2 Week Update

Now our chickens are two weeks old and there feathers are now growing.  Last Friday Mrs stark had to put one of our Chickens down because its legs were broken, so now we have 21 Chickens.

We tried to put little bits of wool on there feet so we could tell  chicks, turn's out they had ate the wool.


  One was scratching its face a lot so it got a bleeding face , we put the chick in a box. Every time we looked away it would fly out.  



For the holidays Hollie will take them home until term 4 at school.





By Matthew and Izzy.

Monday update

On Monday morning,  Room 4 got to hold their chicks and Gus was the leader. Everyone got to hold the chicks except for 2 boys. all of the chicks pooed because it got very loud in room4. Liam's chick got such a fright that it ran under him . At morning tea time everyone got to have one and some did not get to hold one. At lunch time we all got to hold one each but we had to swap them every 5 minits.

Sunday Update

Man, what a smell! I went into see our babies today and had to hold my nose! The incubator and the hatched eggs were stinking out the whole room.
I moved all the chicks to the brooder box - which made a total of 23. The ones I popped in today are all pretty small and scraggly looking. I hope they all survive. I've cleaned out the incubator and chucked the hatched eggshells away, so hopefully the smell will be better by tomorrow. I've kept the eggs that didn't hatch and we'll open them this week (well those of us brave enough will open them) and see how far along they got before they died.
This week we'll need to start trying to identify all the different chicks, which will be tricky since all except one are yellow! Once we've done that we can start weighing and getting to know our new wee class mates.

Saturday Update

We have 15 dried fluffy chicks in the brooder box, 5 still drying in the incubator and two hatching now. That's a total of 22!!!! I don't think any of the remaining eggs will hatch now. One of the chicks is black, so that must be one of Abbie's.  Tomorrow I'll take the last chicks out of the incubator and clean out the eggs because it's starting to stink a bit.  We'll do a opening of unhatched eggs on Monday.  So here's a few pics for those of you that didn't make it into school this morning.

Hatch Day

Thursday morning when we arrived at school two of our eggs had begun to pip (make little air holes in their shells). By the end of the day we had two chicks and 5 with pip holes. When we arrived this morning (Friday) we found we now had 8 chicks!!! Since then our chicks have been hatching non stop! We now have about 15 chicks but it's getting hard to tell because their are so many running around in there, as well as broken shells and around 20 odd more eggs to hatch. The kids are desperate to get the hatched ones into the brooder box but I'm holding them off as long as I can. We are trying to put the chicks needs before our own!!!!
Here are a few pics of the chicks in the incubator.

Candling

Last Thursday was day 18 of incubation for our eggs. Room 4 did some candling of our little eggs. Candling is when you go into a dark room and get a torch and put it against the fat end of the the egg. Like room 4 did. Room 4 went into the  resource room were it was a really dark place because other wise we wouldn't be able to see inside the eggs if we were in a light room. Since there is 24 people in our class we got 2 eggs each because there is 40 eggs in our incubator. When we were candling one of the eggs room 4 saw an eye in the egg so it is probable going to hatch soon. I hope that most of the chickens hatch out of the eggs.

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By Heidi and Libby

The Beginning

On Thursday last week Mrs Hancock put the eggs in the chicken incubator.
Yesterday, day 7,  we candled all the eggs.  (winner=still alive,quiter=it had started,yorker=no chicks at all.)
Our class had about 4 yolkers, 4 quiters and 20 winners. It was pretty cool seeing all the chicks   inside there eggs. We each got to take 2 eggs to the candling room.  In our class we have 24 kids but yesterday we had 4 kids gone after lunch.
 Everyone is excited because next Thursday we are candling again. After our next candling, on day 14, we will put the eggs back in the incubator and the lid stays on and in 7 more days the eggs will hatch. Then we will have chicks in our class. On day 19 we might hear the chicks in there eggs chipping.
                                                                    BY Abbie