Updates for the Chickens Can be Found on the 2023 Page

 This year all updates to the farm were made on the HHS  2023 Page.HHS 2023

HHS Chickens

 The HHS chickens have been farmed out to other farms as Mr. R Connor retires. As of June 22, 2023, the HHS farm has no more chickens. The Garden side of the farm is continuing. 

Coop Update

 The Nov 28th chicks were moved into the coop on December 21 and placed in the outdoor chick coop. The chicks have been free to roam in the coop with the big birds since last week.

Eggs were placed in the incubator on Jan 25th. We expect them to hatch on Feb 14.

End of the Year Update

 I have been a bit tardy on posting on this page.  We had a visit by a model school committee. In preparation for the visit, I made sure I had a hatching of chickens. We had 10 chicks hatch at the end of November in time for the Dec 1 visit. These chicks stayed in the classroom until winter break so they could be cared for by students over the break. The chicks were moved on December 20th out into the chick cage in the Coop.

10 Chicks hatch on November 28 for the Dec 1 committee visit.

Chicks moved into the Outdoor Coop

 The chicks that hatched on Oct 6 have been moved into a chick coop inside the outdoor coop. Period 7 students moved the chicks into their new home on Tuesday, Nov 1 during period 7.

Chicken Update Q1 2023

 In the first quarter of the school year, we sold 14 hens and gave two away. This was done in an effort to reduce the size of the flock. On the opposite to this, we had two hatches in Q1. On August 25 we had 10 eggs hatch and on Oct 6 we had 7 hatches.

We had 10 eggs hatch the first week of school on Aug 25th. These chicks were moved out to the Hen coop in late September to make room for another hatching of chicks planned for early October.

In the month of September, we had a two-week stretch of our weather hitting 95 degrees. During that time chicken egg production went from around 22 eggs a day to 4 or 5 a day. Happy to say we are back to around 17 eggs a day.

Way Behind Update: Foothill Knolls and Upland JR. High

 Chicken Update:

On April 22, 2022, we had Foothill knolls join us for a farm tour. We had anticipated their arrival by having 7 chicks hatched. Unfortunately, the chickens did not hatch until later in the day. 

Also on March 30th, the HHS Farm attended an event at Upland Jr High School.  Students from the farm class participated in the event and displayed some of our newest chick's hatches. We had 10 chicks hatch on March 30th in the AM.