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Schooling two active boys has never been more... interesting. That's the word I'm looking for!
I love my boys! God has given them the blessing of strong, active bodies and minds. We continually pray the first will remain intact, and the second will remain engaged with Him first, and then the school work. You'll meet my sweet sons, both entirely different, but both loving God to the best of their ability in the way He made them. I lovingly refer to them as my Bell Pepper Boy and my Habanero or Hambone. That should say it all!
This blog is an eclectic mix. The events, conversations, and the thoughts behind it all will be in here.
Every once in a while I'll try to capture something I don't want to forget. I hope you find things you enjoy. Please let me know if you do!
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Our Curriculum
- Mystery of History vol. 1
- Saxon 5/4
- Horizons Grade 2
- A Beka Language
- Spelling Power
- Apologia Zoology 1
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- The Bible
- Adam and His Kin by Beechick
- It by Groeschel
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Monday, September 8, 2008
Roll Over, Egg-toven?
Posted in School Things
What a blessing that my friends were interested in the eggs we are hatching. It's the second time we've used our incubator, and we learned a lot from our first try. Hopefully, this hatch will go as well or better than the first one. Our first try was a mix of two different species of quail. We hatched the larger, edible Cotournix, or Pharaoh Quail, and the smaller Chinesis, or Chinese Painted Button Quail. Here's a little information on our first hatch a little over two years ago.
The first thing anyone should do is. . .
 read the directions!
Here is what a large percentage of quail eggs will look like. These are the Pharaoh eggs, so they really are almost huge in comparison to the Button eggs. The eggs in this picture take up 5 or 6 squares of the hardware cloth. The Button eggs barely take up 4 squares on the hardware cloth. You wouldn't think it was a big difference, but it is. Pharaoh eggs are easier to hatch, as a general rule. We had more than 50% hatch on our first try. That's a pretty good for not knowing what you are doing . . . and having the eggs travel through the mail to begin with.
 Eggs in the incubator on Day 1 that year.
What you can't see in the above picture is every egg's little pencil markings on opposite sides. There was an X on one side and an O on the other. This helps to know which eggs have been turned and how many times you need to turn them in a day. We write little X's and O's on our magnetic calendar on the fridge this year so we know what we've done. We try to turn them every 3 or 4 hours. If we have a poor hatch this time around it could be due to our Day 1. We actually didn't get to turn them as frequently that day because of a last minute family "event" we needed to attend. We're hoping for the best, though.
So, that's the most you really see of the eggs for a long time. Right now we have the same sort of thing as this next picture going on most of the time.
We're doing a lot of "roll over" exercise right now. We're doing our best to turn the eggs at 8:00, 12:00, 4:00 and 8:00. Sometimes I sneak in an extra turn so they aren't on the same side all night every night.
Does that help? Welcome to our crazy egg world! Pretty timely for Apologia Zoology 1, eh? ;')
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