- Dates
- circa 1968-03 – circa 1968-04
- Kind
- Education
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- educationcommunityagriculture
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The April 1968 Beaver Beacon described Beaver Island School students waiting through two reported 21-day incubation periods. After the first four eggs did not hatch, Russ Green supplied four more, and two of the second group produced chicks, prompting considerable excitement among students and staff.
Evidence and limits
This is a newspaper school-activity feature. The reported timing and outcome are not an agricultural experiment record or complete hatch-rate study.
Sources
- Reports two rounds of eggs in a school incubator, with two chicks hatching after the students waited through the reported 42-day process; it does not provide an agricultural curriculum record or hatch-rate study.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1968-04_Beaver-Beacon
- The held six-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published school activity report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1968-04_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island School students hatch chicks in an incubator project, 1968”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-school-incubator-chicks-1968/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 1968, “School Activities.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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