A Field Trip Visited Our Chickens...

[Granny Hatchet]

just say NO !!! hahahah let their moms explain that one. of course they are gonna come with , why not? heres a lesson for them ,, tell them because there not married. lol i feel for you

it really depends on the age of the child.

 

[PrairieChickens]

Well, it was an interesting challenge because some of the kids were farmer kids, and they knew exactly what was going on, but other kids were a little freaked out by the roosters chasing the hens around. They thought the young roos were attacking the girls, and I had to explain they were trying to be romantic, but weren't very good at it yet.

When we start the class, we'll actually discuss chicken reproduction, and the kids will get to collect eggs to put into the incubator and watch hatch. The way I explain how babies are made is I tell them boys have part of what you need to make a baby and girls have the other part, and if they put those parts together, a baby can form. I'll then explain how eggs form inside of the hen's reproductive tract, and how chicks form inside of the eggs.

The conversation I had recently that I found the funniest was when I was trying to explain to one of my students why I can't have so many roosters. She was upset at the idea that we'd be eating some of the roosters and wanted to know why I couldn't keep them all.

I said "How many boys are in your class?"
"A lot," she replied.
"And they're annoying, huh?"
"Yessss," she agreed.
"It's like that for chickens, too," I explained. "The boys pick on the girls and can even hurt them on accident. They'll also get into fights with each other trying to impress the girls, so we can only have one or two roosters at a time."
She seemed to understand, so I added, "Wouldn't it be nice if there was only one boy in your class?"
"Yeah!" she said, then added "...but we can't eat them."

I cracked up XD

 

[Granny Hatchet]

hahahah. good times. im glad you can do this for the children, its awesome.