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I agree with an earlier post: define sucess.
My first hatch was year ago. I am preschool teacher and I hatched eggs in my classroom. I knew nothing about hatching eggs or chickens, and did alot of research on this site and learned a ton.
I hatched in a LG forced air incubator that my school had donated. Not the best incubator for a classroom by far. It's hard to make my room the steady stable enviroment that a LG needs to work properly. My incubation was constantly plagued by low temps, and, according to my therometer, killer overnight spikes a time or two (not sure how accurate that is). I even dropped one egg that had been developing while candling! I had seven eggs in that batch, three of which hatched, and with all my problems, I counted that a success. I also counted it a success, b/c my students got to see a chicken born right in front of them, which was my goal.
I am incubating eggs for the second time ever with this year class. We are involving some of the older students (4th and 5th grade). They are checking the temp and humidity daily. So far I am counting this one a sucess too. The hatch started much the same as last time. Despite my increased efforts to get the bator stable, we had low temps and a spike or two. However, 4 out of 6 eggs are developing nicely (we are on day 8). The older students have learned what the veins do for a chick, saw the air sack and learned what its for, and got to a couple embryos swimming around inside! If all I get is a chick or two, I' still count that as a success.
And all these eggs come from a former student of mine who has some chickens, and obiviously a rooster too
. So they aren't shipped, but came by car.
My first hatch was year ago. I am preschool teacher and I hatched eggs in my classroom. I knew nothing about hatching eggs or chickens, and did alot of research on this site and learned a ton.
I hatched in a LG forced air incubator that my school had donated. Not the best incubator for a classroom by far. It's hard to make my room the steady stable enviroment that a LG needs to work properly. My incubation was constantly plagued by low temps, and, according to my therometer, killer overnight spikes a time or two (not sure how accurate that is). I even dropped one egg that had been developing while candling! I had seven eggs in that batch, three of which hatched, and with all my problems, I counted that a success. I also counted it a success, b/c my students got to see a chicken born right in front of them, which was my goal.
I am incubating eggs for the second time ever with this year class. We are involving some of the older students (4th and 5th grade). They are checking the temp and humidity daily. So far I am counting this one a sucess too. The hatch started much the same as last time. Despite my increased efforts to get the bator stable, we had low temps and a spike or two. However, 4 out of 6 eggs are developing nicely (we are on day 8). The older students have learned what the veins do for a chick, saw the air sack and learned what its for, and got to a couple embryos swimming around inside! If all I get is a chick or two, I' still count that as a success.
And all these eggs come from a former student of mine who has some chickens, and obiviously a rooster too
