Drip Edge and 2nd Ply of Roofing Installed on Tiny Home

Today the students and I installed the drip edge metal and 2nd ply (final) roofing! For the edge metal we placed a second 9"strip of Flintflash and set the edge metal in a bonding agent and primed the edge metal. We nailed the edge metal at a min. of 6"OC.  We then laid the second and final cap sheet on the roof. On the cap sheet we nailed 16" OC at the 3 inch edge strip.

Chickens on Display with Cabrillo Elementary School

On Tuesday Feb 25  seventy-five Cabrillo 2nd graders came to the HHS farm for a visit. The chickens were well represented!

Silke update

We lost another silkie over the weekend. Again no sign of a predator. It did rain this weekend.

Designs featuring our chickens....from Megan Cavarez!

W5 Feb 24-28

W5 Activities:

7 New Baby Chicks arrived on Sunday, Feb 23. These chicks (six) were hatched from dark brown eggs and one from the Lavender hen.  We only had one of six blue eggs hatch.  During this incubation, the automated rocker had been turned off for some unspecified amount of time accidentally. This could have played into the low hatch rate?

W4 Feb 17-21

Update: We moved the baby chicks outside of room #1 into our chick hatchery in preparation of some new chicks soon to be hatched..

Feb 14 Chicks

Week 4 finds us just past the midway in February. The rainfall that appeared to be abundant in Dec and Jan fell far short in February possibly putting So Cal back into a drought.  Over the weekend we had one more Lavender chick hatch. Two out six.  A bit disappointing but we are happy to have the two!

This week.  I am hoping we can build one more individual chicken coop to go along with the two we completed last week.

We are up to an average of 10 eggs being hatched per day. In the month of Jan, we hit a low of 5 per day.  In the month of Jan, we had 224 eggs laid for an average of 7 eggs a day.

A seventh egg hatches

Six chicks hatched on Tuesday, Feb 11th. The chicks were from two blue eggs and four brown eggs. On Saturday Feb15 I found one more egg hatched from a Lavender hen. The egg was dated 1/24. 

Six new chicks

We had 6 new chicks hatched this week. Four brown eggs and two blue eggs. One of the blue eggs was from our Lavender pair.  The chicks were born on Tuesday, Feb 12th.

Tomato Trellis Complete

The tomato trellis that the students have been working on this week was completed. The trellis was made out of 2x4's and 2x6's with two 1" pipes run the length of the existing raised garden!

W3 Feb 10-14

We anticipate the eggs that were placed into the incubator on Jan 21 to begin hatching on Tuesday, February 11. For this batch, we concentrated on the blue eggs and dark brown eggs. One of our desires is to have more dark brown egg and blue egg layers in the flock.

We lost the white silkie over the weekend. I found the chicken dead in its cage on Saturday morning. I could not find any evidence of foul play from a preditor.

Rockstar has been hanging out in the quad area of the school away from the rest of the flock. He will defend his area from any other rooster and willingly allows the hens to scratch in the grass, a true gentleman.

W2 Feb 3-7

This week the students completed the construction of two new chicken cages inside the coop. When they completed the work we brought the January chicks from the cage just outside room 1 and placed them into the new cage.

Period 3 students move Jan chicks to HHS Farm

We bring the Jan 2020 chicks out to their new home in the coop. The students completed the installation of two new holding cages each 7' x 4'. And some finishing touches to the cages!