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I agree! with the chicken pullet egg scenario in that the nature "blueprint" (genes) defines the maximum size of the adult bird- within 3 standard deviations
, does that make sense? then ya got nurture... feed, water, heat, light, to reach those available max's. hard to explain without me waving my hands around
case in point, I currently have a simple project underway with white Quail, in that I am only hatching the uniformly larger eggs- single yolks (~14grams). admittedly, we are dealing with apples to watermelons as compared to Quail/Chickens, we are weighing at the 8 week mark.
I bring this up cause I know you have some worldly experience in there too. I am thinking that an average 9 gram egg chick is 9/14 the size of the larger 14 gram egg chick at birth, and that over the shorter 8 week span, the birds may be larger? again- apples to watermelons... but wanted to chip in .02 and put it on the list to talk about when I get to see ya again
I agree! with the chicken pullet egg scenario in that the nature "blueprint" (genes) defines the maximum size of the adult bird- within 3 standard deviations
case in point, I currently have a simple project underway with white Quail, in that I am only hatching the uniformly larger eggs- single yolks (~14grams). admittedly, we are dealing with apples to watermelons as compared to Quail/Chickens, we are weighing at the 8 week mark.
I bring this up cause I know you have some worldly experience in there too. I am thinking that an average 9 gram egg chick is 9/14 the size of the larger 14 gram egg chick at birth, and that over the shorter 8 week span, the birds may be larger? again- apples to watermelons... but wanted to chip in .02 and put it on the list to talk about when I get to see ya again