The Chicks

Leanne from Nore Valley Park came to our school and gave us seven eggs and an incubator. The incubator had to stay at 37 degrees. 

After a week we checked if there were chicks in the eggs. We put a torch up to the an egg and saw that there was a chick growing inside. There were chicks in 4 of the eggs. Fr. Quirke taught us that an egg with no chick in it is called a ‘glugger’. Leanne took the four gluggers and gave us three eggs with chicks in them. Now we had six fertile eggs.  They took about 21 days to hatch. Five out of the six eggs hatched. We had 2 yellow chicks, 2 brown chicks and one black chick. The chicks had to stay in the incubator for 3 -4 hours after they hatched to dry off. The chicks then got moved to the brood box where they grew so much in the week. 

Some of the chicks were very loud and were cheeping all day. Each class got to name a chick. We called the two yellow chicks Furball and Yellow Pecker, we called the two brown chicks Cleo and Bubbles and the black chick is called Chick-a-tee. 

Leanne came to collect the chicks on Friday 3^rd June. We all gathered in the front yard to wave goodbye to the chicks. We really enjoyed having the chicks in our school, watching them hatch and grow.

by Liam Dunne, 1st Class