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I am thinking about buying an egg hatching kit as a project to do with my granddaughter. I am wondering, however, what to do with the baby chick after it hatches. Any tips about hatching an egg?
No animal should be brought into the world, or purchased, as in the easter chicks/bunnies/ducks, on a whim or just for fun
If you don't intend to raise it and keep it or raise it and eat it- don't make it. Think about what this is teaching your granddaughter- that animals are disposable.
Just release it into the woods. It will either make it or become part of the food chain. You might want to get with a farmer at the local farmers market and have an understanding that you want to use one of his eggs and hatch the chick and give it back. Thats a suggestion.
What Rose said - an animal is not a toy. A single chicken or rooster is going to be a PITA to care for far beyond the benefit. If you can do the "hatch and give back" with a farm, that *might* work.
Maybe hatch a small reptile that you can keep as a pet?
Harsh comments, but I fear it will die quickly if you don't have any idea what you are doing, and then the tawk will be on another topic, some people don't like small children to deal with.
A fish tank with guppies might work better, and you may have better results in their lives.
In case you have no idea on that the guppies are fish and the female lays eggs, while the male swims near the eggs to fertilized just the eggs and he does not ever realy touch the female.
Could be a lot easier to explain things. The eggs will hatch and if you have created the right envro they may thrive to make more little guppy fishes.
Hatching one chick is kind of sketchy. There's a pretty high rate of mortality and embryo development that just stops at a certain point. If you're serious about wanting a live chick out of the process, you're probably going to want to start with more than one egg.
When we hatch them at school we 1) always arrange homes for the chicks well ahead of time and 2) incubate 24 or so with the expectation that maybe you'll get 15 chicks. (We were lucky last year and got 21 live hatches and not a single post-hatch death).
Well lifes lessons will be interesting, I suggest no less than 1/2 dozen chicks and some reading before it all happens. or you will be talking about the dead. You will need rather a lot of equipment to be successful. Think very warm.
My wife who is an elementary school teacher gets a dozen or so fertilized duck or chicken eggs every year from a local hatchery and incubates them till they hatch,then returns them to the farm where she got the eggs once the chicks are about a month old,its a real learning experience for the kids as they learn about life and death in a very natural way,expect several eggs not to hatch and a few chicks will die..
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