1) this has happened to me twice so far I have set up copper pots filled with water and filled with birch bark added fuel to the fire and lit it checked that the progress bar was moving and then went to bed and logged off next day I go to take my tanning fluid and find that there is just water in the copper pot and the birch bark he's like I just pulled it off the tree.
2) so last night the 17th of December just before logging off for the night I looked at my turkey coup at the one egg in there it's looks like it had 3/4 hatched I.e. the progress bar was 3/4 field login in today the 18th the progress has been removed it look like it was a couple of days ago fresh out the hen.