Wagner Farm offers many field trip opportunities for area school children, even on a rainy day like today! Fourth graders from Wescott Elementary School in Northbrook, IL visited the farm today to learn all about cows, horses, and chickens. Milking Cows Pulling Plows is a trip designed for 2nd -6th graders to come and learn about farming in the 1920's. The children get a chance to work with our draft horses, milk a cow, and collect eggs from the chicken coop. Each area highlights the animals contribution to the farm and how that extends to helping the surrounding community.One of the program highlights is when the children collect eggs and learn how they would have prepared and sold these eggs to make money in the 1920's. The children also learn how to candle eggs. A light is held up to the egg and allows you to see inside the shell, almost like an x-ray machine. Candling eggs is done to find out if an egg is fertilized with a baby chick. Children have to decide if that is an appropriate egg to sell or perhaps keep in order to hatch out more chickens. What would you decide??
