Challenge: Hatching The Impossible!!!!!

[MysteryChicken]

That doesn't match what I've read.

I've read that the creeper gene causes very short legs, in Japanese Bantams and Scots Dumpies and some other breeds. And that chicks who get two copies of the creeper gene die in the eggs, at some point before hatching. But Scots Dumpies are certainly bigger than bantams, so the creeper (short-leg) gene apparently does not cause dwarfism. And the chicks that have two copies of the gene and die, do it before they hatch, not a few weeks later. So I think something else was going on with your silkie chick.

Some places that I have read about the creeper gene:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_bantam
https://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Dumpy/DumpyRussellJune03.html
http://sellers.kippenjungle.nl/page3.html

Okay, weird, because I read somewhere the creeper gene is a dwarf gene .

 

[MysteryChicken]

That doesn't match what I've read.

I've read that the creeper gene causes very short legs, in Japanese Bantams and Scots Dumpies and some other breeds. And that chicks who get two copies of the creeper gene die in the eggs, at some point before hatching. But Scots Dumpies are certainly bigger than bantams, so the creeper (short-leg) gene apparently does not cause dwarfism. And the chicks that have two copies of the gene and die, do it before they hatch, not a few weeks later. So I think something else was going on with your silkie chick.

Some places that I have read about the creeper gene:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_bantam
https://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Dumpy/DumpyRussellJune03.html
http://sellers.kippenjungle.nl/page3.html

Okay, I got them backwards.

 

[NatJ]

There are so many genes, it is easy to get them mixed up! Especially if you learn about other kinds of animals too.

Rabbits do have a dwarf gene where one copy makes a dwarf, two copies makes a rabbit that is born alive but looking odd and dies fairly young.

 

[MysteryChicken]

There are so many genes, it is easy to get them mixed up! Especially if you learn about other kinds of animals too.

Rabbits do have a dwarf gene where one copy makes a dwarf, two copies makes a rabbit that is born alive but looking odd and dies fairly young.

Yeah, true.

That's interesting.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Here are the three.
The other 2 are officially dead, & the other is a yolker.

# 1, is still going strong.

 

[Lydia Huizenga]

 

[MGG]

Here are the three.
The other 2 are officially dead, & the other is a yolker.

# 1, is still going strong.
View attachment 2241306

That's too bad. Come on #1! You can do it!

 

[MysteryChicken]

That's too bad. Come on #1! You can do it!

Number 1 is the size of a jelly bean now.

 

[MysteryChicken]

The little jelly bean is bobbing.

 

[MGG]

The little jelly bean is bobbing.

Aw! Is it doing good? Did you set any other micros? My very first broody just hatched her 4 chicks! They're all mixed breeds, but adorable. Do you know anything about sexing pea combed chicks by the rows of peas? They aren't purebred so I'm guessing it won't work, but just wondered. The broody is my 8 month old BLRW pullet. She's doing awesome so far. Very sweet and attentive to the chicks.