Exciting news from the Monster Teenies
Earlier this year we borrowed an incubator from a farmer friend and tried to hatch some chickens eggs. We were given 18 eggs from the same friend, all allegedly fertilized but nothing happened. We read rather more widely about it and went to another farm advertising free range eggs to get some more to try again. This time we started rather smaller with just half a dozen eggs, one of which we discarded after about 12 days having been candling them every few days after day 6 to check progress and turning them all 3 times a day.
Today is day 21 and unlike humans who have a very wide possibly due date right on schedule four out of the five eggs have developed cracks this morning. You can clearing hear cheeping from the eggs so we seem on track to have at least 4 little new lives entering the household in the next few hours. More photos to follow but here is a look at what we currently have:
and Teeny (5)
have never been to school or nursery. We began to think about Home Education about 5 years ago and have gradually combined education with our day to day life. For now we follow no structure, no curriculum and go wherever life - and our imagination - leads us.
This blog is an occassional record of where life has led us....
Exciting stuff, little chicks are so cute.
When will it be ready for the pot?
Comment by DaddyBean — May 16, 2007 @ 7:44 pm