Sentence examples for chick age from inspiring English sources

Differences in the meal size and foraging trip duration relative to foraging overlap with fisheries were examined using a linear mixed-effect model, adjusted for chick age.

Models had nest ( = cuckoo chick) identity as a random factor, treatment (evictor vs. non-evictor) as nominal predictor and chick age as continuous covariate.

Hatching dates of chicks were determined either by checking the status of each nest daily, or estimated from linear regressions of culmen length against chick age [31].

I subsequently created a variable to separate the variation of interest from the general increase in feeding rate with chick age that is well known in many passerine species [e.g. 19].

Thus, mass vs. structural size in chicks of these groups is not independent of chick age.

For each clutch, the mean chick age and thereby mean hatching date were calculated.

For this purpose a total of 180 Ross 308 male broiler chicks aged one day were used.

Your ability to spew forth catty pontification on the finer points of this novel will score you big points with chicks ages 24 to 29.

While I was thinking, "She's a pretty old chick," her age definitely didn't bother any of the males in the office, who adhere to that old Aaliyah adage: "Age ain't nothin' but a number".

We estimated chick fledging age as a mid-point between the last nest check when the chick was in the nest and the first nest check when the nest was empty and there were no signs of predation.

Another fictional oldster who's still sexually active is the ironically named Chick, the aging narrator of Saul Bellow's recent novel, "Ravelstein".