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A student takes his turn holding one of the baby chicks.

During the month of March, all of our classes were studying about the spring.  Since we were learning about how new plants grow and baby animals are born in springtime, we decided to take on a very special project: hatching baby chicks from eggs!  Thanks to Ms. Shelley and our local agricultural department, we were able to get two dozen fertilized eggs and an incubator with turners.

When the eggs arrived, the EPS class went down to Room 2 to set up the incubator and put the eggs inside.  We had talked together some days ahead of time to know that we had to be careful and gentle with the eggs, and that we had to take good care of them so that the baby chicks could grow inside.  This included checking on them every day, making sure that the incubator tray was full of water (to create humidity) and to look at the thermometer to see that the temperature was just right.  It was very important to keep those baby chicks warm!

This was a great practice in responsibility and patience for all our students, as they eagerly waited for the chicks to hatch out of the eggs.  While we waited, we watched video clips of how baby chickens hatch, so that we would know how the baby chicks break out of their shells, as well as what they would look like when they come out.  We also read books about baby chicks, and how to care for them once their feathers are dry – that’s when they can come out of the incubator!  We read about how they need a warm lamp to shine down on them, and how they have to have lots of food and water (just like our pets at home!).

Finally, after 21 days, our baby chicks started pipping and pecking through their shells on the last Tuesday of the month!  We were very excited to see them coming through the eggs.  We would have to wait until the next morning for them to fully hatch and dry in the incubator.  When their feathers were fluffy, we put them in the brood box to start feeding and growing.  In total, we had 19 chicks hatch out of 24 – there were a lot of little chickens running around in that brood box!

Every class took great care of the chicks for a full week after hatching: they spent time with them by holding them and

petting them, fed them and watered them.  Some of the school families

even took them home to raise!  We can’t wait to see how the baby chicks will grow and what they will look like when they are full-grown chickens.  We’re very excited to help hatch some eggs next year as well!

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