Chickens on display at Fall Fest!

Many of our chickens were on display at the Fall Fest Festival Wednesday night October 30th.
The biggest hit were the baby chicks that hatched over this past weekend.

Lost a Hen last night

Turns out after a headcount, we did not lose any chickens. We have had some doves hanging around the farm recently.

Today we found part of a wing from one of the hens, it appears we had an attack last night by some type of predator in the garden area.  It appears to have been one of the Plymouth Barred Rock hens. We found the wing and other feathers near the kitchen sink area of the garden. Earlier this quarter I had purchased leg tags for the chickens, we will be placing them on the chickens so we can identify who is whom.

We have 4 new baby chicks!

Three chicks were born on Wednesday, Oct 23rd and one was born this morning Friday, October 25th.  All four chicks are mostly black in color. two have

Not familiar with this breed

We had a student bring these chickens to school awhile ago. We have had them in isolation. We do not know the breed of the chickens

Around the Campus

The chickens are making their way on to the campus early in the mornings.

These 6 chicks were born on and around the first day of school Aug 27-28.

Another batch of eggs placed in the brooder

On Monday, Oct 7th we placed eggs into the brooder. These eggs should provide us chicks for the Fall Festival being held on Oct 30th.

Updates:

We have 8 unidentified breed chickens currently in one of the pens. These chicks were provided by Jamir Bravo's family.

We have 6 baby chicks that were hatched on Aug 27/28 in another pen. We have two white, three barred rock hens and a greyish mixture hen. I am assuming now that they are all hens.

We have 3 baby chicks in a cage by room 1. These were hatched on Sept. 11th.  Originally there were 5 but two were given to an HHS family.

NOTE: We have not had a blue/green egg laid in several weeks.

Beth Boswell the school secretary has been providing the chickens dry mealworms in the AM. Now every AM we have a group of chickens visiting the office.