We had 15 little chicks hatch out of 19 (or about 80% hatch rate) which is fairly good. Most of the classrooms reporting in have had good hatches. Oxendine school dropped off their incubators today and I spoke with their principal and he seemed very pleased with how it turned out and they are looking forward to next year already. A few classrooms only had a few but have been able to trace the problems back to inconsistent turning, not enough water in the incubators or drafty locations. So far everyone seems to want to try again next year and we sure are looking forward to that. So far this year we have had a successful 4-H embryology project with our classrooms. 25 signed up for the first part and another 18 classrooms will take part starting Monday, April 20.
Probably the most notable difference for us this year is the number of teachers that are talking about the amount of support they are receiving from their principals this year. We have even noted more principals coming to pick up and drop off incubators, calling to ask questions, and making sure glo-germ is scheduled in their classrooms.
We must also note the excitement of Principal James Hunt at Fairmont Middle School. Nancy Baxley was working with the middle school curriculum to offer the project to her after school youth. She said Mr Hunt was so excited about the project he even made sure they had the web cam hooked up and I noticed one of the eggs had 212 on it in reference to the 212 degrees motivational piece that the school uses. When the eggs started hatching she told us that they were videotaping so that Mr. Hunt would not miss a moment of the excitement. All of us here in the 4-H program and with the Robeson County Center of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Office would like to send our thoughts and get well wishes to Mr. Hunt. We would also like to thank him and all the principals who support this curriculum, their teachers, and students through this learning process. We hope they enjoyed it as much as the students.
Stayed tuned...in another week we will start again in 18 more classrooms and 21 days after putting the eggs in we should have another batch of cute fuzzy chickens.
2 comments:
Congrats on the babies! We had our 2nd batch come in last week & they were cute as could be! They came from Mineral Springs, West Rockingham and Washington Street Elementary Schools in Richmond County!
Congratulations on all of the new baby chicks. That is totally awesome. Kool idea on the webcam. Wish everyone the best of luck on the next batch. Looking for to hearing about the next group.
Way to go!
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