Egg Explorations

As part of our study of birds using Apologia Flying Creatures we did some fun "egg-periments".

We learned about how strong those shells are, in order to protect the babies growing inside.

We "candled" some eggs to see how fresh they were.

And we dissolved the calcium in the shells with vinegar
(the eggs were boiled before being put in the vinegar or water, we didn't boil  the liquids)

We also compared different kinds of eggs.

 

banty, turkey, duck, store chicken egg, and banty again 

chicken and Coturnix quail eggs

turkey, duck and chicken eggs

and then of course we did a taste test.

We have one more "egg-periment" we are working on that I hope will be the best of all.