Experiment!

It is that time of the year; Science Fair time! This year Kristi is working on an experiment with the help of our chickens. Mike has really been wanting to hatch some of our own chicks (for fun), so we decided to make it part of her science project. Kristi decided to question how much an egg weighs after being laid in comparison to what it weighs as it is hatching. She predicts that the egg will weigh more with the little chick in it. I think it will be the same. What do you think?



To do this experiment (and hatch some chickies in the process), we weighed each egg after it was laid, and labeled it with a number.





After recording the weight (the average egg weighing about 1.6 ozs), she placed the egg in a circulated air incubator that we borrowed from a neighbor. It keeps the eggs at 99 1/2 degrees Fahrenheit. Now we are just watching and waiting for the most part. I'm tempted to weigh the eggs now to see if there has been a change, though I don't see how that could be. The chicks take 21 days to hatch, which means that in one more week, we should have the results!