Results for pre-cleaning Eggs before Incubation.

[DavKarm]

These are my 12 year old son's results for his 6th grade Science Project.

We took 36 eggs and cleaned them with different substances to determine how to treat the eggs before incubation:

Washing the eggs with hydrogen peroxide or boiling water resulted in more hatched chicks than any other method.




I hope this helps anyone out with incubation!!!!

 

[DavKarm]

OH - Washed eggs was just with cold water from the tap.

 

[aart]

Pretty cool....but I would think you'd need to consider other factors, fertility(were all the eggs from the same hen and rooster?), candling at the usual increments, records of consistency of turning, temperature and humidity before ascribing quantitative results to the hatching percentage due to washing variables.

 

[Bill 101]

I think that is a really exciting experiment for School Children to do. Fertility has nothing to do with washing or not.

 

[DavKarm]

Of course I would consider other variables - but for a 6th grade science experiment it worked well. Humidity, temperature, and auto-matic egg turner were consistent for all the eggs.

 

[aart]

Of course I would consider other variables - but for a 6th grade science experiment it worked well. Humidity, temperature, and auto-matic egg turner were consistent for all the eggs.

A great start to learning quantitative analysis!