Why are my broody hens' eggs hatching too early?

[rosawoodsii]

GM corn has been known to cause birth defects and sterility problems in cattle. The pollen also kills Monarch butterflies. Perhaps it causes a problem with chick development as well.

 

[macmama]

I wonder if I should just expect my chicks 2-3 days early? My last ones hatched at 19 days and this time it's even hotter outside.

 

[kuntrygirl]

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Yeppers.

 

[kuntrygirl]

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What is GM corn?

 

[dragonchick]

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I think you are confusing the humidity with the temperature. If the humidity had been 108 you would have been trying to hatch in pure water. Temp is measured in degrees, humidity is measured in percent. Right now the temp outside my house is 89 degrees and the humidity is 50%. Its rather warm and sticky at the moment.

 

[rosawoodsii]

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genetically modified. The term is reserved for cells modified by introduction of non-related biological material, not by selective breeding. The problem is that the method is very crude. It's not done by carefully splicing genes into a particular place on the DNA strand.

They "shoot" the material into the cells and have no idea which allele it will end up at. Different place, different genes, different results Genetic roulette.

 

[kuntrygirl]

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I think you are confusing the humidity with the temperature. If the humidity had been 108 you would have been trying to hatch in pure water. Temp is measured in degrees, humidity is measured in percent. Right now the temp outside my house is 89 degrees and the humidity is 50%. Its rather warm and sticky at the moment.

The term (humidity) is what we use in our neck of the woods to indicate how hot it really is outside. When our local radio news is on he always says the temperature and then ends by saying that the humidity makes it feel like it's ( ?? degrees). You all may not use those terms in your neck of the woods but we do.

 

[PunkinPeep]

I don't think the early hatching is the problem with the development necessarily. I only say so because out of 6 hatches, i have had 5 hatch on day 19, and all but maybe one or two of those chicks were normal and healthy. And most of these were before it got hot - in early spring.

 

[dragonchick]

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I think you are confusing the humidity with the temperature. If the humidity had been 108 you would have been trying to hatch in pure water. Temp is measured in degrees, humidity is measured in percent. Right now the temp outside my house is 89 degrees and the humidity is 50%. Its rather warm and sticky at the moment.

The term (humidity) is what we use in our neck of the woods to indicate how hot it really is outside. When our local radio news is on he always says the temperature and then ends by saying that the humidity makes it feel like it's ( ?? degrees). You all may not use those terms in your neck of the woods but we do.

We use the term "heat index" for what it really feels like. This is a combination of the actual heat and the humidity.

 

[kuntrygirl]

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The term (humidity) is what we use in our neck of the woods to indicate how hot it really is outside. When our local radio news is on he always says the temperature and then ends by saying that the humidity makes it feel like it's ( ?? degrees). You all may not use those terms in your neck of the woods but we do.

We use the term "heat index" for what it really feels like. This is a combination of the actual heat and the humidity.

You know what? You're absolutely right! What was I thinking. That's the term. I guess the heat is frying my brain. I don't know why I typed humidity. You are correct. The term is "heat index". Thanks for pointing that out to me. And the heat index was 110 yesterday.