April kicks off chick season for many classrooms across Henderson and Warren Counties. Local Ag in the Classroom Coordinator Anna Sharp says classrooms will be set up with fertilized eggs the first two weeks of April.
“United, West Central, M-R, and ICS- each will be hatching chicks in the classroom. And we provide incubators and Shimmin Farms will give us the eggs for it. And then I will deliver back all the chicks that we hatch. So, it’s a pretty good setup,” says Sharp. “We’re very appreciative of the Shimmin s for helping us do that getting those fertilized eggs enough to take care of all of those classrooms.”
The embryology unit through Ag in the Classroom allows kindergarten and third-grade classrooms to watch the chicken eggs develop over its 21-day incubation period.
