Nice school project.. Did you keep the chickens? You make it sounds so easy.. I did not have everything I needed yesterday. Plus our house temp is about 60'. Another bump in the road. I felt there was to many bumps yesterday. I was so busy at work & Up since 5 o'clock in the morning. I gave up.Wow! I had no idea of how hard it is to hatch eggs. As I said earlier In school we each we gives 2 dozen eggs, we had to build our own incubator. We were to bring one to school every so many days, when we were done we were to have 4 live chicks. I was the only one that hatched eggs. I must have done it right. I made a wooden box, egg Carton bottoms, light, water bowel., and a temperature gage, turned the eggs before school, after school and before bed.
I had it set up in the basement, tempeture very constant, lucked out out of ignorance. Assumed it would work, didn't wsorry to much, I remember every time I checked it was perty constant. Again lucked out. Humidity is the big surprise to me. My mom, dispute herself helped me. She gave me a Windex bottle and told me to lightly spry them when. I turned them. She grow up with chickens, geese, rabbits and a cow. She did not want to encourage me, so she did not help me saying she didn't know anything....... If that was so why the Windex spry bottle and the suggestion. It was just luck. My mom said she know mine would hatch.
No I didn't keep them, the supplier of the eggs was so pick up the chicks when they were a week or so old. My pure mother, I gave her a lot stress, snakes, lizards, birds..... One day my mother called me, "someone is coming to see you!", I had no friends, it was confusing to me. Coming up the street a group of kids carring a dead pigeon. They were coming to me, they thought if anybody would know what to do I would. I took the leg band off, barred the bird and sent the band to a pigeon club my dad found. I found out about pigeons and pigeon raceing. .
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