One Week Until the Hatch!

Our chicken eggs have been in the incubator for 13 days now and a week from tomorrow we expect them to begin hatching! Today in class we candled the eggs again (shining a very bright light through the eggs to see what is happening inside) and at least 9 of our 12 eggs look promising. At this point in incubation we expect to see the majority of the egg looking quite dark when candled if the chick is growing well and getting bigger but if an egg is too clear we expect that it may not hatch. Only time will tell! We expect the chicks to hatch next Tuesday and they will be with us in the classroom for the rest of the week. On Friday afternoon between 2-3pm we will have a chick celebration where families are welcome to come to class to meet the chicks and see some of the work we have done learning about them. After school on Friday the chicks will head back to the farm at UVM! If you are free on Friday afternoon come pay us a visit in first grade!