Classroom project - hatching eggs. Noooooooooooo!!!

[karimw]

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Maybe you could offer some of YOUR eggs to hatch, then you might find the birds more useful

 

[chics in the sun]

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That really is totally irresponsible. I love the hatching project for a classroom, but a teacher should know to have plans for the chicks after they hatch, and sending a single baby chick home to an unprepared family is unacceptable. I would get ahold of the teacher and try and find out if there are more lonely baby chicks from the class that need re-homed - poor things.

 

[sgtmom52]

they'reHISchickens :

IN our county, this project is presented as a 4H Embryology project. The local 4H Extension agent who provides the eggs AND incubators AND lesson plans already has a home for those chicks that can't find homes.

They do this in my county too. They bring eggs from a local farm (owned by a 4H parent) hatch them in incubators supplied by the 4H under supervision of the 4H and when the chicks are hatched they all go back to the farm after the first week. None of the chicks are offered to the children.​

 

[twister]

chiming in here.... I am a mathematics teacher. I just purchased 25 CXs for my own personal use.. altho I am NOT hatching in the classroom, I am taking on another perspective and real life mathematics lessons of "the Chicken Chronicles"... First, I just want to say that I got these birds for my family with no intention to using or even mentioning them to the students...however , application wise, there is soooooo much math that can be learned by raising birds........
we are doing a cost analysis of weekly feed bill vs. weight gains and cost per lb, comparisons of weights, conversions of cups, qts, gal of feed an water weekly, conversions of weightsz, lbs, graphing growth rates, and our fav... estimating weights for the following week... temp. conversions and graphing over time and hourly wages if this were a business.
students see photos of my chicks weekly to see the growth. I am taking it from a business like perspective to the main question is to see if they think it is profitable. Altho it is not hands on for THEM , but very much so for ME... it is a very very real experience. I would be willing to share my experiences and send data/photos so that the educational perspective is not lost if the teacher is NOT able to do a hatch. Just an idea to throw in the mix to help w. the delimia of unwanted chicks.

 

[Kelly G]

6 of my EE are from a science teacher that hatched them last April......I told her I'd take them any time. Word seems to be getting around, and now I have 3 teachers wanting to send me their chicks.

No problem!!! I'll take 'em. This is VERY good for the kids. And for many kids - this is the only way to experience this kind of thing.

 

[tifflovill]

As an exceptional children's teacher I think that this is a very neat project to do for the children. My students require alot of hands on activites and I would not appreciate a parent that didn't have a student in my classroom questioning this. Why shouldn't this project be done? I have my own chickens, my own eggs, and I have someone who is taking the baby chicks. There is nothing wrong with this experiment perhaps you shoulndn't judge a teacher just because she is trying to get her students involved.

 

[KimmiLPS]

My granddaughter's class hatched eggs this year. Each child had their own egg (in a school class of about 100 kids total). They learned about the hatch rate, which was around 50%. Before the hatching even took place, the children were asking anyone if they wanted the chicks. It is a great experience for the kids, but not too many people in this town have BYC. I took 8 chicks. Have no idea what sex they are, but I know from experience that there are going to be some roosters. She knows what happens to roosters....soup! I have had chickens for 5 years, but did not have any at the time, so it is nice to have them again. I think the only rule that the teacher had was students could not take only one chick home, it had to be at least 2. Also, anyone taking chicks home had to have a note from their parents stating that they had the necessary equipment at home (feeders, waterers, coop, etc). They are about 12 weeks old now, so I should start hearing some crowing soon.