Help!! Chick is hatching 3 days before lockdown! Humidity low and turner still in!

[MadChickenMama]

We only do it in my kindergarten classroom because I took charge and made it happen! I remember doing it in school growing up and wanted my students to have the same experience.
One more hatched today and one is pipped! Hopefully more to come!

That's awesome! I can't imagine the kindergartners doing this at my son's school. They have them so crammed on time that there'd be absolutely no time to devote to hatching chicks. Good on you for setting all that up!

 

[seberger22]

That's awesome! I can't imagine the kindergartners doing this at my son's school. They have them so crammed on time that there'd be absolutely no time to devote to hatching chicks. Good on you for setting all that up!

I totally understand.
I'm in a private school now, and part of our philosophy is short lessons and more free play time for kindergarten. So there's space for us to enjoy things like hatching chicks

 

[Morrigan]

I think some schools don't do it because they are unsure of what to do with the chicks after they hatch, particularly if there are roosters.

 

[seberger22]

I think some schools don't do it because they are unsure of what to do with the chicks after they hatch, particularly if there are roosters.

Yes, that makes total sense. It's a lot of work! I also have a very small class, so I have the headspace for it. I could never have done this when I had 33 students in a class.
Luckily, the administrative assistant at our school has a neighbor with chickens and roosters who lets us have eggs and then takes the chicks back once they've hatched

 

[MadChickenMama]

Yes, that makes total sense. It's a lot of work! I also have a very small class, so I have the headspace for it. I could never have done this when I had 33 students in a class.
Luckily, the administrative assistant at our school has a neighbor with chickens and roosters who lets us have eggs and then takes the chicks back once they've hatched

Aah yeah, true about where to home them. When my middle sister's 3rd grade class did it, we were able to take 2 of the chicks home. My dad always loved us having animals and he had actually gone to college for poultry science in the hopes of taking over the family business his granddad had. Unfortunately they sold the business or something just before he graduated so he went into health inspection instead. We ended up giving our two chicks to my sister's classmate who had a little bit of land and a barn to and whatnot.

And omg, 33 students!!?? I can't even imagine. My son's class has 21 and even that's too much for his teacher and she has an assistant teacher in her class every day.

 

[seberger22]

Aah yeah, true about where to home them. When my middle sister's 3rd grade class did it, we were able to take 2 of the chicks home. My dad always loved us having animals and he had actually gone to college for poultry science in the hopes of taking over the family business his granddad had. Unfortunately they sold the business or something just before he graduated so he went into health inspection instead. We ended up giving our two chicks to my sister's classmate who had a little bit of land and a barn to and whatnot.

And omg, 33 students!!?? I can't even imagine. My son's class has 21 and even that's too much for his teacher and she has an assistant teacher in her class every day.

Yes. It was out of control. No aide either.
Support inner-city public school teachers if you can is all I can say! I couldn't do it, but I'm very thankful for those who can!

 

[ronott1]

on the hatch!

 

[Morrigan]

Yes, that makes total sense. It's a lot of work! I also have a very small class, so I have the headspace for it. I could never have done this when I had 33 students in a class.
Luckily, the administrative assistant at our school has a neighbor with chickens and roosters who lets us have eggs and then takes the chicks back once they've hatched

What a nice solution! Way back in my pre-chicken days when I lived the suburbs, a friend's daughter had an in-class hatch. Only one egg hatched and the teacher asked who wanted to take the chick home. Her daughter begged and begged ("I'll keep it my room, you'll never have to see it"), and Mom felt like a big meanie for saying no. I wonder what happened to that chick.