First Candling!

Today is day 7 and we get to candle!  

Hmmmmmm, I wonder if our little baby birds, called embryos, are starting to grow and develop?  How can we find out? We wouldn't want to crack open the shell would we? 

No, no, no!  But if we could it might look something like this picture .

Candling is the name for shining a special bright light into the bottom of the egg inside of a dark room.  By candling our eggs we will be able to see the embryo, which will look like a dark spot, and some spider looking veins around it.  If there's just an outline of the yolk then no embryo is growing and developing.  Check out these pictures of our eggs from our first candling!

We made a chart to predict which eggs will continue growing and developing and will eventually hatch.  Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner are eggs that we could easily see the growing embryo.  Quitters are eggs that we could only see the yolk so there is no embryo developing.  Yolkers are eggs that we think are growing but aren't totally sure of, sort of maybes!

 Here is the link for the video from the zoom meeting between all the first grade teachers during the candling process:

Candling Zoom Video

Putting the Eggs in the Incubator!

I am labeling each egg with a number so that later we can keep track of our predictions on whether or not we think the chick is going to grow inside of the egg.

 Here are all the duck, turkey and Guinea eggs in the incubator.

Here are all the chicken eggs in their incubator.

And Two Ducks!

Our First Turkey!

Our second chick actually hatching!

Good Morning!

We have added Duck, Turkey, and Guinea Fowl Eggs to our incubator!