Minnesota!

[lalaland]

it is so gorgeous out! bogtown, I haven't had a hard frost either. The squash and pumpkin vines bit the dust, but the green beans are still at it.

Spent a few minutes in the sun pulling up the vines, and that was about all I had energy for. A little frustrating to be sick on a day like this. I could have probably done a whole days work ( on a computer) but couldn't face the commute while not feeling so hot. Too bad I couldn't convince my boss to let me work from home And...we have a big meeting packet to go out Monday, but it won't go on time now since I've been off two days and don't have my stuff in. Oh well!

Chickens are happy to be in the garden supervising, and digging in the potato bed - it is all loose dirt since I harvested on wednesday.

 

[duluthralphie]

Hey @Minniechickmama , I heard you can sex eggs! Amazing! Kidding I was reading a forum a few days back on how some folks think incubator temperatures/humidity can determine the sex of the chicks. I guess I don't have an opinion on it. Nothing surprises me nowadays.

People believing that think chickens are reptiles.

The hen has the sex chromosome as I recall it is a WZ where as in humans it is XY. I learned this in the last year or so..... SO I have to share it. I think I learned this when some one made the temperature determines sex claim.





Sex chromosomes and sex determining mechanisms in birds.Stevens L.AbstractThe sex chromosomes in birds are designated Z and W, and the male is the homomorphic sex (ZZ) and the female heteromorphic (ZW). In most avian species the Z chromosome is a large chromosome, usually the fourth or fifth largest, and it contains almost all the known sex-linked genes. The W chromosome is generally a much smaller microchromosome, containing a high proportion of repeat sequence DNA. Recently a gene encoding a protein involved in transcriptional activation of chromatin has been detected on the W chromosome. The weight of evidence suggests that sex determination in birds is by a genic balance mechanism, in which the ratio of autosomes to Z chromosomes is the crucial factor. DNA sequences homologous to the testis determining factor in humans have been detected in both male and female birds, but it is not clear that they have a sex-related function in birds. A number of different practical methods have been developed to distinguish the sex of birds, based on sex-linked genes, the amount of DNA per cell and using DNA probes for sex-linked sequences.

Quoted from:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9354761

 

[lalaland]

ok, ralphie, I'm deducting 10 points from your redneck score.

 

[duluthralphie]

ok, ralphie, I'm deducting 10 points from your redneck score.

Why?? Is there a rule somewhere that rednecks can't have an IQ higher than a oven light bulb?

 

[lalaland]

oven light is fine. Outdoor stadium light is fine. Airplane tower search lights are fine. Nova's? nah.

 

[lalaland]

ps: its probably the same rule as the one about soccer leagues, or whatever league it was that someone was playing on ....

 

[duluthralphie]

ps: its probably the same rule as the one about soccer leagues, or whatever league it was that someone was playing on ....

Soccer breaks all rules of rednecks. Now playing soccer with a dead skunk instead of a ball, would give you instant access to the club.

 

[scandiafowl]

ok, ralphie, I'm deducting 10 points from your redneck score.

You are being easy on him.

 

[scandiafowl]

Why??  Is there a rule somewhere that rednecks can't have an IQ higher than a oven light bulb?

A redneck does not go to the NCBI for info, they talk to their neighbor, who is most likely a relative. The relative who made it to eighth grade.

 

[duluthralphie]

Here is my redneck approved bench top plucker.