Our baby chicks have hatched and oh what a miracle to watch. My children absolutely love and adore this study unit at the end of the school year. They patiently wait, pleading and begging with me to "get" the eggs for hatching. This year we stepped up our game a bit and took on 30 eggs. We purchased a bigger incubator and I attempted to remember to turn these eggs every eight hours. Some days I was great and a couple of days I would forget.

After one week we candled the eggs to see  who had started to form. Right away we could see a number of baby chicks starting to form and there were a number of duds as well. There were also a number of eggs whose shells were so dark we simply couldn't see anything. My job suddenly became a bit easier as I didn't have as many eggs to turn {or forget to turn}.