Check out the LIVE video feed!

We have started our live video feed so that you can view the eggs and watch them hatch (which will hopefully be happening tomorrow)!

Click this link to view the feed: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hughes-chicken-hatching-live

Chick Poems by First Grade

First grade celebrated the upcoming chick hatching day and poetry month by writing acrostic poems about chicks, eggs, and chickens. Here are a few poems that they created!

Day 12 - Candling Day!

It is finally time to see how our little chicks are growing. Through a process called candling, a light is shown on the bottom side of the egg, illuminating the inside so that a shadow of the chick can be seen. Some of the darker colored shells are more difficult to see through, but luckily we have a few light colored shells that are allowing us to view the growing chick perfectly!







One student made the observation when viewing the egg that the defining line between the light and dark parts of the egg was "like the equator".

It's Chicken Time Again!

We are so excited to begin our journey of hatching chickens again this year. First grade is learning all about the life cycle of a chicken. First graders, along with the rest of the students at Hughes are getting to see first hand how chickens are hatched. 

The eggs will be in the incubator for 21 days before the chicks are ready to make their debut. We are excited that the chicks arrived on Thursday, March 23rd. The anticipated hatch date is April 13th! 

10 Baby Chicks!

We had 10 out of the 12 eggs hatch this year! We are so excited to welcome the baby chicks to the world!

The chicks will be in the library until the 2nd week in May.

Day 21 - We Have Hatchlings

We are so excited to share that we have hatchlings!!!!

So far we have had 8 out of 12 eggs hatch.

Here we have a picture of several chicks that had just hatched and a video of one of the chicks hatching!

 Here is a time lapse video of one of the eggs hatching. In real time this hatching took about 15 minutes.

Day 20 - Early Hatcher!

Exciting news!!!!

Even though technically tomorrow is day 21 (hatching day), we have one egg that has decided to hatch early!

The chick is using his egg tooth to slowly break through the hard shell of the egg!

You can watch the hatching live through our school Ustream account at

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hughes-chicken-hatching-live\