- Apr 27, 2007
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FutureChickenMan ,
As you quoted me in your post, it appears that you are attempting to make some sort of argument against my statements. However, there was no new content contained within your post and the content itself has either been, disproven, is not in dispute, or is based on assumptions for which you do not have the facts to back up your claims.
I do welcome a valid argument that disproves any of the statements I have made, but you have not done that and as I have already addressed those statements that are in dispute, the need to readdress them is moot.
I will however clarify a few things about my assertions that seem to have been overlooked, despite the fact that I have stated them more then once.
Xanthophyll, contaned in egg yolk, effects the coloring of a chicks skin, shanks, fat, and beak, but does not affect the color of the chicks fluff (down).
This effect is only visable in a chick that does not have strong pigmentation to begin with.
It doesn't matter if you have a chick that has white fluff, red fluff or purple fluff, the egg yolk is not going to affect it's feathers, but if it has the lightly colord skin, shanks etc, it can often be affected by the xanthophyll pigment dereived from the egg yolk.
Secondly, unless we know exactly what the teacher was thinking and the exact words that he used, and how attentive Dinos_rock was in listening to him, we cannot know his true meaning, as presented to us in the words "Anyways, my teacher said that the reason chicks are yellow, is because the yolk is yellow. "
Please note that the words "feather","down", or "fluff" are not used in the sentance. Any assumption that makes the assertion that he meant chick fluff is affected by the pigmentation of egg yolk is speculation and not based in fact
However missleading or incomplete this statement may be on it's own, it is accurate, and without context, any assumptions that assert his full meaning is invalid.
Lastly, in the picture you posted your caption reads
"These chicks must not have had very good yolks."
Although several of the chicks in the photo have dark pigmentation which would hide any effects of xanthophyll, and despite the resolution of the photo, it does appear that you have a cuckoo chick that is expressing some yellow in it's beak, and since we know that chickens do not produce yellow pigmentation, it would follow that they may indeed have had good yolks.
As you quoted me in your post, it appears that you are attempting to make some sort of argument against my statements. However, there was no new content contained within your post and the content itself has either been, disproven, is not in dispute, or is based on assumptions for which you do not have the facts to back up your claims.
I do welcome a valid argument that disproves any of the statements I have made, but you have not done that and as I have already addressed those statements that are in dispute, the need to readdress them is moot.
I will however clarify a few things about my assertions that seem to have been overlooked, despite the fact that I have stated them more then once.
Xanthophyll, contaned in egg yolk, effects the coloring of a chicks skin, shanks, fat, and beak, but does not affect the color of the chicks fluff (down).
This effect is only visable in a chick that does not have strong pigmentation to begin with.
It doesn't matter if you have a chick that has white fluff, red fluff or purple fluff, the egg yolk is not going to affect it's feathers, but if it has the lightly colord skin, shanks etc, it can often be affected by the xanthophyll pigment dereived from the egg yolk.
Secondly, unless we know exactly what the teacher was thinking and the exact words that he used, and how attentive Dinos_rock was in listening to him, we cannot know his true meaning, as presented to us in the words "Anyways, my teacher said that the reason chicks are yellow, is because the yolk is yellow. "
Please note that the words "feather","down", or "fluff" are not used in the sentance. Any assumption that makes the assertion that he meant chick fluff is affected by the pigmentation of egg yolk is speculation and not based in fact
However missleading or incomplete this statement may be on it's own, it is accurate, and without context, any assumptions that assert his full meaning is invalid.
Lastly, in the picture you posted your caption reads
"These chicks must not have had very good yolks."
Although several of the chicks in the photo have dark pigmentation which would hide any effects of xanthophyll, and despite the resolution of the photo, it does appear that you have a cuckoo chick that is expressing some yellow in it's beak, and since we know that chickens do not produce yellow pigmentation, it would follow that they may indeed have had good yolks.
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