School for Science

 Isaac was accepted for the school of Science, which I believe I have already posted about.  If not, he now goes to the West Melbourne School for Science, where sciencey things are known to happen.  This year, Isaac is required to participate in the science fair, and he came up with one of the most difficult projects to tackle.  He wanted to see how different colored lights affect the hatching of chicken eggs. So, we first hatched chicks normally to set a control.  We had 9 eggs hatch, with one that started to hatch and then gave up the ghost before it got out of the eggs.  Two of our hatchlings died within the first week of life.  These were in a group that hatched a day or two later than the first brood.  One of them had a gimp legs and the other got trampled trying to feed.  So now we have 7 chicks that I am passing off to a friend today.  But no worries, we have 48 more eggs from Amazon of all places incubating in our experimental incubators.  We are excited to see what happens.  

Isaac in STEAM class (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math).  He and his friends are building a rover from a kit.

One of the first chicks to hatch from our first batch of hatchers.  5 chicks hatched within 1 day of each other.

This is the 2nd hatching from the control group.  One of the black ones and the yellow one died.

Our little brooder.

Our blue experimental incubator.

Our red experimental incubator.