FWCD Hatch-Cam

The hatching of FWCD’s 4-H Silkies was so exciting for students that the Hatch-Cam will now feature the Lower School science hatching. Barbara Meyers has been hatching eggs for 33 years: The first 10 years as a Kindergarten Teacher and now, for the past 22 years, as a Lower School Science Teacher. FWCD’s Lower School science classes are studying the lifecycle of chickens, which includes watching eggs from the beginning of the incubation process to hatching. The incubation cycle began on March 30 and takes 21 days until hatching. Expect to see some hatching activity around April 20 on the FWCD Hatch-Cam. 

The eggs incubating at this time are Blue/Black Ameraucana, Black Copper Marans, Blue Laced Red Wyandotte, Black Partridge Brahma, and some mixed breeds known as Olive Egger and Easter Egger. Meyers ordered them from a company called My Pet Chicken. The 48 fertile eggs were shipped USPS from North Carolina and spent one night lost in a postal office and another day riding around on the wrong track before making it to FWCD.