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[mrballance]

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[Puddin Fluff]

CC. Your class sounds great.

My 16 year old son had to give a talk in speech class and he did it in chicken basics. He only had to fill 3 minutes so he didn't get much in.

 

[perchie.girl]

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and you can chage that warning title... to something you like better

deb

 

[casportpony]

@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

How nice is that? You would think that the community college here would offer something like that.

-Kathy

 

[ChickenCanoe]

CC. Your class sounds great.

My 16 year old son had to give a talk in speech class and he did it in chicken basics. He only had to fill 3 minutes so he didn't get much in.

I had to do a 15 minute class at the MO Botanical Garden Earth Day thingy. It was tough to do 15. I can imagine how hard 3 would be.

How nice is that? You would think that the community college here would offer something like that.

-Kathy

They're always searching for new topics. One of the college continuing ed coordinators joined our local chicken group to find someone to do a class. Since I had been doing adult education most of my life and had a lot of experience in both small flocks and commercial poultry I seemed like the perfect fit and I love doing it.

I also did a college for kids program a couple summers ago. It is for gifted kids. They have to be in some kind of advanced academic program but it is for those that have completed grades 1-8. 1-4 is in the morning session and 5-8 is in the afternoon and covers a week.
I did basically the same thing for both groups but day 1 was on backyard poultry. The coop fairy brought her turkey and a couple of her tame chickens to class. (none of mine would have accommodated the kids) For the take home project, they had a world map and had to find countries where different breeds originated.
Day 2 was on bees and native pollinators. I took a complete bee hive (minus the bees) to class and even brought a queen cage and package cage. The kids all made a native pollinator house to take home.
Day 3 was on gardening for wild birds and butterflies. They made a feeder from large pine cones, peanut butter and bird seed.
Day 4 was gardening in general and for the take home they planted a flat of their choice of vegetables, herbs or flowers.
Day 5 was parent day where they could participate and the topic was fungi- the whole fungi world. I brought small logs and plug spawn of their choice - oyster or shitake mushrooms. The parents helped drilled the holes and I had bees wax to seal the plugs.

I liked the class but it was so much work, I never volunteered to do it again.

 

[Alaskan]

that does sound like a great deal of work, AND also very fun and educational... I a sure that they all loved it!

As a high school student I took "summer school at college for high school students" or something or other... It was all summer, and you picked a bunch of classes, a great deal like if you were in college...

My mom said that I had to take a full course load, and do that all summer, or get a job, but she was not having me in the house.

I actually greatly enjoyed it... lots of fun. The best one was the one that I picked that was only dissections..... dissecting stuff all summer.. I still remember that, it was SUPER cool.

I also took a class on computer programing.. but that was so far back in the stone age, that it wasn't at all helpful, ever.

 

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[bamadude]

@Puddin Fluff: I have never hatched with a broody. Sorry idk.
I just watched a video of a silkie with her turkey poult hatchlings following her around. I wish I could post the link