Skye and Jon's Eggellent Adventure

One of the most memorable biology experiments is hatching chickens. So of course that had to be added to the curriculum of our Ecology 101 class. Hold on to your hats.

Fertile Eggs A-Go-Go

So how to make it happen. Onto the internet and into the madness.....



Murray McMurray Hatchery, the go-to joint for all things poultry. We ordered up an incubator, an egg-turner to make it easier and semi-idiot proof and then a collection of fertile eggs called "Rarest of the Rare".



How do you get eggs from here to there? Well out of 35+ eggs only 2 were broken.



We were expecting some sort of guide as far as which eggs were which but it ended up being much more of a grab bag of sorts.




These eggs will hatch and be what????!!!!!



Here we go, let the eggs hatch as they lay so to speak....



Bring on the heat.



So gotta keep this thing around 99-100 degrees F and at a specific humidity. Chickens are't that bright, how do they keep reproducing with such specificity.



Humidity on the left, temperature on the right



One piece of art alongside the others....

In a bit of weeks we will see how we've done.