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CC, what did you cover in your class?

 

[chickadoodles]

I jut got back from teaching my intermediate chicken class at the Community College. The prerequisites are that one must already own chickens or have attended my first class.
One student said it far exceeded his expectations.
Quote: Congrats on your class.

And BBQ!

 

[Alaskan]

BBQ

 

[Arielle]

CC good of you to teach the next generation of chicken raisers!!

My son had to do a dreaded speech and I encouraged him to talk about some thing he knows well: chicken eggs!! His display was a colorful selection of eggs in a clear egg carton for all to kids to see. Teacher like it!!

His second speech was on breeds of chickens. Paper pictures are not nearly as interesting as the real bird but we thought no birds were up to dealing with the stress to risk their well being.

Keep teaching!!!!!!

 

[chickadoodles]

BBQ

x2 we just had pulled pork bbq!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

CC, what did you cover in your class?

The intermediate class has some of the same material as the first class but more in depth on disease and parasites, treatments for parasites and wounds including injections, needle and syringe selection.
More anatomy, egg development with emphasis on digestive and reproductive tracts. I usually bring some wind eggs and have cool pictures of an egg in an egg and one of a green egg inside a brown egg.
Breeding and a bit on genetics.
Incubation and broody hatching.
Culling/Processing.
Breed Characteristics, selection charts and supporting heritage breeds.
Changing ordinances.
Showing and SOP.
It's more of an open forum with a lot of Q&A. The first class still has the Q&A but more lecture with slide shows running all the time.
Both have a lot of show and tell. For the beginner class, I bring all types of feeders and watering devices including 2 types of nipples and 2 types of drinker cups. Winter watering options. A couple brooder options. Samples of #1, #2 and #3 grit, oyster shell, DE, plastic and excelsior nest pads. Lots of chicken books and poultry supply catalogs, including the must have for every chicken keeper - Gail Damerow's 'Chicken Health Handbook'.

The main show and tell today was my medical kit (not nearly as extensive as Kathy's but in the handout I listed all the things in her medical kit and gave her credit.
I had a hatch a couple days ago and I brought 3 chicks and the eggs that failed and we did an eggtopsy. I also brought 1 fertile and 1 infertile egg and showed them how to tell the difference.

CC good of you to teach the next generation of chicken raisers!!

My son had to do a dreaded speech and I encouraged him to talk about some thing he knows well: chicken eggs!! His display was a colorful selection of eggs in a clear egg carton for all to kids to see. Teacher like it!!

His second speech was on breeds of chickens. Paper pictures are not nearly as interesting as the real bird but we thought no birds were up to dealing with the stress to risk their well being.

Keep teaching!!!!!!

I do a lot of slide shows on overhead projector.
A picture is worth a thousand words.

ETA
I also encourage everyone to join BYC and our local chicken group with 750 members.

 

[casportpony]

Sounds like a great class!

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

@ChickenCanoe , do you also do and advanced class? Just curious.

-Kathy

 

[Puddin Fluff]

Totally worth the wait. I have actually started building a broody coop type thingy. Last summer my brahmas stayed broody. Im gonna use them this year. Good luck with yours

Thanks. How many eggs can a LF Houdan comfortably cover?

Puddin and Bamadude hope your broodies finish what they start. 

Thanks. She's a first timer but she is 3 so I hope she does well.

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My DH pointed out a possible broody but didnt complain about her being on the duck eggs!!  Otherwise he does complain about too many chickens.
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Enables hubby.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

@casportpony
That is in the planning, depending on attendance in the others. I do have a couple other classes. One is just winterization and one is more on predator proofing and trapping.
I've also taught a couple processing classes at my place and one in the city.
I do presentations at city councils too.

I remember once you started a thread of your medical kit. I copied it and put it in my handout.
The second class handout isn't as comprehensive as the beginner class booklet.

My classes for this semester are listed under Ecology on page 49 in the following PDF with a brief course description.

http://www.stlcc.edu/Document_Library/Cont_Ed/CE-Spring-2015-Schedule-web.pdf