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ok maybe this not a" ghost" but fate. yesterday went to pick up our neww heifer ,got her realy cheap,why you got it she is a twin! ok came home checked in eggs in the incubater [sp} and two chicks from one egg. never heard of this before . there was only one egg shell open but 2 chicks! some one help its starting to get bizare ! scared to death to have another baby , twins are a handful. i also talked to a lady who lived in one of the twins cabins ,she was expecting twins but lost one before they moved out. i think i may take a walk up to the grave yard and look around a little more, and see just how many sets died, maybe we are getting close to filling that number.

would like to hear from some one who could help me reseach this house, i found a whole box a deeds pre civil war and since ,in the attic but none are for this house. i just got a feeling to look up there a few weeks after we moved in and way in the back where the logs meet the timbers was a old potato chip filled with 6 cigar boxes of old documents . anyone want to help ?

-- renee oneill (oneillsr@home.com), June 03, 2000

Answers

sounds like fun

-- STAN (sopal@net-port.com), June 03, 2000.

As Kathleen said on the "double yolked eggs" thread just above, double yolked eggs aren't supposed to hatch. However, if you can supply double-yolked eggs reliably you've got a very saleable item. If you can keep track of those two chickens and breed from them, you may be just on the verge of establishing a quite valuable strain of poultry.

-- Don Armstrong (darmst@yahoo.com.au), June 03, 2000.

Renee, I would LOVE to help you research your house! Unfortunitely we are probably miles apart. (I'm in NC) Have you heard of RootsWeb? They're a huge online genealogy site. Most states and even counties are represented. If you go to your county's site I'm sure you could find a local historian who could tell you how to go about your research. Most larger libraries have census records on microfich. Many census records are already on line too thanks to voluntary transcribers.There are also people going around all those long lost grave yards recording the names of those buried there. Many of these are on line too. Tell me where you are and I will get a web address for you. Best wishes, Pauline

-- Pauline Adderley (tworoosters_farm@AltaVista.com), June 04, 2000.

Cool! We tried to hatch out a double yoker once, but it didn't work. Keep us updated on the history of your house! Perhaps you might be able to find out about the house by contacting the former owners. Just a thought...

-- Abigail F. (treeoflife@sws.nb.ca), June 05, 2000.

This twin thing....I think it's the water. Have you considered testing it? Bottling and selling it? Having twins, that is scarier than any ghost story! :)

Laura

-- Laura (gsend@hotmail.com), June 06, 2000.



If you knew who originally lived in the house, you may be able to research that family. There is an e-mail newsletter that my Dad gets, called SUSSEX-PLUS D digest-request@rootsweb.com. It is sort of like a forum, I think. You are able to 'post' a question and there are many, many people that may know something about who you are looking for. Dad has gotten several positive results from his 'posts'.

-- Abigail F. (treeoflife@sws.nb.ca), June 06, 2000.

Look at your abstract for your house , its its history .It will tell you who owned it through the years . Then take the names to your local town offices and library and away you go ! Good luck.

-- Patty Gamble (fodfarms@slic.com), June 06, 2000.

ah ha! Another interesting item. I used to find double-yolked eggs and wished Icould have hatched the chickens. A few years ago, I was into bird breeding (cage birds; cockatiels, budgies, and such) and one of out trade magazines ran a big story on the man whose canary had hatched out twins from one egg. He knew that this particular nest had 4 eggs (breeders usually know even what day they were laid, if they're serious about it) and 5 chicks. Two were much smaller than their siblings (canaries tend to hatch out all on the same day, similarly to chickens). He had to conclude that they were both in the same egg. He was a good, conscientious breeder, and he banded all the babies for identification and he could observe those two ever after acting in tandem on all kinds of things ; such as both ganging up together to rule the flock and be dominant. No other siblings acted in tandem that way in that or any other clutch.

generally speaking, from everything I read at the time, it's not generally easy (if possible) to breed a strain true for releasing double yolks in order to get them shelled together. Nature selects against it (or has in past) because offspring tend to be undersized and unable to compete, but with the assist of humans, well, it's not IMpossible to think you could establish a strain. I believe that there was considerable attempts made at just that some years ago.

I also happened across a program on Tv late one night about a woman who has a farm in England where the animals routinely twin and continue to produce offspring way past what is considered likely. (I'm no cow expert to remember the ages, but I believe that they said they had 20 year old cows calving. Maybe older. A 20 year old mare having a foal is getting more common with good care and feeding, but generally speaking, you won't get much money for a 20-year old broodmare -- her reproductive life is pretty much over, unless you are lucky and get a foal or two). They analyzed the water, and while it seemed to be a good sweet source, clean and with a nice mix of healthy mineral, nothing unusual. I w ondered if it wasn't more to do with selecting out for animals that were longlived and/or prolific at first accidentally, and then increasing in incidence with inbreeding. This is an interesting line. We had one mare that routinely produced twin foals, and the last time, triplets. I have never heard of triplet foals (at least none that survived -- hers didn't), but Luce just kept throwing off folicles at the same time. We noticed that another mare, Delilah, was starting to produce twins as well. This was about the time that I started making sure that they were on better feed and getting supplements instead of just corn and oats, so I am wondering if good nutrition isn't at work. Locally, our deer population is getting fecund -- I've seen three seperate does with triplets for the last three years running. One DNR official has told he he's seen 3 different sow bears with SIX cubs apiece in the area. On the other hand, there is the scary idea that all the plastics and chemical pollutants that are hormone disrupters may be at work.

-- Julie Froelich (firefly1@nnex.net), August 26, 2000.


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