17]

I think that the term is pretty funny too! I say day 18 and if you are experienced enough you will know what that thats when I cant open the incubator because of humidity. But like dipsy doodle doo said, they can call it whatever they want but either way, it is still funny and a bit annoying. lol The term lockdown does remind me of jails and like a bad storm coming our way and we have to yell LOCKDOWN so every one will stay put in the house.

 

[chickenguru]

Idon't really care for it as far as incubating is concerned I guess because I ignore it a great deal. Peronally I think "lockdown" is just a tad overrated and intimidates lots of people who incubate eggs.
Probably the only thing that I observe those last 3 days is the raising of the humidity and to stop turning the eggs. I just call it hatching time.

 

[Jamie_Dog_Trainer]

Never bothered me to see the term lockdown, though I would rather say "last three days of incubation.." or whatever. I have never incubated anything.

BUT I DO hate the term 'bator. That makes my skin crawl. Its so irritating to me, like calling a refridgerator a 'dgerator. Idk... LOL

 

[speckledhen]

Oh, I dunno. Guess they didn't like my own term I had before that. IBW= Intense Bator (or Broody) Watch.

Or, better known as The Last Three Days.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! IBW makes me think of an intestinal disorder.

Lisa

 

[JetBlack]

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And once the chicks are out of the shells, does it become an excubator? I bet not!

At job sites, most grunts refer to machines by their manufacturer, unless you have more than one. We have two Toyota forklifts. A big, propane one and a little electric one.

The electric one is "Tinkerbell" and the other one is generally referred to as "The big forklift" but the name Beulah is written on the back.

The machines are "The Arburg", "The Minster", "The press", etc. We have probably 50 machines and for a while I wanted to give them names like boats or hurricanes. Women's names in alphabetical order, starting at the front door. It has to be easier for the new guy to find "Clarice" (he'd know it's the third machine in from the front door) than to have you describe the thing to him, relative to other things he doesn't know about. Like getting directions from the old lady who is a veteran of the town. "How do I find the Taco Bell?"

"You go down the 5 to the corner where Granny's Yarn Barn used to be. That burned down in '52. Then you go up old man Johnson's driveway. They changed it to a state road back, after the war, don'cherknow. Then you turn left at the Thrift Shack. The sign blew down in ought two but you can't miss it."