No Chicks

I brought back a heat lamp, waterer, and feed so we'd be prepared, fully expecting to see a few yellow fluffs wandering around the incubator when I got to school on Tuesday. Nope. Nothing. And today, still no chicks... 

I read online that they can sometimes hatch up to 26 days after incubation, which would be Friday. I'm worried our extreme temperature variations at the beginning (and that one time someone left the thermometer outside the incubator) have just been too much for our eggs. That would be a major bummer. The ducks/geese are slated to hatch this coming Sunday. Hopefully we have better luck with those.

We're down to only seven days left of school and just five academic days. I'm working on my last week of lesson plans. Weird. And a little sad. But there's too much other stuff going on to dwell on that for long!