Cupcakes and Ice Cream
Originally uploaded by librarian.laura
After the poster presentations and the sad "good-byes" to our little chicks, we had cup cakes and ice cream.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Chick Reunion and Poster Party
Chick Reunion and Poster Party
Originally uploaded by librarian.laura
Congratulations to all the Foster Chick Parents for a successful 10+ days of poultry husbandry!
For some, this was their first experience holding a small wiggly animal. Timid and a bit scared at first, the students changed and grew to become confident and knowledgeable poultry experts. Each student presented a photo poster of their experience with the chicks. The posters will be on display in Youth Services for the next month.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Watch Egg Hatch!
Egg Hatching Video 2008
Originally uploaded by librarian.laura
This is a video of a chick hatching in 2008. We had 22 of them hatch this year. Yeah!
If you want to see some of the 2011 hatched chicks "Live" you can watch them on the web cam until Saturday, May 6th.
http://www.zionsville.lib.in.us/hmmpl/page/egghatching
Zebra, Speakles and Sparkle
AR
Originally uploaded by librarian.laura
"Speckles has a black spot on top of his head. She likes to sleep in the food bowl.
Sunshine's feathers are bright yellow. She is very talkative.
Sparkles is kind of brownish and is very sleepy."
Queenie, William and Kate
BN
Originally uploaded by librarian.laura
"Our chicks are called William, Kate and Queenie. We chose those names as they are some of the Royal Wedding names, and we are English. Im not sure who is who yet...they are too busy sleeping!"
Sunday: Our chicks are growing so fast! Queenie is a lot smaller than William and Kate. They didn't eat much for the first two days but now they are so greedy...and so messy!
Beaky, Peep and Feathers
JJ2
Originally uploaded by librarian.laura
Peep, Beaky and Feathers get along well. When we put our fingers to the plastic
box/wall they like to peck at it. It is sooooooocute. We love them. We get to move them to our bedroom tonight. This is going to be fun! Bet there will be alot of peeping in our room! Especially from Peep!
Beaky, Peep and Feathers
JJ1
Originally uploaded by librarian.laura
Peep is very very very very peepy. That's why we named it Peep. Beaky is very yellow and
very sleepy.Feathers has very huge fluff!
Sunshine, Yucky, and Peepers
IB
Originally uploaded by librarian.laura
"I am so excited to finally get these little yellow fluff balls! They are so sweet!"
Fuzzy Fluffball, Fluffy
DM
Originally uploaded by librarian.laura
"I chose the names Fluffy, Fluffball, and Fuzzy. Fluffball looks most like a fluffball and is the most fluffy. I'm excited to babysit the chicks because they're the first animal that I get to take care of that I can snuggle and hold. I've only had fish before. The chicks feel so fuzzy and soft and fluffy!"
Last Two Chicks Hatched Today!
These last two chicks hatched today. We will let several of the chicks visit via web camera for the next few days. The eggs hatched earlier than we had planned.
Many chicks are in the care of our Foster Chick Care Families. We will get reports about their experience over the next couple of weeks.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Seven have hatched since 8:30 Monday Night!
The chicks started hatching last night after the library closed. This morning we came in and two had hatched. Within minutes another had hatched all before the library opened at 9:30. We have had a lot of spectators cheering on the chicks as they hatch out of their shells.
We have moved the chicks to a warm brood box with a lamp, water and chick starter feed. Matching the chicks to their shells was a challenge. The Welsummer hatched from the nice brown egg. It has stripes down it's back like a chipmunk. The Buff Orphington looks a lot like the Ameraucannas so we may have mixed the shells up. One more Ameraucanna is in the Hatcher drying off. It hatched at 1:30 on Tuesday. Many more to hatch!
Ameraucanna
Ameraucanna
Buff Orphington ?
Sumatra
Sumatra
Welsummer
Monday, May 2, 2011
Eggs in the Hatcher and 26 Baby Chicks Arrive in the Mail!
Doug Akers arrived with eggs this morning that are due to hatch this week. He regulated the temperature in the Hatcher so that it maintained 95-100 degrees and added water to a bowl to create the proper humidity. Now we wait until the chicks are ready to peck out of their shell!
The Foster Chick Care families are waiting for their babies. 26 of the 50 have arrived by mail this morning. They will remain under observation until they are drinking, eating, and rested. One by one the trained Foster Chick parents will arrive to pick up their charges for the next two weeks.
Several chicks will remain at the library so that we can all watch them grow and change until May 15th.
Stop on by and check out the Chicks!
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