November 16th Hatch Day - 5 hatched - DONE

[MichiganWoods]

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that actualllly makes a lot of sence and seems really smart, i see a science project in the making XD you should test that

I probably will try it out, though it will be hard to do until my chicks grow up and start laying.

 

[hnbubz]

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that actualllly makes a lot of sence and seems really smart, i see a science project in the making XD you should test that

I probably will try it out, though it will be hard to do until my chicks grow up and start laying.

do you think twins are genetic in chickens as they are in people?

 

[MichiganWoods]

I honestly don't know. But I've heard a lot of people say that particular hens of theirs will repeatedly lay double yolks.

 

[hnbubz]

that would be relly cool

 

[pbjmaker]

They will not be identical twins though - just fraternal. Two yolks = two different chicken genetics. They would only be identical if a single yolk split.

 

[MichiganWoods]

pbjmaker is right.

And my theory may have already been blown out of the water by Rebecca (whom I adore!).

She successfully hatched her twins.


Update: I took my eggs off of the turner because one of them is beginning to rock quite a bit. And I thought I heard peeping.

(You guys should see the third incubator I'm working on... constructed it out of plexi-glass windows so that we could all see inside without having to open it up. It's large enough that my hovabator turner fits in it too.)

 

[rubyv67]

Morning Michigan woods! Good luck!

My life is so complicated lately all this chicken excitement is a nice diversion. I homeschool and Rebecca's video was wonderful life science. I hope you can film yours, too. Can't wait to see the plexi 'bator.

 

[larlar23]

i was going to have nine bron on sunday but five came early. i have a hen setting on them. and how can i tell if they are boys or if they are girls

 

[Jamie821]

stretch their wing out and look at the two rows of quills where the feather grow out of. If the quills are straight and the same length roo if they are uneven like long on short on and so on pullet

 

[larlar23]

thank you,
can it be check any time or does it have to be in the first three day of life?