Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Chickielady]

Yikes! That sounds very cold.

I hope you stay warm there and your house gets done quickly before bad weather hits. I'm not sure why I thought you were building a 2nd house.

Silly, it is all insulated & very cute now !
See if I can find a cute pic~~~~~~~~~~

 

[itsren]

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Oh, that's cute! Thank goodness my son doesn't want barrets or bows! Just getting my daughter's hair into pig tails or braids each day is almost more than I can cope with each morning. My kids hate having their hair brushed.

 

[pettec63]

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OHHHHH NOOO!! not me man!! That's him!!!! I do well in a structured setting, so yea, when I was in the Navy it was no problem, it this real life, I don't have a real job thing that kicks my rear!! He is the most organized!! And now that I just told my most prized secret!!!

He just makes me look good!! Gotta love it!! Thanks tho!! I mean I did learn a lot from the Navy!
Like, when is the enlisted club open, how many beers can I drink before I pass out, how to play quarters!! ya know!! the good stuff!! LOL!

Okay newbies don't freak out, especially after talking about being a 4 H leader!! LOL I've been in recovery for 8 years!! LOL!!

 

[pettec63]

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Wow man! it does!!! Where were you livin in a tent?? LOL!!

 

[pettec63]

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OH wait, ya mean, Juan, Pablo, Martinez, Gonzales, Rojas???? He's great!!! No more cojones, and he's starting to calm down a bit, and be a pretty good dog, sept he doesn't like to listen!! AT ALL!!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Quote: Looks more like an Einsteiner and a stick finder!! Look at that pile of reward for his efforts !!

 

[itsren]

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I won't have to deal with those subjects with other people's kids because we're just going to be a family club. Cub Scouts or Girl Scouts don't get into that at all - which is where I work with other people's kids. I just used a 4-H robotic program to help my Cub Scout den fulfill an Elective in the "Electricity" section of their Cub Scout book.

With my kids - they get to learn at home, but they might not be learning things as they really are. After all, they think an egg comes from a Chicken Rustler, gets put into a plastic electric box and out comes a chick! How's that for misleading my kids?

 

[pettec63]

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Well I don't know, cause, they need help in Yakima, that's 25 miles away?? So, I don't know how that works?? But, yea, it would be kinda cool!

 

[pettec63]

Quote: Sticking my head out again (Hi, the kid's still here, and I had way too much fun getting Baaachus into his house tonight) to say that I mentioned to Andrea that I'm hoping we (BYC, and chicken people in general) can find a way to get better birds into the hands of 4-H kids, because my tendency is to think that if the genetics aren't there, the possibility that kids are going to have a satisfying experience with their project animals isn't high. I wish there were more extension agents and really knowledgable senior 4-Hers to advise younger members, too: a lot of the chickens I saw at the fair this year were under-fed, dirty, and in general not what should be shown, and when I was in animal projects it was the Junior Leaders in my club and at the county level who gave me the most guidance on show prep.

Wow! that's good to know! but, that is also too bad that they didn't find some one who could help them, put it together! Darn it!

 

[TheReidHomestead]

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OHHHHH NOOO!! not me man!! That's him!!!! I do well in a structured setting, so yea, when I was in the Navy it was no problem, it this real life, I don't have a real job thing that kicks my rear!! He is the most organized!! And now that I just told my most prized secret!!!

He just makes me look good!! Gotta love it!! Thanks tho!! I mean I did learn a lot from the Navy!
Like, when is the enlisted club open, how many beers can I drink before I pass out, how to play quarters!! ya know!! the good stuff!! LOL!

Okay newbies don't freak out, especially after talking about being a 4 H leader!! LOL I've been in recovery for 8 years!! LOL!!


Julie, yes, you need the kids first before you plan what to teach! They will all be at different levels. Kids can start as young as 5 and go thru seniors in high school. Some might be total newbies, some might have had birds for years. Most do not know anything about the SOP and do start out with hatchery birds, until they learn some stuff! Typically, we will start the kiddo's out with simple things like handling their bird. How you carry it in the barn, place it in the cage, show the wing, show the keel bone, etc. Then they learn about the breed they are working with. And as a program, each year we decide in the planning meeting, which the kids participate in, which classes to focus on. About 5 yrs ago we decided as a group to focus on one class at a time county wide. So first we did the American Class, then the English, then the Asiatic, last year the Mediterranean and this year the Continental. So all the the kids in the Poultry Program in Snohomish County (which includes I think 6 different clubs) are working on the Continental class this year and working on learning that particular class well. The kids wwho have been in for the last 5 years, should be pretty knowledgeable about all 5 of those classes. And if their bird isn't in one of those classes, they should also be studying their birds class, it's breed and other varieties.

Their are 4-H guide books that you can get also to help guide you as a leader, but we've never used them. We just use the SOP and we have a Judging book put out by the Univ of Nebraska I think that we also use that covers stuff like judging eggs, fryer parts, diseases, etc.

HTH!!!