Wednesday, April 9, 2014

A Sad Day...

One night over the weekend our classroom incubator spiked to a temperature of 117 degrees.  I knew this had to be a bad sign, so on Monday I decided to candle all of the eggs for the first time and I could not find any good signs of life.  While some things I have read said that there was a chance that the embryos could survive a spike in temperature for a short amount of time, I think it just went way too high.  Since we were only a week into our project, I decided to get rid of the eggs today and I have ordered new eggs from the hatchery so that we can start our project over next week.  The kids seem to understand and were happy when I told them that we could start the project over with a new set of eggs.  I am hoping this time that we do not have another incident like this!

~Ms. Julie

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