Statistics

I did the egg postmortem tonight. Never again. Those eggs were pretty ripe. The local racoon clan will love them though.

As you know, we had 9 out of 36 hatch. Of those 27 that did not hatch, 12 had partially formed keets. That leaves 15 infertile. Something is not right here; there should've been only about 4 infertile eggs (90% expected hatch rate).

Here's a demonstration of the keet's growth rate. In this first picture you see a wing with about 1/2" of feather growth. It was taken exactly one week ago:


Today is the same bird, but with feathers about 3" long:


For the metrically inclined, that's about 1 cm. feather growth per day. I am not giving them steroids, I swear.

The fingernail polish I had been using keeps rubbing off, so I'm now using zip ties with the binary encoding painted on. Here's 0101 (Ptitsa):