Where do retics fall regarding ability to actively increase egg temp? They also have a pretty equatorial distribution and apparently not a lick of sense about cold weather, right? I know a loose ball will go straight for a hiding place behind the insulation and freeze.

I did observe the mother ball opening and loosening her coils from time to time presumably to passively regulate temp the little possible. It would be interesting if the widely expected lower hatch rate and lower next year production rate could be confirmed with an actual experiment or not. Maybe there are factors we don't foresee and the numbers would surprise.

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