It All Starts with an Egg

To celebrate spring The Early School of Temple B’nai Abraham welcomed Farmer Tom from Quiver Farms, Pennsburg, Pennsylvania who came to teach the students about animal lives and the chick hatching project. Farmer Tom arrived with a live rooster, Max; a hen, Ruby and all the necessary equipment¾ two incubators and brooder boxes ─ to take care of the 24 incubated eggs and chicks once they have hatched. Farmer Tom set up an incubator and presented a short presentation to the children. The children learned how to care for the eggs for the rest of the week by checking the temperature, turning the eggs, and keeping the water trough full. All the children were given the opportunity to pet the chickens.

Sometime on Monday the chicks will start to hatch. As they dry off the children will put the baby chicks in the brooder boxes as shown in the presentation. On Friday the chicks will be picked up and taken back to the farm. Incubating and hatching chicken eggs is a hands-on learning experience.

The children were very excited about the arrival of the eggs and were so happy with the hatching of the little, fuzzy chicks! View hatching

For information regarding The Early School program please contact Director Aronson Ziering at 973-994-7016 or e-mail dziering@tbanj.org. Non-temple members are most welcome to participate in all Early School programs

Shown: Farmer Tom introducing Ruby the hen to the Early School students, eggs in the incubator and newly hatched chicks