Posted in Science and other Hands On activities
It's been a week since we started our chicken mummy project and today when we went to check how it was doing found that the salt had completely hardened in the bag like a rock! Definitely time to change the salt. I got a large plastic garbage bag and lined the sink with it and K got to work chipping Queen Chick-o-patra out of it.
I was quite shocked by how it had changed so much already!
K thought that it stank a little but I actually didn't think it was all that bad. I had filled up the sink next to us with bleach water for quick clean up so I think that mostly we were smelling it :) The salt inside the cavity had gone rock hard so he had to use a spoon to dig it out bit by bit.
Once he finally had it all cleaned off we placed Queen Chick-0-patra on the scale for her official weigh in *grin* She weighed 740 grams or 1 pound 10 ounces. She dropped a whopping 7.5 ounces, nearly half a pound!! This might not take as long as I thought. We repacked her with the natron and sealed her up in a plastic bag again and placed her back on top of the fridge until next week :)
If you want to see what we did to get this project started you can see Part 1 here.
Blessings,
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