Let the names Begin!

We have officially started our name voting competition. We've been receiving some really great names so far - Spongebob, Nugget, Rex, Chuck, McDonald,  Harry Plopper. Do you have a name that you think is better than that??? If so - send back your yellow form (if you are on the East Henrietta Campus)! If you are not on our campus, feel free to send an email: SCordeiro@marycariola.org. We will take as many name suggestions as we can get. The last day we are accepting names is May 11th! Our top 12 names will be released the Monday before the chicks are due! Thanks for participating!

We are most excited about...

 This morning we talked about what we are MOST excited about doing/hearing/seeing when our chicks hatch...look at the pictures below to see our answers!

I am excited to feed them! I think they eat dog food, their food needs to be little and I don't think they eat a lot!

I am excited to take pictures of them hatching. I think they will be yellow and big!

I can't wait to share them with all of our friends at school. I will let everyone hold them and pet them.

I can't wait to watch them grow - I think they'll be HUGE

I can't wait to watch them play. I think they play quietly and run around.

I can't wait to see them  hatch. I think it will take a long time for them to get out and they'll be fluffy as soon as they hatch!

Classroom Jobs

 We like to keep everyone updated on our Peep Project! It is someone's job everyday to change the number of days until our chicks hatch! We keep it posted in the hallway for everyone to see.

Mrs. O'Reilly's 3rd Grade Class!

When we got to school today, we had this really cool letter from Mrs. O'Reilly's 3rd grade classroom in Canandaigua! They are following our blog and are very excited to see our chicks hatch. We read the letter and the names they sent us, the names made us laugh!

We hung the letter out in the hallway for everyone to see!

Why do we have different colored eggs?

There are 3 different "egg color" genes- and different breeds have different genes. The brown eggs come from breeds that lay brown eggs, these are from Plymouth Rock hens and Silver Laced Wyandotte hens. The blue eggs are from a breed that has the blue egg gene- these are Amerucanas, or also known as "easter egg" chickens- they lay all sorts of colors, from turquoise, to robin egg blue, to greenish, olive, and sometimes even pink!

Plymouth Rock Hens (Brown Eggs)

Silver Laced Wyandotte Hen - Brown Eggs

Amerucanas - Blue Eggs "The Easter Egg Chicken"

The Eggs have arrived!!!!!!

Thanks to Jessica Decker of Double Decker Rabbitry, our eggs have arrived!

12 chicken Eggs!

Our Incubator is ready for the eggs - we installed our automatic egg turner so we don't have to manually turn the eggs four times a day!

Adding water to our incubator to keep our humidity level up!

Placing the thermometer on top of the eggs to make sure that it stays at 99.5 degrees in our incubator.

Ready to go!

The stages of Chick Development, this well help us to see what our chicks look like each day that they are in the incubator.

It's that time of year again

The weather is getting warmer, the lilacs are blooming, and the birds are chirping....which means, it's time for us to start our hatching project! Next Wednesday (April 25th, 2012) we will put LOTS of eggs in our incubator. We are very excited to begin our journey and we hope that you all enjoy following along with us. We will update you every day with pictures of us taking care of our chick eggs, preparing our classroom for their arrival and all the steps in between. We will be voting on names again this year too! See you soon :-)