The 6th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[Cynthia12]

Even Bill Nye the science guy spent about 4 minutes discussing it on Ronan Farrow Daily.
At least that was after he discussed the newly discovered black hole that's 12 BILLION times more massive than the sun.


1200?

What? Me? This had my name in your Quote. What did I say..1200...

 

[Math]

I have chicken eggs in my LG incubator due to go on lockdown tomorrow. Wish me luck and blessings.

Also, I have duck eggs in my homemade incubator. The duck eggs came from a duck nest I found in the backyard by a palm tree down beside the lake. The duck began setting on the eggs on last Saturday (6 days ago) when I missed her. On Tuesday 3 days later she abandoned the nest when a cold weather front came through with heavy rain and very cold weather. The duck stayed on the lake swimming with the other ducks and the duck eggs got very cold. That night I moved the eggs to my homemade incubator and tonight 3 nights later I see development in some of the eggs.

Now I'm wondering if I should have left the eggs alone and see if the duck would have returned to the nest later that night or the next day. I didn't know that eggs could partially incubate and last that long and that cold and wet and still develop. Does anybody have any thoughts on this?

 

[Cynthia12]

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-color-dress/


So, this is supposed to explain it all.

 

[Cynthia12]

Hatch rates will be lower for eggs older than 2 weeks. Shipped eggs should not be older than 7 days because of the added stress from shipping.

Older eggs will still hatch--I would not set eggs older than 30 days and if I did I would watch them very closely for rotting.

Thank you ron for this information!

 

[Cynthia12]

GOOD NIGHT!

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

I particularly love this thread due to all the enablers and fellow chicken mathematicians all in one location. Yay. I found my home.

 

[ozexpat]

add all your chickens (secretly at first)
minus roosters
minus non laying pullets
minus broodies
minus chicks
minus any grow outs
minus 10% loss due to future predators or illness
minus any you have for sale
minus those you are thinking about selling
minus any selected for freezer camp
calculate how many you have left.
thats REALLY how many chickens you have!!
You can further reduce by 40-60% if you have bantams

and if the birds lay less than 5 eggs a week, reduce 10% for each egg below par.

 

[suebgbr]

I have minus 20.
I suppose I should go out and buy some. If I buy 20 that means I take it back to zero!

 

[suebgbr]

Can anyone cross post the post of the photoshopped dress off the 'random ramblings' thread? It's near the end. My phone won't take it.
It shows the three colours people see. I always got the middle one, blue and brown.

 

[mlm Mike]

The participant list is up to date to post1929.
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I'm gone until Sunday, or possibly Monday. Have a great weekend everyone.