Hellooooo Chickies

Today, Miss Barbara (from 4-H) came out to educate us and K1 a little bit more about our lil chickies that are getting ready to hatch in our white square incubator at the back of the room

Some interesting chicken hatching information?

• a chick will peck at the shell an average of about 20,000 times before they are finally done
• eggs must be turned three times a day to prevent sticking to the sides of the eggs and to help develop their muscles

Our eggs are on day 8 and will be hatching around day 21 (monday May 23th)

Miss Barbara also did something called candling with the chicks where you use a special light to be able to see inside the eggs to see how they are growing. On day eight this is basically what the kids saw:

She pointed out the chick's eyes to the students and the good news that is that 26 out of our 27 eggs have all been fertilized and growing right on track :-)