SSES Grade One

Yesterday we packed up our duckling friends and brought them back to the farm where we got the eggs five weeks ago. It has been a very exciting week in grade one and my house is unusually quiet today!! @SSEShrce

Growing ducklings need lots of food and fresh water!! Can you hear the excitement when we fill up their water? Our ducklings are headed back to the farm today where they will have lots of space to keep growing and make new friends!! @SSEShrce

Our ducklings have had a busy weekend swimming, playing in the grass and visiting neighbours (at a social distance of course!).

Ducklings have an egg tooth on the end of their bill to help them hatch out of the egg. It falls off a few days later because it’s not needed anymore. Some of our ducks still have it and some do not. Can you spot the difference? @SSEShrce

Putting our friends to work helping with online learning! Best home office team ever! @SSEShrce

Our 11 ducklings are all settled into their brooding box! They love to snuggle each other and snooze in a big duck pile. @SSEShrce

Our 11th duck arrived last night! What a lot of effort it takes to hatch, great job 11!! @SSEShrce

It’s a duck party over here!! We have had 9 hatch so far! They are exhausted when they come out and like to snuggle and rest up! @SSEShrce

And then there were four! You can see two more are getting close to hatching as well! The ducklings are all snuggled together with the eggs that are hatching 😊@SSEShrce

Hatching is hard work! Now for a little nap 😴. (Notice the movement in the egg next to them, they will soon have another friend!)

Day 28. We have our first two ducklings! Our Mother’s Day duck arrived last night and a second hatched overnight! Welcome to the world, our students will be so happy you are here!

Keeping a close eye on the eggs here! 9 of 13 have a pip and we hear lots of chirping! @SSEShrce

And so it begins! The first ducklings have made a pip (tiny hole) in their eggs. It’s their first step as they start to make their way out into the world.

Yesterday was Day 25 and we could see the ducklings moving into the air sac! They are getting ready to hatch! Now they are in “lockdown”, so we stop turning them and turn up the humidity and wait patiently while they do the hard work!