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riiight. Because we're a group who can nail down ANYTHING, except for a new coop ;P

Excellent point. So for you, shrink-wrapping only involves the (white) outer membrane, not the (clearish) inner membrane?

Quote: True they are slang, but since we are a community of pleebs who help each other out to the best of our "seat of the pants" ability, can we not create a good, descriptive slang term? Or even find the correct collegiate descriptor and make it part of our idiomatic hatching lexicon?

Quote: Lockdown. I think the wet shrink-wrapping needs another name. Thoughts? Rebel: do you have any input?

Quote: ALL of the incubation, usually. It takes a while for the membrane to lose that much moisture. ...I think. ETA: I am going to stick by this one, as I have eggtopsied eggs I KNOW were dead at lockdown. Even the ones that died at day 10 had the shrink-wrapped look as in the earlier...

Elmer: He put a foot through his yolk sack before it was absorbed. He had unzipped, and the blood and yolk dried, cementing him in there. I helped him out, and nursed him for a week before he died. You can see the blood underneath his egg. Not that all sticky chicks and shrink-wrapped...

FYI: Do not, I repeat, DO NOT google sticky-chick pictures. I am looking ftrhough my pics of Gorilla Snot and Elmer for a good example.

Shrink-wrapping:

Shrink wrapped chicks are stuck--the membrane has dried (and tightened) onto the chick, making it a tight covering. Most shrinkwrapped chicks are shrinkwrapped before pipping. The liquid has evaporated to the point the aircell sack is...well....shrinkwrapped around the chick. It prevents any...