I raised a duck from an egg when I was in high school.” He grinned at me. “Science fair project.”
“A duck?” “Yes, but the principle is the same for all poultry.
Keep the temperature constant and the humidity right, turn the egg several times a day, and in a few weeks you’ll have yourself a little peeper.”
He handed me a lightbulb and an extension cord with a socket attached. “Fasten this through the hole in the Plexiglas. I’ll find some thermometers.”
“Some? We need more than one?” “We have to make you a hygrometer.”
“A hygrometer?” “To check the humidity inside the incubator. It’s just a thermometer with wet gauze around the bulb.”
I smiled. “No mushy chick disease?” He smiled back. “Precisely.”
By the next afternoon I had not one, but six chicken eggs incubating at a cozy 102 degrees Fahrenheit.
“They don’t all make it, Juli,” Mrs. Brubeck told me. “Hope for one. The record’s three.
The grade’s in the documentation. Be a scientist. Good luck.”
And with that, she was off. Documentation? Of what?
I had to turn the eggs three times a day and regulate the temperature and humidity, but aside from that what was there to do?
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