Day: June 9, 2024

Once again we have 2 more new hatches today!  Egg #11 and #10

Number 10 needed some help as he was open for a long time and the inner membrane was dry and attached to its body.  It also was stuck in the bottom 1/2 the shell since Saturday. I moved it to the other incubator so the other chicks wouldn’t step on him (as you know they like to crawl all over each other, especially when they are learning to walk). Here is number 10 resting after its long hard birth. Let’s hope it is ok and survives!  We will need a big survival or fighter name for it. Any suggestions???  Email me some suggestions at denise.silva@burnabyschools.ca

Here are a few names I looked up:

Anakin means warrior                                          Magnar means a strong and fierce warrior who survives

Clovis means the one who fights for survival       Louella a strong fighter

Good morning Div. 8,

Well it is happening…

We have new life coming from the eggs in the class incubator.  On Saturday June 8th, Egg #9 decided to poke its head out. 

YES, you heard that correctly EGG #9 was the first egg to hatch from our class incubator! Who guessed that EGG 9 would be the first one to hatch?

The second egg to hatch was #3 and then #4. 

3 hatches on Saturday June 8th.

We have had a very busy 3 days!  We now have 7 chicks that have hatched from the incubator I had at home, as I needed to monitor it due to the humidity and temperature fluctuations. The 3 newborn  chicks and the incubator were brought to school on Thursday June 6th.  We had 2 more eggs hatched in the evening at roughly 4:00pm and 5:10pm.  Chick #7 hatching was caught on video!  See below.  Div. 8 students were super excited to meet them.  The next morning when I arrived at school at 7:00am there were 2 more in the incubator that had either hatched sometime in the late evening Thursday June 6th or early early morning of Friday June 7th!  Div. 8 now has 7 new chicks!

Here is the video link to chick #7 hatching.  Enjoy it is pretty incredible!

Day 20:  Today our chick will begin to show its internal and external pip.

The internal pip is when the chick has finally, through a lot of hard work, made that initial break into the air cell with it’s beak.

The external pip is the first visible sign of the hatch. That little “bump” in the shell. The little crack that you aren’t sure you are seeing. That first hole. The chick’s attempt to make a connection with the outside world.

Look at what is happening today at home:  Look at #3

As I was walking in my kitchen I could hear the slightest little “peep, peep” and I instantly ran to the incubator, which happens to be sitting on my kitchen counter, and looked super closely at all the eggs and to my surprise it “peeped” again.  It was #3 starting to make a little hole in the shell.  Here is a little video of this: