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[Ren2014]

Candled real quick a minute ago, most have drawn down a good bit, others are starting to. And... I lost 2 more

This is so frustrating.

Sorry for the loss. Don't beat yourself up about it. You're doing everything you can.

Megan is right. You are super deduper!!!!

ditto

It is like humans but the hen determines gender--The rooster provide neutral genes so has nothing to do with the gender of the chicks.

O wow, this is very interesting to know.

 

[ronott1]

O wow, this is very interesting to know.

Here is more:

Q: How is sex determined in chickens and what does it mean?

A: In birds, the sex of the embryo is determined by the egg, not the sperm (as it is in humans). Avian sex differentiation is not determined by XY chromosomes like it is in humans and most mammals (or even the XO system used by some insects). In those systems the sex is determined by the sperm, by what the male contributes to the offspring. By contrast, birds have a ZW system of sex determination (shared with butterflies, moths, fish and reptiles). In that system, sex is determined by the female within her ova, and the sex of offspring is not affected at all by the sperm which the male contributes

 

[meganhundley]

Sorry for the loss.  Don't beat yourself up about it.  You're doing everything you can.

ditto

O wow, this is very interesting to know.

Thank you, I really tried to do everything right this time so I could get a good hatch since my first hatch didn't go so well and I didn't want to let myself down again and further damage my incubating confidence but I have a tendency to jump the gun and do things without thinking them over first, like when I washed the eggs But if this hatch flops and I lose most or all of the chicks I have some cheap local CLEAN eggs (a dozen EE and a dozen CCLB) lined up for whenever I want them. I'm thinking of waiting til spring, I just don't know if I can put the bator away, lol.

 

[meganhundley]

That is the last molt for a chick--The Juvenile molt. It is not the first adult molt. He will not do that until next Fall.

Oh ok, so it's normal?

 

[kwhites634]

It is the light that makes them lay, not the temperature--except that they will have a tendency to take a break when it is too hot.

They will live the same amount of time. Chickens usually lay really well for two seasons and then egg production drops of dramatically. A 6 to 10 year old hen will either stop laying eggs all together or will lay a hand full a year.

I realize that temps, other than extreme heat, have no effect on egg production
Never knew a chicken could even live 10 years, let alone still produce eggs once in a while. I've always heard that they were pretty much "laid out" after about 3 years

 

[meganhundley]

Here is more:

Q: How is sex determined in chickens and what does it mean?

A: In birds, the sex of the embryo is determined by the egg, not the sperm (as it is in humans). Avian sex differentiation is not determined by XY chromosomes like it is in humans and most mammals (or even the XO system used by some insects). In those systems the sex is determined by the sperm, by what the male contributes to the offspring. By contrast, birds have a ZW system of sex determination (shared with butterflies, moths, fish and reptiles). In that system, sex is determined by the female within her ova, and the sex of offspring is not affected at all by the sperm which the male contributes

Wow, that is interesting. I always heard modern day birds have more in common with dinosaurs than lizards and other reptiles, this further proves that.

 

[kwhites634]

Wow, that is interesting. I always heard modern day birds have more in common with dinosaurs than lizards and other reptiles, this further proves that.

You ever seen an Assassin Bug? If they aren't prehistoric-looking, I don't know what is.

 

[meganhundley]

You ever seen an Assassin Bug? If they aren't prehistoric-looking, I don't know what is.

I've never seen 1 of those, I'll have to look that up.

 

[meganhundley]

I've never seen 1 of those, I'll have to look that up.

Just looked it up... I really don't like that bug, lol. I thought stink bugs were ugly and gross but that thing has the stink bugs beat!

 

[kwhites634]

Just looked it up... I really don't like that bug, lol. I thought stink bugs were ugly and gross but that thing has the stink bugs beat!

Funny you should say that; only time I've ever seem them eat anything was when one of them was chowing down on a stink bug I'd killed.