What sex are these EEs?

[KieksterChicken]

Ty for the help on that boysteacher. I'm thinking a few Swedish Flowers will be the next 2 pullets we get. Did you use your chicken adventure as a home school project for your children? Thats exactly what I did too..lol! I have 5 children and have homeschooled all of them from kindergarten to grade 12. I have 3 left I am homeschooling right now.

 

[my2boysteacher]

Ty for the help on that boysteacher. I'm thinking a few Swedish Flowers will be the next 2 pullets we get. Did you use  your chicken adventure as a home school project for your children? Thats exactly what I did too..lol! I have 5 children and have homeschooled all of them from kindergarten to grade 12. I have 3 left I am homeschooling right now. 

Raising chickens is a great homeschool subject.

. We incubate eggs from breeds they want to raise. One son picked faverolles because they have an extra toe! He also did an 'egg-topsy' on one that didn't hatch. They are learning so much- we love it! My kids are 13, 11 and 6.

 

[KieksterChicken]

Awesome! My kids are 19, 18, 16, 10 and 8. I graduated my 19 yr old last year and will be doing the same for my 18 yr old in the fall. I'm thinking a chicken genetics project is going to be in the works in the next year or 2 for science..lol!. I want to try an Olive Egger project by crossing a light olive Olive Egger (which I already have) with a dark brown egged gene carrier to breed for a dark olive egg. Unfortunately I'm not allowed to have more than 6 chickens where I am so have to get rid of my Dark Cornish roo and find a roo from a breed that carries the dark brown egg gene. I'm thinking a Black Copper Marans but not sure I'll be able to afford a rooster from a good breeder without breaking the bank. lol! Might have to wait on that until we buy a few acres outside of city limits..

 

[Lady of McCamley]

Ty for the help on that boysteacher. I'm thinking a few Swedish Flowers will be the next 2 pullets we get. Did you use your chicken adventure as a home school project for your children? Thats exactly what I did too..lol! I have 5 children and have homeschooled all of them from kindergarten to grade 12. I have 3 left I am homeschooling right now.

Raising chickens is a great homeschool subject.

. We incubate eggs from breeds they want to raise. One son picked faverolles because they have an extra toe! He also did an 'egg-topsy' on one that didn't hatch. They are learning so much- we love it! My kids are 13, 11 and 6.

I too used chickens in my homeschool. My kids are all grown now and have graduated not only from homeschool but college too (well, almost...the last one is finishing up college next year). I spend my time re-using my teaching skills for afterschool ESL...and yep...those chickens are in the thick of it again.

Curious as to any supplements you might have used...I used my local 4H curriculum (The Incredible Egg)...where did you find yours?

Lady of McCamley

 

[KieksterChicken]

I approached it from an animal care perspective with life science. So we used an old science text (Scott Foresman Science (copyright 2000 Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc) Grade 2, Unit A Life Science. I lucked out finding 3 texts and a teachers Edition from the local School Board warehouse for free.) and went through the Life Science unit which included biology and animal care and needs. I was able to tailor the lessons to the ages of my 2 youngest children. My older daughter is 16 so she is doing a high school science text..chemistry which she hates..currently doing the Periodic Table...lol! My next biology project with chickens is probably to wait until one of my hens goes broody and put some fertile eggs under her to see what she hatches. And I'll take the kids through all the science behind genetics, eggs and hatching etc. Should be fun.

 

[my2boysteacher]

 I approached it from an animal care perspective with  life science. So we used an old science text (Scott Foresman Science (copyright 2000 Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc) Grade 2, Unit A Life Science. I lucked out finding 3 texts and a teachers Edition  from the local School Board warehouse for free.) and went through the Life Science unit which included biology and animal care and needs. I was able to tailor the  lessons to the ages of my 2 youngest children. My older daughter is 16 so she is doing a high school science text..chemistry which she hates..currently doing the Periodic Table...lol! My next biology project with chickens is probably to wait until one of my hens goes broody and put some fertile eggs under her to see what she hatches. And I'll take the kids through all the science behind genetics, eggs and hatching etc. Should be fun.

Sounds amazing! I wonder if there is a text geared for high schoolers about chicken genetics?

 

[KieksterChicken]

Oops..have to make a correction, it was a Grade 1 book. This year I am jumping to Grade 3&4 material for my 2 youngest..lol. A high school level chicken genetics text would be great! Wonder if you could read up on basic chicken genetics yourself and then go through a high school level science text that talks about biology and genetics. Then you could use the chicken genetics you learned to do a genetics project with the kids? You could write it out yourself, keep a journal of what you do every day and then write out your own little booklet on it. That would be interesting.

I'm going to go do a search in a sec to see if I can find any chicken genetics projects or texts high school level out there.

 

[Lady of McCamley]

I approached it from an animal care perspective with life science. So we used an old science text (Scott Foresman Science (copyright 2000 Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc) Grade 2, Unit A Life Science. I lucked out finding 3 texts and a teachers Edition from the local School Board warehouse for free.) and went through the Life Science unit which included biology and animal care and needs. I was able to tailor the lessons to the ages of my 2 youngest children. My older daughter is 16 so she is doing a high school science text..chemistry which she hates..currently doing the Periodic Table...lol! My next biology project with chickens is probably to wait until one of my hens goes broody and put some fertile eggs under her to see what she hatches. And I'll take the kids through all the science behind genetics, eggs and hatching etc. Should be fun.

I've done that several times over for my own children and then students and have used this unit which is adaptable for multiple ages of kids (although definitely not in depth enough for high school, but I've had high schoolers enjoy it too):

http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/4h/4-H1500theincredibleegg.pdf
EDITED to add, the above Incredible Egg is uploaded by the Oregon State University for free distribution to all

and then used these videos:

(Excellent animation video of whole process)

You might also enjoy the facts in this research .pdf which is on Cranes but also remarks about Chickens, especially useful is the discussion of malpositions and effects of nest position.
https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/resshow/gee/cranbook/chap04.pdf

Have fun with your studies with a broody...it is awesome.
Lady of McCamley

 

[KieksterChicken]

Awesome! Ty Lady of McCamley. I am bookmarking this page. I always welcome homeschooling help/curriculum. Too bad we don't live close to each other. I have 4 bookshelves full of home school materials I could share with you for your ESL classes.

 

[my2boysteacher]

Yes, thanks for sharing! I can't wait to go through all the links.