In the spirit of 'don't count your chickens before they hatch', I'm a bit reluctant to say much of anything about my expectations for the hatching eggs in the incubator currently. We got 14 silky eggs total in the mail. They are a mix of buffs, whites, partridges and blue/black/splash. Two of them failed to start developing and were removed on day 7. I candled again on day 10 and on 14 and removed one more 'quitter'. That leaves us 11 eggs with dancing chicks inside! It is really neat to candle the eggs and see the baby chicks moving around. You can even see their tiny little feet shining through the eggshell! They are due to hatch on Monday the 15th - how nice that the kids will be out of school. I'm hopeful we'll get at least a few of them to make it all the way out. Stay tuned for the hatching report sometime next week...
The incubator project has been so much fun we are planning another batch to do a project with Andrew's 2nd grade class. I've built a second incubator from another cooler and have spent this week anxiously adjusting it to get it ready. I've included an automatic egg-turner since there will not be anyone there to do the turning duties. The picture is of the new classroom incubator in the testing phase.
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