My incubator was the only one that was open on a regular basis. We made sure to have kids keep their eyes on the ones who do not follow directions so that they stayed away. They were not washed and their eggs were never handled by students, only mine were. I honestly thought I would have no...
Hmmm... I just realized this could be a reason! Both of those other teachers had very hot rooms last week. Their incubators temps were still consistent though!
All 3 of us had humidity between 40 to low 60's. I do not know if Mr. N's was accurate, but I assume because it was brand new that he was good. Mr. F and I switched our hygrometers and thermometer and both were accurate.
We can check next week, but there has to be some fertilized eggs because we did have 10 hatch, 5 from one farm and 5 from another. We split the eggs evenly from each farm.
Mr. F did candle his and had many that were fertilized and were showing growth. Mr. N did not candle his. all 3 of us had the same number of eggs from each farm. In fact Mr. F brought eggs from his own chickens and none of his hatched in my incubator while the other 2 farms had 5 and 5. We are...
We decided to all hatch eggs in our classrooms this year. We have 3 incubators and got eggs from 3 farms. We split the eggs so that we all had the same amounts from each farm. We are absolutely at a loss for why 1 of us got chicks and the other 2 did not.
Day 21 was Wednesday...
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