Ideas Please

[StarLover21]

Okay, I have no idea where this goes so I'm putting it here. I'm looking for a project to do involving chickens- I'm a girl scout, and I'm trying to earn a award. Any ideas?

I've gotten ideas below about research projects...but what i'm looking for is more of a project to help chickens or something.Like rescuing ex battery hens, or something.

Thanks!

 

[chickened]

Do a project on the life cycle of the developement of the egg from how it is made to how it becomes a chick. This is a great place to research it.

 

[Symboline]

Great idea...
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[TechnoCat]

another suggestion- try researcing how the breed of chicken started. Did they come from turkeys? Falcons? Birds, even?

 

[kfchickenlady]

these are great ideas, also, you could do the physiology of the hen as it pertains to egg laying.
Or, you could do a basic manual for a home laying flock from chicks to laying hens. Good luck!

 

[StarLover21]

Hmm...well, it's supposed to me more of a 'doing something project,' not a research project. Does that make any sense? Like rescuing a battery hen, or something like that. Thanks!

 

[Momhen]

Have you ever heard the terms - "pecking order" or "cock sure of himself"?? What about looking at the behaviour of chickens within a flock), e.g. the pecking order, and why it's necessary and how it works. What about comparing chickens to other birds - e.g. homing/racing pigeons, turkeys, crows and look at similarities and differences? Or look at how chicks learn from their mother - scratching, eating, roosting, etc.

 

[hemet dennis]

research what came first the chicken or the egg

 

[StarLover21]

anyone else?