We candled the mallard eggs today (set on the 7th.) We started with 12. After the first candling on day 5 we had 1 blood ring, and one that I couldnt tell. But 10 eggs with very nice looking veins. Today (day 12), we only had 6 left. I wasnt surprised about 2 of them, but when the other 4...
Tomorrow would be two weeks, but since my students will not be here, we candled the Pekins today. We could see the babies moving! That was the most incredible thing ive ever seen. Couldnt tell what body parts we were seeing or if they even have body parts yet but they were sure swimming...
WOOOHOOO! We candled our mallard eggs today. 11 out of 12 have long beautiful red veins! One of the eggs had a blood ring. But that is still 21 eggs so far. I am so excited. Our Pekins will be hatching on Halloween. And the mallards on the 5th. I cannot wait to post pictures! My whole...
Ok. Good that makes me feel better. I was afraid I was doing something wrong. With all these eyes watching me I am so afraid of only getting one or two babies out of 24...that would be really sad...or worse...NONE! But I am excited about only having 2 non fertile eggs. It makes me feel like...
So today is day 5 that our class eggs have been in our incubator. I have been so good and didnt peek until today. We have a 4 day break so we had to do it on day 5 instead of day 7. BUT!!! as of right now...we candled our 12 Pekin eggs and 10 of the 12 have veins! I am sooo excited! I do...
im actually expecting that. We were able to do this through the limeades for learning project through the Sonic Restrauants. They gave us the 400$ grant that paid for the egss and the incubator and other things we needed. The whole school was a part of collecting the labels that we needed to...
thanks for all the support. My janitors know aobut the eggs. They are excited too. Hopefully I have read enough that things go well. I really hope it goes ok.
So i got just got my pekin eggs today (thanks to taztaz31)...12 of them. I took them to school and put them in my incubator. If all goes according to plan, I should have some babies peeping out around Halloween! Going to need some creative names for these babies. I also have 12 rouen eggs...