Welcome Chicks!

Cheep, Cheep, Cheep! That is the sound we heard last week when our chicks hatched. We had been excitedly waiting for this day to finally arrive.
 21 days ago Mrs. Bucchiere brought an incubator with 15 eggs. We learned that the temperature inside the incubator should be around 99.5 degrees and the humidity should be at least 65%. 

Because we couldn't see what was happening inside the eggs, Mrs. Bucchiere sent a kit showing what happens during each of the 21 days it takes for a chick to develop and then hatch.

Each day we did an observation of what was going on inside the egg and discussed any changes we saw. We recorded our results in a special observation journal. 

On Day 17, Mrs. Bucchiere visited our classroom and candled the eggs to see which ones were developing into chicks. To do this, she put each egg on a bright light. While we were not able to see the chick inside the egg, we did observe that the eggs that had no chick inside shined a bright orange-ish color and the eggs with a chick inside remained dark. We were excited that 10 of our eggs held chicks.
Finally on the 21st day we started to hear peeping coming from one of the eggs. The next  morning we had 2 fuzzy chicks and throughout the remainder of the day 6 more hatched.
While we were not lucky enough to see one of the chicks hatch live, Miss Klipfel's class was able to see two hatch. Lucky them! 

video courtesy of Miss Klipfel



video courtesy of Miss Klipfel

It was a lot of fun to observe the chicks for a couple of days. 

 Thank you, Mrs. Bucchiere for this amazing and unique opportunity!