Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[TNBEARCHICK]

hmm... interesting. I have found chickens in weird places but none in my car. I did however leave my trunk open last summer after going to the farmers market and coop ( I was taking bags of feed to the barn) and when I came back the chickens had started pecking and eating all of my produce I just bought.

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

You guys are hilarious today!

I'll share, too. I had a couple students out to the farm to give them some space to do plant collections a couple years back. It was spring semester, and I had mama hens with newly hatched chicks. One senior biology major watched all the chickies run under mama, then squeed, "Awwwwwww, so cute! Do they nurse?" I waited for her to do the "duh!" thing and catch herself, but she never did. I simply looked at her and said, "No. They're birds." She returned to happily watching the chicks. Sigh.

I'm ashamed to say she graduated. I have no idea what she did afterwards.

But now I'm curious how many other educators are in here. ProfTi does Psychology and Sociology. I teach Biology. Mrheinz teaches Sciences. Who else? Surely there are more of us!

 

[Sahwithchicks]

Well. I am pretty sure I know how she got
In my car, and it wasn't for a long time. I got home from the feed store, let the baby out of his car seat to run around while I unloaded the trunk. I am sure I left the door open, the chicken decided to check things out, and the baby closed the car door. It was just so funny I had to post pictures of it!!

 

[madamwlf]

justhatchin is cleared.

 

[AyeUpChuck]

Does anyone have to deal with or have tips for red clay stains? We have it all over out here. Clothes, boots, floors and even my hands/fingers are suffering! I need to figure something out. Hands are my fault for not always using gloves to dig in the dirt. It almost looks like orange nicotine stains!

Maybe vinegar and soap? The grout on the floors is the worst for sure! Any advice would be appreciated!

 

[rbaker0345]

You guys are hilarious today!

I'll share, too. I had a couple students out to the farm to give them some space to do plant collections a couple years back. It was spring semester, and I had mama hens with newly hatched chicks. One senior biology major watched all the chickies run under mama, then squeed, "Awwwwwww, so cute! Do they nurse?" I waited for her to do the "duh!" thing and catch herself, but she never did. I simply looked at her and said, "No. They're birds." She returned to happily watching the chicks. Sigh.

I'm ashamed to say she graduated. I have no idea what she did afterwards.

But now I'm curious how many other educators are in here. ProfTi does Psychology and Sociology. I teach Biology. Mrheinz teaches Sciences. Who else? Surely there are more of us!

When I was in college, I decided to take a paleontology course and we took a field trip where we found some fossils (mostly bivalves, some rugose coral).

I brought them home (to my dorm room) and the girls that I lived with who, were largely inner city, very religious girls, were amazed and asked me how the shells got into the rock. When I told them how and that the shells had been there for about 125 million years, they refused to believe me. I mean, they steadfastly refused to believe me.

I am not a teacher, but I am a 4-H leader and I can tell you I worry about my childrens science education. If I had the time, I'd homeschool them.

 

[rbaker0345]

Does anyone have to deal with or have tips for red clay stains? We have it all over out here. Clothes, boots, floors and even my hands/fingers are suffering! I need to figure something out. Hands are my fault for not always using gloves to dig in the dirt. It almost looks like orange nicotine stains!

Maybe vinegar and soap? The grout on the floors is the worst for sure! Any advice would be appreciated!

Vinegar won't work because its not a calcium carbonate base. Clay is a sillicate with other metal oxides mixed in. The thing that makes clay, clay is that it has extremely small particles. Red clay is colored by the rust in the rock it came from.

I have never had this problem before, but I would try to create some sort of colloidal suspension to lift the particles out, maybe soak with dishsoap and then wash with bleach?

Though, maybe I'm wrong, maybe the vinegar would work to depigment the rusty particles.

We need a geologist for this question, I am but a humble biologist.

 

[caj1985]

Anyone want to explain to me how this happened??

Silly sly hen

I had two of those in my Cougar Hatchback this morning. I was taking Marans cockerels to meet krazykat when they escaped the cage. I had two 9 week old cockerels walking around in the back of my car during 20 minutes of my trip. The interesting part was trying to get the cage out of the hatchback without them escaping and then crawling into the two door car trying to catch them. I know the people were calling me a crazy redneck woman.

 

[chickenbelle]

You guys are hilarious today!

I'll share, too. I had a couple students out to the farm to give them some space to do plant collections a couple years back. It was spring semester, and I had mama hens with newly hatched chicks. One senior biology major watched all the chickies run under mama, then squeed, "Awwwwwww, so cute! Do they nurse?" I waited for her to do the "duh!" thing and catch herself, but she never did. I simply looked at her and said, "No. They're birds." She returned to happily watching the chicks. Sigh.

I'm ashamed to say she graduated. I have no idea what she did afterwards.

But now I'm curious how many other educators are in here. ProfTi does Psychology and Sociology. I teach Biology. Mrheinz teaches Sciences. Who else? Surely there are more of us!

I teach math on the elementary/middle school level. My Master's is in administration, but I have not yet decided to make the switch into anything administrative. Between family and animals anything administrative would be too time consuming for me.

I do know a lot of "professionals" who graduated college---no idea how they made it that far.

 

[chickenbelle]

When I was in college, I decided to take a paleontology course and we took a field trip where we found some fossils (mostly bivalves, some rugose coral).

I brought them home (to my dorm room) and the girls that I lived with who, were largely inner city, very religious girls, were amazed and asked me how the shells got into the rock. When I told them how and that the shells had been there for about 125 million years, they refused to believe me. I mean, they steadfastly refused to believe me.

I am not a teacher, but I am a 4-H leader and I can tell you I worry about my childrens science education. If I had the time, I'd homeschool them.

It isn't the science education they received---it is the lack of parenting and life experiences for many inner city kids. Parents are either too messed up to care or they're busting their back sides working multiple jobs--either way they aren't home to GIVE their kids any experiences they need to be able to comprehend what they learn in a classroom.