Anxiously Waiting! {Birds & Eggs}

We have 29 chick eggs incubating!  Today is day 16…just 5 more days before hatching! {Or “patching” as one of the preschoolers calls it!}
Here’s our set up ~ on the kitchen counter. I love the new thermometer we’re using this year that allows me to see the temp and humidity inside the incubator (as opposed to one kept on the inside).  I can’t keep the humidity as high as it should be, which is normal I guess.
On the counter, we keep a laminated copy of this development chart to “see” how the chicks are progressing.

A peek inside!
We have pictures and videos playing on the digital picture frame. We have pictures of chicks from previous years, nests, birds, and a video of a chick hatching.  There’s also our book about a life cycle of a chick.

It appears we’ll have a good hatch! I was told the eggs are very fertile this year (or that a higher number of them were fertilized? Not sure on the terminology) this year. Also, the eggs are getting heavier and I can see by holding them up to a lamp that the eggs are dark, meaning growth inside. It’s so exciting to see movement inside!  We’ll have chicks hatching just in time for our Baby Animals theme.