Our Fluffy Friends!

 

Penguin

Coco

 

Flash

Chip

 

 

 

5 Days Old!

Our chicks are doing really well and are already growing so quickly! We were delighted to see that a fourth egg had hatched over the weekend, so we now have 4 very healthy and happy chicks!

 Our newest arrival, Chip...

They love to sleep under the warmth of a lamp and on the hot water bottle.

Ms. Healy was on chick-sitting duties over the weekend...

 

We had to change our black chick's name to Penguin because, as he got fluffier, he started to look more and more like one!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hatching Day!

We arrived into school this morning to two fuzzy, brown chicks! The chick that began hatching yesterday emerged overnight, along with a second one! We had another surprise then this morning when a third one hatched before our eyes! It really is amazing!!!

This chick had just popped out of its egg in these photo!

 Sleepy chicks!

We were very excited to spread the news!

 

First Signs of Life!

Exactly 21 days after we put our eggs into the incubator we have heard the first signs of life. One of our chicks began cheeping from inside the egg!!

Below is a video in which you can hear the cheeping and see small pieces of cracked shell on the floor of the incubator beside the egg. It can take some time for the chick to come all of the way out of the egg so we still have to wait a while and hope that it comes out healthy!

We're Nearly There!!

We're nearly at the end of our 21 days of incubation. At this stage the chicks should be fully grown inside the egg and getting read to hatch. Here's a chart showing the growth of the chicks inside the eggs over the 21 days.

 

 

Day 15 in the Incubator!

We've been keeping a close eye on our eggs!

Today we 'candled' them again and above is what we saw. There's definitely something in there! Some eggs appear to have grown more than others which would suggest that some may not hatch. We're keeping our fingers crossed!

 

 

 

Day 6 in the Incubator.

Our eggs have been in the incubator for nearly a week. Today we 'candled' the eggs which means we shone a light through them to see if we could see the chicks growing inside. Below is a picture of what we saw!

The shadow in the middle is the chick growing inside!

 

 

We are very EGG-cited!

We're incubating hen eggs in our classroom!