Hatching for our Nursing Home

[amberlavoelzke]

I'm a Assistant Director of Nursing for a small nursing home. I've brought in a small incubator and a few eggs from our kids 4H Show chickens. The plan is to keep the residents involved. And once hatched I'll leave them here in a small brooder for a few days to a week. I've Placed the incubator in the window of my office behind glass so the Residents can come by and peek in. but they are safe. I'm trying to hang signs of the development of the eggs day by day so they stay engaged. Does anyone have any chick facts day by day? Open to any other ideas to make this project even better.

I set them yesterday around 6am. I'm Going to hold activities where we candle them, on the appropriate days. We should be hatching Feb 1st-3rd.

 

[swamphiker]

Here's a bunch of information about the egg tooth that chicks use to help hatch, which I think is pretty neat: https://www.cacklehatchery.com/what-is-an-egg-tooth/