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We got two chickens overnight and one at 7.30am, I captured this on video as some of the kids had not arrived yet! We have two still pipping and a class full of students who are super excited.! For the first time I got to see another chick appearing to assist another out of the shell, it was...

Thanks Country Godess, wow thats very interesting on human birth, I wonder if that happens here, make for crazy days in the birthing suite!! Stop motion video (set to take a photo every 10 seconds) will be posted as soon as I can... Didn't tell the students I was planning in setting it up...

I'm typing this whilst sitting beside my classroom incubator, containing chicken eggs (a mixture of breeds from the local farmer) at 6pm. Pipping started this morning and not much progress has been made and i'm nervous! I have done this so many times, but theres always the class of kids you...