Science Project Help!!!

[crosbygroup]

If you can find an incubator you could compare the % weight change of duck eggs and chicken eggs as they incubate (loss due to evaporation?). Read everything you can before you start so you have an idea of what might happen. You will need to work to keep just one variable. All eggs should be in one incubator so they are treated the same. The duck and chicken eggs should be laid at about the same time (one day old, 2 days old, etc). I would also try and find eggs of a similar size. Are duck eggs usually larger? If so try and find smaller duck eggs and bigger chicken eggs so they are very close in size. You will be comparing the % weight change over time for both, but try and keep the surface area of the eggs as close as possible.

Not sure if this helps, but at least you would still get to hatch chicks and ducks which sounds like what you want to do.

You could also take it a step further and after they hatch you could chart their weight gain and feed consumption.

 

[kid-n-chickens]

I suggest that you consider Unwashed eggs vs/ washed eggs (with tbsp. betadine and 1 qt warm water<wamer than the egg> and a soft brush. There is a post on byc about a guy doing the same experiment and he has posted how to on there. I suggest this b/c there are a lot of people that say you can not wash eggs with out taking the bloom off which will then give you a poor hatch rate and then there are people on here that say they rinse them with water or disinfect in mild bleach water etc.

 

[JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom]

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You are absolutely right. I did that in high school. Easy at first, then they look more and more like chicks. That last embryo is heart-breaking. Good choice to do something else.