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[Ren2014]

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Loretta seems to be a bit better this morning. She is preening, eating and drinking. She was also scratching. This is an improvement to yesterday. I think I will put some rooster booster in their water today. Her comb still seems a bit pale.

So happy to hear she is better!

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OMG!!! I just heard the sweetest little peeps coming from inside the bator, I looked through the window and no pips yet but atleast 1 has pipped internally, hopefully more than 1

AWESOME! Fingers crossed for happy hatches

He probably owns his stock, but the birds themselves haven't been domesticated. Domestication takes years and years. For example, a tiger can be born in a zoo and live in the zoo and have its own cubs in the zoo, but the tiger and its cubs aren't domesticated, even though they have been in captivity their whole lives. Same with the mandarins - we can own them and breed them and they've been in captivity their whole lives, but they are not domesticated

At what point do they become or do they become domesticated? Is there a semi-domesticated??

 

[Pyxis]

At what point do they become or do they become domesticated?  Is there a semi-domesticated??

You might be interested in checking out the study they did on red foxes in Russia where they domesticated them. They selected for friendliness towards humans and a desire to interact with them, which is pretty much what it means to be domesticated. Within 20 generations, a good chunk of the foxes born were very friendly to humans, displaying behaviors such as wagging their tails at humans when they passed by, whimpering to gain human attention, and sniffing and licking at their handlers. Now, 50 years later, 80% of the foxes born in the program display these traits.

Interestingly, the domestication selection also seemed to select for some physical traits over others, such as a black spotted coat.

 

[frmboyinthecity]

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So happy to hear she is better!

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AWESOME! Fingers crossed for happy hatches

At what point do they become or do they become domesticated? Is there a semi-domesticated??

Domestication has more to do with the entire species, rather than just few animals that may be tamed. Here is an interesting article.

http://www.livescience.com/33870-domesticated-animals-criteria.html

 

[lazy gardener]

I really want to especially since I heard peeping but I don't want to jinx it now that I know atleast 1 is doing something, lol.

Megan. Where is your chair???

What was the nutrition experiment?
I read that since they are not native here, you don't need a permit.
It's legal to raise them. So I don't know?

that's great news!! Now you can hurry up and wait for a pip! The waiting during hatching just kills me!
I have to look that up!! I was just talking to my neighbor about them and he said that he used to have them!!! But they always died within 6 months of him buying them (I'm not surprised). They are so beautiful but I just don't think they would be practical with kids. I want to see that video!! The babies are so cute!!

It's part of my gender selection thread. In addition to selecting eggs according to shape, which was a success, I put the flock on multi-vits prior to collecting eggs for hatch. It was a dismal hatch, a lot of fully developed, DIS. IMO, the chicks grew too big to successfully pip. I hatched (If I recall correctly, 19/28, with 25 going into lock down.)

 

[frmboyinthecity]

Megan. Where is your chair???

It's part of my gender selection thread. In addition to selecting eggs according to shape, which was a success, I put the flock on multi-vits prior to collecting eggs for hatch. It was a dismal hatch, a lot of fully developed, DIS. IMO, the chicks grew too big to successfully pip. I hatched (If I recall correctly, 19/28, with 25 going into lock down.)

If this is a dismal hatch, may I be cursed with many such dismal hatches...

 

[WalnutHill]

@WalnutHill thank you for meeting me and bringing some chicken eggs to hatch. Fingers crossed for some babies next month!

You are very welcome! May this be the start of many happy hatches!

 

[OldMissionChick]

You are very welcome!  May this be the start of many happy hatches!

Thanks I hope so!

 

[Ren2014]

You might be interested in checking out the study they did on red foxes in Russia where they domesticated them. They selected for friendliness towards humans and a desire to interact with them, which is pretty much what it means to be domesticated. Within 20 generations, a good chunk of the foxes born were very friendly to humans, displaying behaviors such as wagging their tails at humans when they passed by, whimpering to gain human attention, and sniffing and licking at their handlers. Now, 50 years later, 80% of the foxes born in the program display these traits.

Interestingly, the domestication selection also seemed to select for some physical traits over others, such as a black spotted coat.

WOW fascinating. I just researched semi-domisticated and found that MY CAT is only semi-domesticated.

Domestication has more to do with the entire species, rather than just few animals that may be tamed. Here is an interesting article.

http://www.livescience.com/33870-domesticated-animals-criteria.html

Checking it out now. Thank you.

 

[Ren2014]

I just took the boot off. There is a bend in its toe but it is 100% better from the curl. Little one is walking around just fine. Do I need to put one back on or worry about the toe curling again? She's 4 days old today.

 

[lazy gardener]

Any chance you can get that bend corrected with several more days of boot? Are you able to easily position it correctly with your fingers?