Yah i won an Award with Science Fair!!

[call ducks]

I won an award. "Pre-incubation...The Next Step" i won a award for some thing. Don't know what it is for though. There was some one there from the AC, she seemed interested in it....

 

[paddock36]

You should be very proud of yourself.

 

[speckledhen]

Congratulations! I won 3rd place in a school science fair once. Couldn't believe it.

 

[call ducks]

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Awesome!! this was regionals!

Here's what my experiment was



Hypothesis:

I believe that pre-incubation of hatching eggs has some truth and possibility. When I think about pre-incubation it makes sense that it could work. I think it will work because any eggs that were fertile would develop to a state in which they would remain fertile for a longer period of time than eggs that were not pre-incubated before starting the 21 day incubation. The purpose of this experiment is to find out if hatching eggs that are pre-incubated stand a better chance to hatch than eggs that were not pre-incubated. If pre-incubation increases the odds of eggs hatching this would increase how people can ship hatching.



Process :

I collected 3 day’s worth of eggs (about 18 eggs in total), I placed half of the eggs in the incubator that was set up and running for 3 hours to warm the eggs, to a state where they should be able to keep up to a month with out losing fertility. The other nine eggs were kept in plastic egg trays (where they were stored at ambient temperature for the three days). I did a “dry hatch” for this, I didn’t put any water in the trough for incubation. I filled up the troughs about half way (there were two troughs) at day 18. I used an automatic turner so the eggs were turned every four hours.



What I knew beforehand:

Before hand I knew that chicken eggs and some duck eggs are extremely hard to hatch, I keep breeding pair or trio of the best, it is hard to get a lager amount of eggs to set at once. I thought that pre-incubation, would be a good idea on how I could store eggs until I had enough to make the incubator full . There was a post on a discussion forum that I am a member on and this sparked my interest in this idea. From what I gathered there was a little bit of research done, but I was never able to find any.



Materials:

~ 18 Chicken Eggs

~ One Hova-bator 1588 egg incubator

~ One Hova-bator automatic egg turner

~ ½ cup of water for hatching

The Results:

The final total hatch rate (for both groups) was 83.3%, this is the best hatch rate I have gotten. The hatch rates for control group was 77.8% with 22.2% not hatching, the hatch rate for the pre-incubated group was 88.9%.With 11% of the pre-incubated eggs not hatching.

In the control group, there were two eggs that did not hatch. With the pre-incubated group 1 egg did not hatch. All eggs up until day 18 developed normally.

 

[Baymule]

That is wonderful. Isn't it great when you can gain recognition for something you enjoy so much? Thanks for the article, I just learned something and will file it away for the day when I am so fortunate to be able to keep a rooster and have eggs to hatch.

 

[redhen]

Wow, Duckie!!! THats great news!1 I'm very proud of you!!!!!!!!!!

 

[mississippifarmboy]

Congrats on the award!

And very interesting reading also!

 

[sourland]

Congratulations!

 

[MysticScorpio82]

That is so awesome! Congratulations! You should be super proud of yourself

 

[RoeDylanda]

Yay for you! Thanks for posting the written part as well-- I tell you, I have taught nursing students at the college level and you write better than about a third of them. Keep it up! I love to see people doing science well. This made my day!