Day Eighteen

Today our chicks are on their eighteenth day of development. Over the four day weekend the incubator sat on a end table in my living room (the eggs need turned 3 times a day) and Maddy helped me turn them each day.
This afternoon Miss Barbara, from Franklin County 4-H, came into our room to continue to talk to our classroom about the chick's development and growth. She read them a story then showed them pictures of chicks on various days of growing. She brought us in jars that showed actual chicks that were caught in various stages of development and then died (these pictures are kinda disgusting and not the best quality)







I am happy to report that even though one egg was not fertilized and three have stopped developing (through NO fault of our own), the other 26 chicks are developing nicely! While we took our time looking through the jars, Miss Barbara called up the tables to take turns candling the eggs to see inside.

We are continuing to draw and document our chick's growth in our journals

Over this weekend, they will begin to peck through the air sac to get to the egg shell and you will be able to hear them peeping inside the incubator (too bad we won't be here to hear it)

On Monday they will begin to hatch :-)