How do I incubate a fresh quail egg without an incubator?
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It won't be easy. You could try using a desk lamp and an thermometer to monitor the temperature.The temp need to be between 99.5 and 100.5 F. Even a degree to high or low can hurt the embryo. You can reduce the heat by about 1/2 a degree after the first five days.
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I'll address this as a formal type of trial, kind of give you the extremes first, and you'll need to tone it down to the level that you're looking to do.  \n\nFirst, and I'd say most importantly, you need to do this to much more than one egg.  What your teachers will be looking for is a stistically signifigant amount.  If you do one, your answer is 100% one way or the other, which isn't too helpful.  \n\nSecond, I would do each egg in "regular" water first.  Since, when they were boiled, they were already exposed to that type of water, there isn't much chance of them being contaminated in any way.  I would then make a chart something like this\n\nEgg #   |  Floated in norm...  |  Floated in salt...  \n   \n     1                        no                       yes\n\netc.\n\nYou'll want to, in some way, be able to compare these, so that you can quantify your results.  For example  "85% of the eggs tested were more boyant in salt water than in normal water..."  \n\nWays to improve\nThe only big thing I can think of here, with out changing this to a general which liquid is most bouyant, is be consistant.  Check and make sure that the water levels are close, you don't want 6 inches of salt water and only 4 of normal.  Check the temperature of the water, if one is hotter it will help its bouyancy.  Make sure to use the same mixture of salt to water each time, if you use more than one container.  And consider using bottled water, probably not necessary at all, but tap water has a lot of other stuff in it.  \n\nMost importantly, write down everything you do.  Say you checked the water temp.  Tell them that the ratio of salt to water was the same every time (and what it was).  The more details you give them, the more through you show yourself to be.  Have fun, maybe you can make egg salad after you're done!
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AMBIGUITY ALREADY!  \nI have learned that to have the white hard and the yolk still runny but warm you PUT THE EGG IN WATER WHICH IS ALREADY BOILING FOR EXACTLY 3 MINUTES...hence the three minute egg and the three minute timers you can buy.  \nBy having a SPECIFIC starting point, IF the 3 minutes is NOT long enough, you can always adjust this, and have only wasted an egg or two.  ALSO, it will matter SLIGHTLY the SIZE of the egg.  \nI do think that there is one little ammendment to this answer though.  You should put the egg (or 2 or 3) in the water when the water is room temperature or fresh from the tap.  You THEN put the pot with eggs and water on the element.  Element is on HIGH.  ONCE THE WATER STARTS TO BOIL, as SOON as you see the water boiling, you start timing and time for 3 minutes removing the eggs IMMEDIATELY after 3 minutes FROM the water.  \nAgain, try this exacting method and if it is not BANG ON for the SPECIFIC EGG SIZE you use, then adjust by about 15 seconds either side of 3 minutes.\nGOOD LUCK
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You cannot *ever* feel the egg my dear.  It is WAY up inside and so tiny.\n\nIf you really want to see if you are ovulating there are tests you can buy at the drug store.
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Soak a raw egg in vinegar overnigt.  The shell on the egg will become rubberized and actually bounce.
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If the egg is unprotected then wear gloves & transfer the egg to a make shift nest made up of grasses, leaves, ect & keep it warm in the late evening & night with a thick towel. Around 10am if it is about  78degrees or greater remove the towel. after the baby is born worms & insects hunting will be your job\n\nGood luck
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basically what you do is you take an unfertilized egg and the nucleus of a pre-existing animal, and you put the nucleus into the egg and let it grow.
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They are fertilized by the rooster!  The chickens people raise on their own usually they have a rooster if they want to have the eggs fertilized,then they have to have a hen that is called a setter,that will sit on the eggs,protect them and keep them warm until the babies hatch.  You CAN eat farm fresh eggs that are fertilized though too. You can tell if they are fertilized because there will be a small blood spot in the white of the egg.    \n\nThe eggs you get from the store are not fertilized because the chickens produce eggs on their own.  You don't need a rooster to get an egg from a chicken.  You only need a rooster to fertilize eggs.\n\nThe rooster mounts the hen and then use your imagination!  It is similar to human eggs being fertilized.  Only difference is the rooster can fertilize MANY eggs a day! Especially if he has a lot of hens to choose from.
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Just make sure there is no running yolk or similar, make sure they're all well done. If you heat up the eggs over 100 degrees Celsius for several minutes, the virus would die. \n\nIt IS theoretically possible to get infected from the infected eggs, but all the eggs you buy in the store have VERY strict health inspections done. There is a possibility the eggs are infected if you breed the chicken at home in a non-protected pen from wild birds (so that birds can get in contact with chicken or poo down on them). If your chicken behave weirdly or die suddenly, DO NOT TOUCH them, call a vet immediately. \n\nanything you buy in the store is safe.
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The following web site provides the science of boiling an egg:\n\nhttp://newton.ex.ac.uk/teaching/CDHW/egg/
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You mean chicken eggs that we eat? It's not necessary. Generally the eggs we eat aren't fertilized.
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Eggs don't brake, they break.  \n\nMake sure it drops onto some soft foam.  Then it won't break.
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First off, cardboard works well if you're looking for low-cost but durable casing.  Use duct tape and make a small container that will hold your egg.  Making a prism (three-sided box) and taping more cardboard on the ends works quite well.\n\nNext you need some kind of padding on the inside, something that will take the shock of the hit but not send it through to the egg itself.  If you can find any of that bubble packing wrap (especially the big kind), that works well.\n\nI've done this twice, and the second time we used rubber bands and tape and made a sling for the egg so it was suspended in all directions inside the box.  You need padding as well, but this helps the egg not to hit the sides.\n\nGood luck :)
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Well, your "male chicken" or Rooster as he is liken to be called is the one that fertilizes the egg.  With out fertilization there will be no "chicks"...\n\nJust as the male of the specie fertilizes females, you or any other woman, if not, then you simply ovulate and discharge the "egg" and there is no viable human being present.\n\nSo, let the rooster have his way with a chicken and you will have pee pees when you incubate the eggs.\n\nI wish you well..\n\nJesse
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Um, no. Only fertilized eggs can be incubated and hatched. The  eggs that you buy in a store are basically the unfertilized eggs of menstruation. (It is analogous to the unfertilized egg each woman dispels each month during her period.)
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The eggs were already in the product. The eggs lie dormant until the environment is right, and then they hatch.
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You can still have eggs without them being fertilized. Chickens or people.You know that little white speck you sometimes see in chicken eggs?(Raw ones)That's an egg that has been fertilized.