Relaxed Farming - our farm in your classroom

Twenty-four hours later: the first day is very quiet, the chicks stay under us drying off and recovering from all the hard work of breaking through their egg shells. Amazingly they don't need to eat as the remains of the egg yolk are now a part of their abdomen and they live off that for at least the first, if not second day. We are getting a bit peckish by now as we may not have eaten for a day or two but we are concentrating SO much on keeping our chicks warm and safe we don't worry!!

Sometime on the second day after hatching, we encourage the chicks to come out from under us and face the world. By now they are definitely very cute and our owners (who have had to almost sit on their hands to stop themselves from taking a sneaky peek under us) now go 'ooohh' and 'aahhh' when they see just how pretty and fluffy our chicks are. We all now have a good feed and drink and slowly but surely we start to show the chicks what their new world is like.