Just to let you know where I have been for a few weeks.
Needles and I tried a science project for one of Needles two sons (tadpoles for the other one) with some of my chicken eggs. We didn’t admit that we were so inexperienced at hatching chicks. Maybe even more so than the little scientist.
I’ve been extremely busy, birthing chickens. WOW, what an experience. Needles and I have learned so much. One of the things we learned was we ARE NOT VETS. Well, the baby chicks didn’t have a very good survival rate. They needed to hatch while Needles was at work. Bad timing.
They couldn’t break out of their shell. When a baby chicken is ready to hatch, they will start chirping through the eggs. That lets the hen know to help the baby chick by pecking the egg so the baby chick can hatch. My eggs are extremely hard because of the calcium I feed my chickens. We had a tough time. We had only one little chick survive out of 18 eggs.
I’m going to call social services in the morning to see if they have any special programs for handicapped chickens. I’m in
the process of making a wheelchair for the chick and I have to put a handicapped ramp in the coop. That poor chick may not be here but so many days. The chick stayed in the egg to long and became hypoxic.
Oh well. We tried and we learned how to hatch chickens. I had never hatched any so this was a learning experience. I will try it again in the spring. That’s when you need to hatch chickens anyway.
I’m sure Needles has told you about our adventures. Tadpoles are so much easier. Anyway. Just wanted to say Hi. I’ve got to get in the bed. 3A.M. comes early. Talk with ya soon. God Bless! Love, Chickenfarmer.
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Which came first, the Chickenfarmer or the egg? Sounds like you two have learned what does not work. Hopefully your next time will be a great success.
Congratulations on your efforts!
This story sounds an awlful lot like Prissy, the brave until the time:
“I don’t know nothin’ about birthin’ no babies” as Prissy said in Gone With the Wind.
But brave you two (nurses) are!!!!! I sure like the part about all the help you are seeking for the baby chick!!!
Dont feel too bad about the total you recieved being hatched, a teacher had 12 and only ended up with one also….and I think it had some learning disabilities….it kept steping in the little water plate she had put in there…it too needed a little help getting out of its shell…sad to say it didnt last very long…but now she too (the teacher)knows how to hatch eggs…but she said she doesnt think her heart could take it…she gets too emotional over each egg lost….like I said its good to see you’re back and maybe next spring we will hear a lot of chirps and cock-a-doodle-dos…..dj
I guess your little chicks needed a “HATCH-ET” to HATCH out of the eggs. Thanks for sharing your story with us. At least the little chicken didn’t come out crying, “the sky’s falling in, the sky’s falling in”.
Glad the tadpoles fared better!
It’s good to get the report about your hatching experiment even if the results didn’t turn out as hoped for. Science experiments often have a failure that sometimes leads the scientist to a new discovery. The great part is that you are trying again in the spring! God bless all your efforts!
I bet your children learned a lot about hatching chicks as well. They and you will love seeing the chicks when the spring batch hatches. Now that you have learned so much, I’m sure your will have quite a few chicks. I’d love to hear what your children are telling their teachers. I’d say its time for them to pen a book about their findings.
Always encouraging our little ones to be all that God wants them to be. Great idea for the book! A story can tell a lot. Jesus liked to tell them in parables and O how we learn from them.
I have enjoyed hearing about this science project as it has opened my heart to pray for 4 special little boys.
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go to this site and you can click and hear the chick chirp. Great site and full of fun. I got this from my daughter-in-law.
Bernard Meltzer wrote “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that yar are slightly cracked.”
HE MUST OF HAD NEEDLES, CHICKEN FARMER AND ME IN MIND.