Monday, April 26, 2010

Our CRAZY Incubating Project....

We decided it would be fun to incubate some eggs for easter time! And let me tell you, this was such a great learning experience. It was a RIOT!

Here is how our big idea played out...

WENT TO THE FARM
PICKED OUR EGGS
(Yes, RIGHT out from under the chickens tail feathers...)
TAKING OUR SPECIAL EGGS HOME
PUTTING OUR EGGS IN THE INCUBATOR
Then Wait, and Wait. (turning these babies twice a day, & looking at them under a "candled" light) WAIT 21 DAYS... until:
WE HEAR CHIRPING!!!!
Then the amazing hatching proccess:
PIP
ZIP
HATCH!!!
oh boy, i wish you could have HEARD us cheering him on and praying for him when "Mr. Stripey-Stripe" was trying to break out! He flopped around with the shell stuck on his head for a while, but it was QUITE the show!
DRYING in the INCUBATOR
BROODING OUR CHICKS
OUR HATCH:
little mother-hen gathering her chicks under her... princess dress?

6 comments:

Shae said...

love it!!

Kattie said...

You rock my world:) Its offical, I am sending my kids to live with you, they will have a much happier life! Where on earth did you get an incubater???? Please tell me that somone let you corrow it.

Megan G. Wiseman said...

Egg-cellent!!

Kent, Krista and Family said...

See, YOU ARE AMAZING! I want to do fun things like this with my kids. Where do you come up with these things?

Tauna said...

Egg-cellent....I love it! That was some serious fun!! thanks for sharing the experience with us. Those are way cute pictures too!!

Becky said...

So much fun! Thanks for letting me egg-sit those eggs for a few days along with your darling chick farmers.
Love, Gramby