Pio Pio

We were given a dozen eggs to try and hatch at my preschool. We've been watching them, turning them, making sure the heat is set right on the incubator and watering it for humidity for about 2 week. Yesterday, they started to hatch. I didn't get to see the excitement though, I was at home sick with strep :o(

This morning I walked in to find one hatched chick in the incubator--Bart (or so was the name we wrote on the egg). He was the second hatched chick; the first, Agnes, went home with my boss overnight. I fell in love with Bart right away. He's such a cute yellow chickie!! Agnes came back to school later; she's multicolor brownish. Also very pretty.

The other chicks, I was told, were pecking through their eggs and chirping and moving all about yesterday. Today, only dead beaks poked out of their unhatched eggs :o( One was still alive and breathing, so I hatched him. I don't think he, Billy, will make it. I figured, if he was going to die anyway in his shell, it wouldn't hurt so much to go ahead and crack him open. Someone took him home for tonight to see if he'd make it.

The kids (and parents and teachers too) LOVED looking over the eggs and the excitement of them hatching. Really cool learning experience for all :o)