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....
Yah i won an Award with Science Fair!!
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Congratulations! I won 3rd place in a school science fair once. Couldn't believe it.
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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 days 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 didnt 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.
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 days 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 didnt 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.
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.
Wow, Duckie!!! THats great news!1 I'm very proud of you!!!!!!!!!!
Congrats on the award!
And very interesting reading also!
And very interesting reading also!
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!
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