For those of you following me along the chicken saga (or shall we say drama...)...we had 10 eggs incubating nicely at City Mission Academy. We shook them three times a day and kept the water channels full just as instructed. We were told shaking them rather than turning them was more like a mother hen and we wanted to be the best mother hens we could be. We candled them along the way. That's where you hold a flashlight up to it to see the baby. Of course we were convinced that we saw some, ha, not. Well after day 25 the last possible day they could hatch we cracked them all open to find nothing other than egg yolks. Don't worry we didn't promptly make scrambled eggs for breakfast. Much disappointment but we decided life will go on. I was going to keep two of those 10 chickens, Libby and Rosie were going to nest at my house. But, because of all circumstances the chicken drama was put on hold.
However, Miss Amy, our wonderful garden lady says we will get eggs to hatch come hell or high water. She may have been so strong to say her life depends on it. She took the incubator home yesterday to try it on her own. Then, when the kids come back for school in July we'll try a new batch too see what we can do. Maybe we weren't the best shakers! Regardless, we'll continue to expose kids to things like caterpillars (which will hatch in 3 more days) and chickens because i think it will help them become they best they can be (that's how important these chickens are...)
Chickens and Caterpillars,
Jessi
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