(June 21, 2023 at 3:03 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(June 21, 2023 at 2:29 pm)R-Farmer Wrote: where you get 300? do you have book chapter and verse to support this number?
Maybe you oughta read and familiarize yourself with the story starting in gen 6 before you start trying to represent it.
40 days and 40 nights.
chicken eggs hatch in 21 days
duck eggs hatch in 27 days
pheasant eggs hatch in ~20 days
song bird eggs hatch in ~10-15 days
what I wrote to nudger:
incubation periods take any where from 9 to 80 days in larger birds. Plus there is a 10- 21 day period that an egg will stay viable, before it needs to be incubated.
This is if God doesn't step in and do anything to keep them viable longer than their normal dormancy period.
They were only in the ark a total of a 150 days. And if they hatched while on the ark so what..
Let's say a chicken egg that God did nothing to, went 10 days then was incubated another 3 weeks. so a total 4 weeks or 30 days into the 150 day or approx 5 month journey. that's 30 days of no feeding no cleaning up poop, nothing. then after they hatch 4 to 6 month later they start laying eggs again..
The point is for anywhere between 19 to 100 days (dormant/incubation period) there is no need to feed care for or clean up after these birds.
If again God does nothing different. If you are looking for a magic act and in your mind god need to 'magic' something in this story, then have him 'magic' the dormancy period of the eggs.
Or
Don't. as it truly makes no difference, other than making more work for Noah and his house inorder see to the needs of those eggs.
