Aug30 Chicks moved to the main coop

 The Aug 20th chicks were moved to the main chicken coop on Sept 14th.  11 chicks in all were moved from room13 to the hen house.

Construction Class

 Today spent time winding up extension cords, learning how to use the speed square, learning how to use the chop saw, and learning how to use the drill press (only per 4)

Something Still Eating Eggs in Coop

 This week I spent time in the evening at the coop. One of the things I did was change the time to the automatic doors. Open door hours are now 6 AM to 7:30 PM. We adopted a rooster this week. The rooster came from one of the UUSD maintenance workers who had purchased four chicks from TSC at the beginning of summer. The rooster is an Orpington, orange in color the students call him OC.

On Sunday Sept 12 I went to the coop to collect eggs. On Sunday I only collected 16 eggs, and found 4 broken eggs. I had not collected eggs on Saturday and only collected 4 eggs in the AM on Friday. I was expecting to find well over 40 eggs.  I caught one hen that I suspect might be the culprit who is eating the eggs.

Chicks at 11 days old!

The cage hangs out in either Mr. Connor's room 13 or in front of room 1 during the school day.

 

Something Eating Eggs in Hen Box

 Over the Labor Day weekend I only made it in to the farm in the AM. On both Sunday and Monday mornings I found broken eggs in the hen box. A total of 10 eggs were found damaged. I suspect I have a cannibal in the group. One of the hens is liking the egg.

Baby Chicks hatched on Aug 30th

 We had 11 chicks hatch on the HHS Family farm on Monday, Aug 30th.  Nine of the chicks have feathered legs.