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Project Egg Liz, Eli, Amanda, Katie, Will and Claire For our MAKE project we had the experience of going through the whole process of hatching and caring for chicken and duck eggs. We created an incubator and we did the research needed to care for the eggs and chicks. We built a coop, we learned that sometimes things don’t always work the way that you planned, and we got the experience of caring for baby chickens. We came into this project with our minds set on hatching chickens from eggs. We knew that we needed an incubator and eggs. So we contacted a local school farm, Bower’s Farm, we told them that we were interested in hatching eggs for a school, so they gave us 12 eggs, which we put into our incubator. During the incubation stage we had to pay special attention to the eggs. We flipped them every few hours, as a mother chicken would do. We also built a chicken coop, a coop that will later be donated to Bower’s farm. But we soon hit a road block, we did not get as far as we had planned because the eggs were infertile. Which, when we contacted Bower’s farm, they said we pretty common with their chickens within the first few batches that their chickens laid in the spring. They suggested that ours was one of those batches. We wanted to know what we would do next, a few days after we learned about the infertility, we called back Bower’s Farm and asked if we could borrow some chicks to show our class what the chicks would have looked like if they were fertile. They trusted us to care for the chicks and have a warm box ready for them when they came. All the kids showed a real interest in the chicks. One of the things that made this project especially interesting was that we were a group that was separated between two classes. Although occasionally there would be something we would have to work out in the hallways or at lunch this part went off without a hitch. We left notes for each other by the coop and at our workspace. But if I were to work as a group like that again I would encourage documentation from both group even more, because you can never have to much documentation. Overall this project was an enriching experience, not only for the members of the group, but for everyone who expressed an interest. We know the project did not go exactly as we planned or we would have wanted, but it was still very fantastic learning experience. media type="youtube" key="7CFYOYveSd0" height="344" width="425"media type="youtube" key="uLb7_2t0wLA" height="344" width="425" media type="youtube" key="A8JHNNYRlj0" height="344" width="425"