Road trip for 12 day olds w/ mom TOMORROW ????

[sevenofus]

Feel free to tell me this is a really bad idea but also, please tell me anything I can do to make it better for them.

I rarely have to bring my oldest daughter to Kindergarten but I have to tomorrow. I though it would be a nice surpise to bring the new mom and her babies into the class room - There is a table for her cage to stay on, I'll bring the heat lamp, food, water, I'll cover the cage between the car and the class room to keep the draft to a minimum. Only I will hold the chicks, but I would be letting them kids pet them one at a time. I have 4 smaller kids so I'm pretty well trained in managing the excitement of the kids. I see lots of posts about vitamins and sugar water, etc. that I don't know anything about so I wanted to make sure that if there was something I could do to make as good as possible for them that I know about it ahead of time. And for any of you teachers out there, she knows, it was her idea!

Thanks for your advice and wisdom.

 

[bock]

That has bad idea written all over it.

 

[Katy]

Does not sound like a good idea.

 

[smallcitychick]

I don't see why this would be a bad idea? I think it would be great! As a former teacher, and someone with young kids (I quit teaching to be a stay at home mom) I think this is a awseom way to introduce young children where food comes from!!! Good thinking ahead too (keeping out drafts, and not letting the Kindergartner's hold them, etc....) You might want to put a towel on the bottom of the cage you're transporting them in, just so they can have some 'grip' and not slide around during travel. Your chicks are over a week old...that's older than the chicks I brought home from the feed store (over an hour drive in a tiny cardboard box with no heat), and older than the tiny chicks that are being shipped to me in the mail. I'll bet you'll have a 'great question and answer' period with them too. I also haven't worked with vitamin or sugar water, so maybe somebody else could help with that?

 

[muscovy94]

I did this with my son when he was in kindergarten and first grade. We brought in some baby chicks for the class to see. They even spent a couple of nights in the class room and they were fine. And they didn't have a heating lamp. I don't see why it would be a bad idea.

 

[chickensducks&agoose]

I brought our 6 day olds to my son's 1st grade, it was totally fine. We only stayed about 20 minutes, but the kids got to see (not touch!!!!) baby chicks, and they are all totally fine. How long are you planning on being at the school?

 

[sevenofus]

For those of you who think it's a bad idea, can you tell me what your concerns are?

They will be there just during the school day, 9-1 and then come home with us.

 

[bock]

Well, my broodies DO NOT like anyone to touch her chicks, so having a broody watch a bunch of little kids "attack" her babies would probably make mommy go crazy.But maybe not

 

[Katy]

I guess my main concern would be how the broody is going to react to being hauled around and in a new place with her chicks.

 

[sevenofus]

Thank you all for your thoughts and your time!