Yeah - Eggs in the Incubator

[tia]

Today we put 16 eggs in two incubators. My students are so excited. The school bought me a new incubator and I put half of them in that one, and then I took mine in and we put the other half in it. (Didn't want to put all our eggs in one basket)
: ) The incubators temp and humidity are holding pretty steady. I will have to say the Suro is more constant then the Brinsea which seems to fluctuate a little.

Although the Suro works great - I don't really care for the bars that hold the eggs in place, so you can use the turner. They are made of plastic and slip into slots at each end, like a fence on both sides of the row of eggs, The only problem is if they fit good on the end, the plastic bows out in the middle, so the eggs are too loose and fall over. Last time I used a piece of yarn on both sides of the egg to tighten it, so the eggs wouldn't fall over. The holders in the Brinsea are similar, but they are made out of metal and a little more firm, they also have a foam insert so the eggs have some cushion. I used the metal holders from the Brinsea in the Suro this time. I would turn the eggs by hand, but the incubators are at school and I don't want to have to go back to work - I spend enough time there as it is.

I have a good home for the ducklings, or I would not hatch them. The hardest part will be parting with the little fellows. They will have lots of foraging space, plenty of other ducks to hang out with, a wonderful place to swim and very good care. I live in town and am trying to keep my group down to six - I may have to keep one if they are too cute to part with though. : )

 

[kelseygirl707]

YAY! Sounds like fun! My Kindergarten class hatched duck eggs and the parents of the kids in the class had the option of adopting the ducklings. Always seemed to work out well. Good Luck!

 

[duckyfromoz]

I can remember having an incubator in the classroom when I was about 10. Most of the other kids were so excited -and some of them hadnt ever seen a live chicken before. It was a bit Ho Hum for me as I remember it... My Mum had been hatching chickens for years. But now that I have my own inicubator- I feel just like a little kid again seeing a chicken hatch for the first time- every time I see pips in my eggs. Hope all goes well with the eggs- and the kids get a real thrill out of seeing them hatch.

 

[chicken boy sam]

I wish my school did that!

 

[duckluck]

I just have to throw out a comment from a not so humble opinion here...I am SO GLAD that some schools are still teaching some things worth knowing. If I had kids, no way would I send them into the public school system we have now, with all the indoctrination, sterilization of information and things being taught that kids frankly shouldn't be taught in a school or by anyone other than family, if and when they are ready to know. But I do take my hat off to educators who are doing this with the incubators, because I really feel it teaches the kids something important about life and proper respect for it. So many kids out there have no idea that those little white things have no other function than going into a frying pan...and some don't even know that! We never had this in the schools when I was a kid, so I am very glad to see that some people are still doing it.