Congo finally got the best of me and my incubating chick eggs. After the power went out and the backup generator malfunctioned, the incubator turned off for a few hours and chilled to uninhabitable temperatures. By the time I discovered this it may very well have been too late. Nonetheless, between bothering my boss, the head of maintenance and the napping electrician on a Saturday afternoon, we managed to stage a dramatic rescue of moving the eggs and incubator to my house. If the power outage didn't kill or deform them, my hasty attempts to make up for the low temperatures probably cooked whatever was left of the chicks. Late last night the generator was restored and today the power is back on, so I moved everything back to my classroom which may now be a science museum of dead, dying or deformed embryos. Hatching day is scheduled for Tuesday-Wednesday, so now we wait. The chicks eggs should start rocking, vibrating and peeping soon, but no signs of life so far.
Crossing all appendages for the chicks, the kinderfolk and me.
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This has got to be the most dramatic saga of kindergarten chick hatching ever. So sad. I'll say a Mi Shebeirach for them. ;-)
Sending big hopes for successful hatching! We just hatched a praying mantis egg sac, and watched the drama of the siblings eating each other, dying for mysterious reasons, etc. Am just hoping some hold on til the end of the school year at least... Love to you!
Dear Dr. Frankenstein,
If you can obtain a computer backup power supply, It would act as a cheap emergency power supply for your next experiment.
If you do the vivisection, you will be able to see the beating heart, and the blood moving through the vessels.
I'm on the edge of my seat! Help us out here!
It's May already... what happened?
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