We came back from spring break and want to give a HUGE thank you to our head janitor, Mr. Junior for maintaining our data collection on the eggs. He faithfully recorded temperature and humidity readings while we were gone, and he even added water to the incubator when the levels got too low. Thank you! |
We picked up with candling knowing that hopefully a lot happened over the week+ we were gone. We've noticed that most of our eggs have lost a little weight, the circumference stayed relatively the same, and that some of our eggs don't really look that different from when we candled them on Day 2.
However...some of our eggs look WAYYYYYYY different!!! We're thinking that those lines we're seeing are veins of some sort, and we even see this dark shadowed part we're thinking could be the chick growing. There's less and less of that yellowish-orange thing we saw in the beginning, so we're thinking the yolk/white might be getting smaller.
This prompted to wonder a bunch of things:
1. Are the eggs that don't look any different than early on going to become chicks? Are they even fertilized?
2. Will they hurt the eggs that are seemingly developing into chicks?
3. What is actually going on inside the eggs? Like how are the chicks developing?
Students have requested to put a camera inside the eggs to see how the chicks are developing...but since we can't do that without jeopardizing the chick's safety, we are going to do some research!
1. Are the eggs that don't look any different than early on going to become chicks? Are they even fertilized?
2. Will they hurt the eggs that are seemingly developing into chicks?
3. What is actually going on inside the eggs? Like how are the chicks developing?
Students have requested to put a camera inside the eggs to see how the chicks are developing...but since we can't do that without jeopardizing the chick's safety, we are going to do some research!