Absoluteley amazing!

9 eggs have hatched since we last posted! Yesterday at 1.45pm number 3 poked his beak out of a hole made in the shell. Cracks appeared in eggs 1 and 4 and then 7,8,9 and 6 were hatching!

1.55pm Chick number 3 broke off more shell

2.39pm Chick 3 hatched from shell

3.50pm Chick 1 begins pipping (pecking at the shell)

4.00pm Chick 1 hatched

Overnight 3 more chicks hatched and then this morning Miss Burley, Denise from the kitchen and Karrie saw even more.

When Y2 were visiting the chicks in the nursery this morning another one, number 9 out 10 hatched. Ms Dickens has transferred 5 chicks into the heated brooding pen where they have started pecking and left four behind with the last remaining unhatched egg to encourage it to come out!

There has been so much exciting activity in 24 hours. We have had such a huge success as we were told to expect about a third of the eggs to hatch.

Here is a photograph of the chicks that hatched first in the brooding pen:

Here is a video of the chicks in the brooding pen: