The Eggs Have Landed

The eggs have been laid and are now safely in incubators in second and third grade classrooms around Robeson County. If all goes right the chicks (possibly as many as 360 of them) will be hatching around the week of April 6. Students and teachers are making sure to regulate the temperature and turn the eggs during the day, just like a momma hen.
In the meantime the youth will get to build an eggs ray viewer and look inside the eggs to see if the eggs are fertile and growing. They will also have the chance to crack into the hands-on learning portion when they crack open grocery store eggs and learn the different parts, like that white stringy thing that hangs off the yolk.
The 4-H staff is busy checking into classrooms and conducting Glo-Germ. Glo-Germ is an activity that teaches youth proper hand washing techniques. The youth put a special gel on their hands that makes the germs on their hands glow when placed under a black light. After they wash their hands they place them back under the black light to make sure they got all the germs off. We visited Ms. Brewington's second grade classroom at East Robeson on Thursday and they had some of the best hand washers yet. The students were very excited and grossed out by the germs they had and promised to properly wash their hands before they turn they eggs and after, as well as before lunch and after other important activities.
We will keep you up to date on the eggs hatching process and our fight against germs, with our great second and third grade student.