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At my son's school last year, the parents contributed $25 each and the teacher went shopping for all the kid's supplies in bulk. They shared everything. THis year in JH, we had to buy everything and they want the "expensive" supplies. Not the 10c note books, they required the kids to buy the 150 page note books with the pockets. $3.75. What ever for? $3.75 vs 10c...It is so heavy too.
Pretty soon the busses will not be free...but I'm ok with paying for that service. Heck, lunch and sports aint free either.
I hear you - they specify the brands of pencils and scissors and stuff. At the elementary school, the students turn in everything but the scissors and ruler in to the teacher who re-ditributes. Most teachers have a box of sharpened pencils and another for the kids to put the dull ones in and then a parent takes them to the workroom for sharpening. I can tell you that the bulk of the pencils that parents buy, the really cheap mega packs, the lead is so badly centered that I will often have to sharpen the pencil to half its size before I get a tip, and about 20% will get ground all the way down before the tip shows. The school requests Ticonderoga's, but even they are not as good as they used to be. I'm glad at the Middle School, the students get to keep their own supply. I order Musgrave and a couple other brands of pencils made here in the USA, they sharpen nicely. They cost more to buy but last so much longer it is worth the extra expense. (Musgrave is mostly known for their pencils with information on them like times tables, the preamble to the constitution, chemical symbols, etc. I bought the ones with the states and capitals on them for my kids, and they passively learned them! Olivia got 80% on her pre-test before they learned them, and she did not cheat by using the pencil with the answers.) There are a couple of other good brands too - surprisingly one of the Roseart pencils (not all - need the green barrel). I found these while sharpening pencils for second graders. Most Roseart stuff stuff is made in China, but they bought out a small pencil manufacturer in New Jersey, and the good pencils are produced there and sold at Target stores.
What cracks me up with both schools is they have this huge list of required items (pencils, pens, erasers, glue sticks, scissors, highlighters in 4 colors, dry-erase markers in 3 colors, 2 boxes of 24 count colored pencils ....) and one SMALL pencil box so that they can fit the stuff in their desks! For Alex's small items alone, I filled 4 pencil cases and a 1 gallon zip-lock bag!
My son had a pencil caddy on his desk last 2 years and this year, cause he is in JH, he has a locker so he can haul around just the things he needs. I got him a small magnetic pencil cup for his locker and a shelf.
Hope that works.
I also ended up buying a few nice things at the UW bookstore...I found the us constitution pencil as well, and a very nice student day runner that has all the UW info in it. Even when they have games, and what you need to graduate.
We try.
But I really like their note books. Nest year I am shopping there. Everything he needs plus some, and it is not made in CHINA. At least I had the options there.
At my son's school last year, the parents contributed $25 each and the teacher went shopping for all the kid's supplies in bulk. They shared everything. THis year in JH, we had to buy everything and they want the "expensive" supplies. Not the 10c note books, they required the kids to buy the 150 page note books with the pockets. $3.75. What ever for? $3.75 vs 10c...It is so heavy too.
Pretty soon the busses will not be free...but I'm ok with paying for that service. Heck, lunch and sports aint free either.
I hear you - they specify the brands of pencils and scissors and stuff. At the elementary school, the students turn in everything but the scissors and ruler in to the teacher who re-ditributes. Most teachers have a box of sharpened pencils and another for the kids to put the dull ones in and then a parent takes them to the workroom for sharpening. I can tell you that the bulk of the pencils that parents buy, the really cheap mega packs, the lead is so badly centered that I will often have to sharpen the pencil to half its size before I get a tip, and about 20% will get ground all the way down before the tip shows. The school requests Ticonderoga's, but even they are not as good as they used to be. I'm glad at the Middle School, the students get to keep their own supply. I order Musgrave and a couple other brands of pencils made here in the USA, they sharpen nicely. They cost more to buy but last so much longer it is worth the extra expense. (Musgrave is mostly known for their pencils with information on them like times tables, the preamble to the constitution, chemical symbols, etc. I bought the ones with the states and capitals on them for my kids, and they passively learned them! Olivia got 80% on her pre-test before they learned them, and she did not cheat by using the pencil with the answers.) There are a couple of other good brands too - surprisingly one of the Roseart pencils (not all - need the green barrel). I found these while sharpening pencils for second graders. Most Roseart stuff stuff is made in China, but they bought out a small pencil manufacturer in New Jersey, and the good pencils are produced there and sold at Target stores.
What cracks me up with both schools is they have this huge list of required items (pencils, pens, erasers, glue sticks, scissors, highlighters in 4 colors, dry-erase markers in 3 colors, 2 boxes of 24 count colored pencils ....) and one SMALL pencil box so that they can fit the stuff in their desks! For Alex's small items alone, I filled 4 pencil cases and a 1 gallon zip-lock bag!
My son had a pencil caddy on his desk last 2 years and this year, cause he is in JH, he has a locker so he can haul around just the things he needs. I got him a small magnetic pencil cup for his locker and a shelf.
I also ended up buying a few nice things at the UW bookstore...I found the us constitution pencil as well, and a very nice student day runner that has all the UW info in it. Even when they have games, and what you need to graduate.
But I really like their note books. Nest year I am shopping there. Everything he needs plus some, and it is not made in CHINA. At least I had the options there.
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Catch the bug!!
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Sorry hope I didn't hurt any feelings. I normally don't use silly either but was trying to be PC and avoid the noid
know what I mean Vern?
Exactly. You did not hurt my feelings.
Can't hurt my feelings that easily.
Duck people are tuff.
Exactly. You did not hurt my feelings.
Can't hurt my feelings that easily.
OK since I have the page all to myself, I shall make the most of it.
Good deals on netting: DAISO has bird netting that stretches 15 feet X 20 feet for $1.50 adn there are DAISO stores all over King County.
But if you go....be prepared to NOT LOOK at anything else or you will come out $100 in the hole easily.
Question : I am tryng the deep litter method to keep my birds warm this winter and BOY DOES IT STINK in there coop. Am I doing something wrong?? Help.
Good deals on netting: DAISO has bird netting that stretches 15 feet X 20 feet for $1.50 adn there are DAISO stores all over King County.
But if you go....be prepared to NOT LOOK at anything else or you will come out $100 in the hole easily.
Question : I am tryng the deep litter method to keep my birds warm this winter and BOY DOES IT STINK in there coop. Am I doing something wrong?? Help.
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oh so cute! I love the little chipmunk stripes
How many total now?
4 out of the 5 in the incubator have hatched so far. Nothing under the broody yet as far as I can tell. Of course, when I try to move her to see anything she gets PO'd and pecks me HARD.
So still waiting on one more in the house and 3 under the broody.
What I'm wondering now is if I have to wait for those under the broody to hatch before I can try to put these chicks under the broody tonight? I wanted to try and sneak them under her when it gets dark. This is the part that worries me but I was really hoping that the hen would be the one raising them.
oh so cute! I love the little chipmunk stripes
4 out of the 5 in the incubator have hatched so far. Nothing under the broody yet as far as I can tell. Of course, when I try to move her to see anything she gets PO'd and pecks me HARD.
So still waiting on one more in the house and 3 under the broody.
What I'm wondering now is if I have to wait for those under the broody to hatch before I can try to put these chicks under the broody tonight? I wanted to try and sneak them under her when it gets dark. This is the part that worries me but I was really hoping that the hen would be the one raising them.
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Welcome to this thread, these folks are chatty! But very nice and helpful to a newbie like me. We have almost got our coop done, and hope to get some chickens in it this weekend! I am at Lake Tapps. That's between Auburn and Puyallup, near Bonney Lake, if you didn't know, lol.
Welcome to this thread, these folks are chatty! But very nice and helpful to a newbie like me. We have almost got our coop done, and hope to get some chickens in it this weekend! I am at Lake Tapps. That's between Auburn and Puyallup, near Bonney Lake, if you didn't know, lol.
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One time I had two broodies at once, everything was fine untill just before hatch, one of the ladies started raising a ruckus I went out to see, she would raise up look at the eggs, set down again. She did this over and over. Then suddenly she she jumped straight up and took off like a rocket,
I did not find her untill next day. I think that the chicks peeping inside the shell and starting to move around scared her, and she just took off. I took as many of her eggs and put them under the other broodie untill she look like she was hatching a mountain, she never blinked an eye. She hatched them all. The rest I put in the incubator and those hatched too. I guess you need to be prepared no matter what stage the eggs are. Maybe your broodie solved her anxiety by removing the peeping and piping from the nest, instead of herself?
That's an interesting theory, especially considering the eggs under the broody have yet to hatch. Don't know if a temp difference outside compared to steamy hot incubator would make any difference. The 4 that have hatched are of the 5 eggs that she had kicked out of the nest so it's possible that the peeping and movement inside the eggs bothered her so she got rid of them? Maybe those under her are not viable so that's why she's continuing to set?
A broody hen is all new and mysterious to me so maybe we'll have some of our answers in the next 24 to 48 hours. In the meantime I'm going to have to figure out if I need to get the brooder out of the garage again and raise these chicks myself or sneak them under the broody and see how she does as a mama.
One time I had two broodies at once, everything was fine untill just before hatch, one of the ladies started raising a ruckus I went out to see, she would raise up look at the eggs, set down again. She did this over and over. Then suddenly she she jumped straight up and took off like a rocket,
That's an interesting theory, especially considering the eggs under the broody have yet to hatch. Don't know if a temp difference outside compared to steamy hot incubator would make any difference. The 4 that have hatched are of the 5 eggs that she had kicked out of the nest so it's possible that the peeping and movement inside the eggs bothered her so she got rid of them? Maybe those under her are not viable so that's why she's continuing to set?
A broody hen is all new and mysterious to me so maybe we'll have some of our answers in the next 24 to 48 hours. In the meantime I'm going to have to figure out if I need to get the brooder out of the garage again and raise these chicks myself or sneak them under the broody and see how she does as a mama.
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oh so cute! I love the little chipmunk stripes
How many total now?
4 out of the 5 in the incubator have hatched so far. Nothing under the broody yet as far as I can tell. Of course, when I try to move her to see anything she gets PO'd and pecks me HARD.
So still waiting on one more in the house and 3 under the broody.
What I'm wondering now is if I have to wait for those under the broody to hatch before I can try to put these chicks under the broody tonight? I wanted to try and sneak them under her when it gets dark. This is the part that worries me but I was really hoping that the hen would be the one raising them.
The only things I see you may be concerned about is after a couple days of having chicks she will abandon any other eggs left for the health of the chicks. So if you see her leaving eggs you may want to tuck them in the bator. I'd also watch to see how she takes to the chicks; if she rejects them it will be right away when she wakes up and you'll want to know. good luck
oh so cute! I love the little chipmunk stripes
4 out of the 5 in the incubator have hatched so far. Nothing under the broody yet as far as I can tell. Of course, when I try to move her to see anything she gets PO'd and pecks me HARD.
So still waiting on one more in the house and 3 under the broody.
What I'm wondering now is if I have to wait for those under the broody to hatch before I can try to put these chicks under the broody tonight? I wanted to try and sneak them under her when it gets dark. This is the part that worries me but I was really hoping that the hen would be the one raising them.
The only things I see you may be concerned about is after a couple days of having chicks she will abandon any other eggs left for the health of the chicks. So if you see her leaving eggs you may want to tuck them in the bator. I'd also watch to see how she takes to the chicks; if she rejects them it will be right away when she wakes up and you'll want to know. good luck
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4 out of the 5 in the incubator have hatched so far. Nothing under the broody yet as far as I can tell. Of course, when I try to move her to see anything she gets PO'd and pecks me HARD.
So still waiting on one more in the house and 3 under the broody.
What I'm wondering now is if I have to wait for those under the broody to hatch before I can try to put these chicks under the broody tonight? I wanted to try and sneak them under her when it gets dark. This is the part that worries me but I was really hoping that the hen would be the one raising them.
The only things I see you may be concerned about is after a couple days of having chicks she will abandon any other eggs left for the health of the chicks. So if you see her leaving eggs you may want to tuck them in the bator. I'd also watch to see how she takes to the chicks; if she rejects them it will be right away when she wakes up and you'll want to know. good luck
Okay, that gives me some direction. I'll keep watching her and go from there. And yes, I do have some concern that she might reject the chicks so I'll have the brooder ready to go just in case. Thanks for the advice!
4 out of the 5 in the incubator have hatched so far. Nothing under the broody yet as far as I can tell. Of course, when I try to move her to see anything she gets PO'd and pecks me HARD.
So still waiting on one more in the house and 3 under the broody.
What I'm wondering now is if I have to wait for those under the broody to hatch before I can try to put these chicks under the broody tonight? I wanted to try and sneak them under her when it gets dark. This is the part that worries me but I was really hoping that the hen would be the one raising them.
The only things I see you may be concerned about is after a couple days of having chicks she will abandon any other eggs left for the health of the chicks. So if you see her leaving eggs you may want to tuck them in the bator. I'd also watch to see how she takes to the chicks; if she rejects them it will be right away when she wakes up and you'll want to know. good luck
Okay, that gives me some direction. I'll keep watching her and go from there. And yes, I do have some concern that she might reject the chicks so I'll have the brooder ready to go just in case. Thanks for the advice!
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