New chicken manager at a new school!

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karen42

karen42

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Aug 27, 2015
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Hi everyone, I started a new job at a school about a month ago. I've never cared for chickens before, but I replaced the former chicken manager at the school, so I inherited the exciting and exhausting duty of learning everything I could about chickens right away! When I arrived, we had 5 roosters and about 13 hens. A week into it, I discovered two dead hens after a raccoon had broken into the coop and lost two more before we caught the little bugger. I've since found homes for two of the roosters, and working to find homes for the rest of them soon. It's been great to have the kids back at school, because they know 1000x more about chickens than I do!
 
Hello there and welcome to BYC!
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Yes, chickens sure will train you up right if you hang out around them long enough. So sorry about the coon attacks. Predators sure can be awful.

Have you stopped by our learning center yet? Lots of good articles on all the aspects of keeping poultry...https://www.backyardchickens.com/atype/1/Learning_Center

Good luck with your projects! If you have any specific questions, feel free to ask around the forums.

Welcome to our flock!
 
Welcome to the BYC flock! We are glad you are here!

Can I ask what type of school you work at (not the name, just what type of school)? Do you have any other job titles, or are you just the chicken manager?

I would love to talk the school I work at into at least hatching out some chicks as part of a science/biology lesson.
 
Sounds like the chicken area needs to be predator proofed. You can read up on that at the Predator section. BYC will bring you up to snuff in no time. And people on here 24/7 if you need help.
 
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x2 on the Learning Center and the predator-proofing. I hope you are finding the poultry interesting. Are you going to try incubating eggs and raising chicks?

Nice to have you here!
 
It's a Montessori school! I'm also the land manager and a science teacher. Our science classes are centered on direct application to the land around us. For example, last year there was a cell biology class focused on incubating eggs and hatching them, which was actually pretty successful. Let me know if you have any other questions!
 

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