Morgan Paulette working with students from Mrs. Alls' Classroom |
Morgan Paulette, Pulaski ANR Extension
Agent, and Chris Lichty, Pulaski 4-H Extension Agent, with the Virginia Cooperative Extension - Pulaski Office, spent the morning at
Pulaski Elementary School with five third grade and one fourth grade classroom
for the first 4-H Embryology Lesson and Egg Candling. Each classroom was provided a Brinsea Seven
Egg Automatic Incubator by the Virginia Cooperative Extension for the project
and seven eggs were set last week in each classroom incubator, Wednesday, April 19.
Morgan and Chris talked about the parts of egg
with the students and cracked an unfertilized egg to provide a more “hands-on” educational
experience. Morgan and Chris then
candled each classrooms eggs showing the students the chick development on Day
6 of the incubation period. Fifteen days
are left in the 21 day incubation period with hatching to occur beginning May
9.
Morgan and Chris will return two more times to each classroom, once next week for the second lesson and last candling before hatching, and then in two weeks to talk about the parts of the chicken, with the chicks in hand, and then how chickens are used in the agriculture industry from layers to meat chickens.
Morgan and Chris will return two more times to each classroom, once next week for the second lesson and last candling before hatching, and then in two weeks to talk about the parts of the chicken, with the chicks in hand, and then how chickens are used in the agriculture industry from layers to meat chickens.
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