Phyllis and Annamara4 hours, 39 minutes ago
Never before, I should say, it happened to me on the Cuckoo Egg I had. I got lucky, because I had the food out and it still brought the chicks, but it could have been a total disaster, As it is, it cost people who were after my chicks a lot of gold trying to figure out when or if they were still coming with a cracked egg. The alert came before 30 minutes on organic, and the chick and egg hatched from the birdbath at around 36 minutes. Thankfully I was trying to hatch it and had food out for it, because it I hadn't, it still would have hatched from the bird bath and I would have gotten nothing. Supports only reply so far is
"The Birdbath is effectively just another food table. Because of this the chick can visit the birdbath in the same way as it does a regular food table and make the egg hatch. If you don't want it to hatch until you are ready to use low platters, don't also have a filled birdbath in your garden when you have an egg." Totally inadequate in my opinion. I wrote back, and also asked if the gold chicks will come from the bird bath, but they have not answered back since yesterday when I replied. This should be fixed, it should not be an ongoing issue. That turns the bird bath into a hindrance, especially for the gold chicks, but any time is bad.