W1 Q3. Jan 27-31

We now start the second semester of school. This semester in class are main emphasis now will be on preparing the garden for planting and then planting our crop. In class last week we placed seeds in flats of approx 50 seeds per flat.  The city of Upland is in Zone 9 and we will monitor the weather and hopefully begin planting in mid February.

The following seeds have been planted:




Work still need to be done in the garden.

1. Complete raised garden bird protection

2. (this is new) make repairs to the center raised garden that was built last year by Chino Valley Water District personnel. The raised garden did not hold up very well. Corners have begun separating.

3. Repair any broken irrigation lines in the garden.

4. Continue work on the Compost pile(s)
 Quick note on the compost pile. Last week was the first full week with the black pool cover covering the pile. The last two readings on the pile show a temperature of 140 degrees at about 30" into the pile.

New Batch of Eggs in Incubator

The Silver Laced pair of chickens have produced 3 eggs so far and then along with our other blue egg layers plus a dark brown egg layer we have 12 eggs to incubate. The eggs were placed in the incubator on Tuesday, Jan 21 with an expected hatch date of Feb 10th.

Chicks moved out of Room 1 indoor coop to Outside

The chicks born on Jan 1-3 were moved to the outside chicken coop house just outside room 1 on Jan 10, Friday.  Students on that Friday completed the construction of the enlargement of the coop. The chicken coop had a small break on one of the sides. We decided to fix the break and add an additional floor to the coop. This was done to make viewing of the chicks easier. We will see how this works.

Chicks Hatch

We had 26 chicks hatch between Jan 1 & 3, 2020. These chicks were from either white or tan eggs. At the time these eggs were collected none of the hens that lay the blue/green eggs or darker brown eggs. The eggs were placed in the incubator on Thursday, December 14.

Inside Mr. Connor's classroom on Jan 22nd.

Sunset on January 1 and our roosters.

Our Black Easter Egger Rooster with the goats.

Rockstar our Brahma Rooster and our Maran Rooster

Sunset during the 2019 Rose Bowl Game. For all of Wisconsin to SEE!

Jan Chicks are Hatching! 9 So Far

We placed eggs in the incubator in mid-December to produce some chickens in January.