What an exciting week we have had!
After setting up our incubator and adding 7 fertilised eggs we waited patiently and counted the 21 days down. We finally crossed out our last day on Wednesday and watched the hatching commence. While we waited, we set up our cage and made a bed for the new arrivals. Of course they were going to need food and water so we had lots of helpers getting things ready!
On Wednesday afternoon it all began with lots of cheeping coming from inside the eggs and then we noticed a tiny little crack in the shell. Soon we could see a pointy beak poking out and the egg was wiggling a lot as the chick tried to get out. Eventually we were delighted to see a little wet and very tired chick. Setting it gently under the heat lamp to dry into a fluffy, yellow and very noisy chick, we watched and waited for its brothers and sisters to hatch... we didn’t have to wait too long🐥🐥🐥
On Friday we asked the children to come up with some names for the chicks. There were lots of great suggestions but after a lot of deliberation the chicks were finally named Fluffy, Chirpy and Sweetie.
