Chicken Hatching Project is Back!

This year we are doing the chicken egg hatching project again!  The kids were very excited about the project when I told them about it before our Spring Break.  Yesterday, we took a trip to Mount Healthy Hatcheries and picked up 2 dozen fertile chicken eggs.  We have an assortment of eggs again this year!

From top to bottom, we have:

6 Rhode Island Reds

6 Araucanas

6 Buff Orpingtons

6 Black Australorps

 

This afternoon we put the eggs in our incubator.  We waited until today to put them in so that the hatching day will be during the week instead of over the weekend.

 



 

 

Each student also made a prediction for how many eggs they think will hatch!  Some students were very confident... me, not as much!  We also filled in the first page of our chicken observation journals today.

 

We also have a countdown where we will color in one egg each day until we reach 21 days!  3 weeks is kind of a tough concept for the kids to understand, so this way they can see how many days have passed and how many more we have to go.

 

 

 

Hopefully everything goes smoothly this year and we don't have any incidents with a temperature spike in the incubator.  We don't have any extra time to start this project over this year!  We have been learning about the chicken life cycle and today students were able to put the pictures in the correct order.

 

 

We will do our first round of candeling next week to see if there is any progress!  



 

~Ms. Julie