Tuesday, April 5, 2016

It's Finally Springtime!

It's finally springtime and that means one thing in my classroom - our chick hatching project has begun!

Today we went to pick up our chicken eggs from Mount Healthy Hatchery. 


I only ordered one dozen this year, but we still got a mix of 3 different breeds.  In the past, I have had Rhode Island Reds and Americaunas, but this will be the first year I have had Columbian Rocks.



This afternoon before we put our eggs into the incubator, we talked about how the eggs were the same and different and the students completed the first page in their chicken observation journals.  Then I had each of them make a prediction on how many of the eggs they think will hatch.  Here are our predictions:


And finally, we put our eggs in the incubator!  Fingers crossed that we don't have any significant temperature and humidity problems this year and hopefully we have a few successful hatches.  It's going to be a long 21 days!

            

 
Stay tuned!

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