Birth...

We were very lucky to be able to hatch eggs in my classroom. We started out with 10 eggs. They sat in an incubator for a few days and then began to hatch.



This is the firstborn. His name is George (for St. George's Cross on the English flag) and he is a rooster. He was born on Wednesday, 23 June at 11:45 am.



After George came Defoe. She is names after Jermaine Defoe, the English player who scored a goal during the England vs. Algeria World cup, which was playing in the school hall on the Wednesday the chicks hatched. There were tons of parents that came to watch with their kids and lots of traffic looking for chick updates. She was born at 3:45, at the very moment that Defoe scored the goal. Thus, her name.


This is the third chick, June, working hard to hatch.


The very wet pathetic looking chick is June, born at 4:45.

And finally, Wednesday was born via Caesarean at 5:30. It was looking very much like he was not going to finish hatching at all, so I helped him out a bit. I like to think he still did the work, but just had a bit of a helping hand.

Out of our 10 eggs, only those 4 hatched. So we had 3 roosters and a hen. To tell them apart we coloured their heads. George we coloured red, June blue, and Wednesday green. As Defoe was the only brown chick, she didn't get a coloured spot. Yet anyway.