Thursday, April 2, 2009

The Chicks Have Arrived!

Thanks to the UC Davis Avian Department, we have had the privilege of hatching Japanese quail. We started incubating the tiny eggs on the evening of March 16th. 16 days later, on April 1st, we had our first little quail hatch. We deemed him "Early Bird". Since then, we've been able to watch 15 little cuties come into the world. Please check out the pictures and enjoy the video(ignore the audio)!

*Thanks so much to Jennifer for allowing the children to have this beautiful experience!
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10 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 2, 2009 at 2:56 PM

    I can't wait to see how much our quail grow during spring break! Mrs. Mullikin

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  2. AnonymousApril 2, 2009 at 8:41 PM

    My husband says that this is very cool. In his third grade class all they ever did was boring stuff.

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  3. AnonymousApril 13, 2009 at 3:58 PM

    I wonder, when do they get tail feathers? From Jorge

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  4. AnonymousApril 13, 2009 at 5:03 PM

    so little, so cute! from ben

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  5. AnonymousApril 13, 2009 at 5:41 PM

    I love your little movie on the previous page. I also love the little quail in the basket. Bye for now. I might go on tomorrow.from Celeste

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  6. AnonymousApril 13, 2009 at 8:32 PM

    Thank you Mrs. Mullikin for letting us have this experience.

    Thank you Mrs. Ruiz for buying the incubator and spending your time to set everything up for the polar bear class 2009.

    Lastly, I like the graphics on the first little show.
    Grant

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  7. zoeApril 14, 2009 at 11:00 AM

    they are so cute and soft!!!! now they are soooooooo big and chubby, but they are so so so so so funny

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  8. sarahApril 14, 2009 at 11:01 AM

    the chicks come out of the egg sooo fast.

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  9. AnonymousApril 14, 2009 at 11:07 AM

    Thank you so much Mrs.Mullikin for letting us have quail in our class room and thank you Mrs.Ruiz for getting the quail for us and letting us use all of your suppiles for the quail
    -Katie

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  10. AnonymousApril 17, 2009 at 3:35 PM

    I am surprized how big they have gotten from when they were little babbies.This is a cool project Mrs.Mullikin.I think everybody in the whole class is having sooo mush fun with the quails!You are the best teacher ever! Thank you soo much Mrs. Mullikin for letting us hatch quails in our class room and thank you Mrs.Ruiz for giving us the quails to hatch!

    Hannah Nauertz

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