2W's Chicken Week

2W looked after the chickens this week. Mrs Coles and Mrs Pattison helped us. We fed some corn to the chickens; they were happy to peck it out of our hands. We ensured they had fresh water everyday.
We also checked in the chicken coop to see if there were any eggs. Most days we collected 6 eggs when we went in the morning. We sold these at the office everyday.
Some of us were brave enough to pick up the chickens carefully. We were delighted to finally meet our Year 2 chicken, Billie-Daisy. We knew how to identify her because she has a green band around her leg.
Wicor chose to have hens and not roosters so we would get eggs everyday. Roosters would also have been too loud for our neighbours!

Eggs for the Office

Daily half dozen

Billie-Daisy turned out to be a bit of a handful!

4M look after the hens

We were very excited to have our turn in looking after the hens for the week before the spring half term holiday.  We were desperate to see how our own hen for Year 4, Egg Sheeran, had settled in with her companions and to see how many eggs we would find each day in their nesting boxes!  A group of us went out each day, making sure that we listened carefully to our instructions on the correct way to hold the chickens, how much feed and water they need and how to clean the path in their home.

collecting the eggs

Will the real Egg Sheeran stand up?

We also learned that in order to make sure that we did not carry germs into our chicken’s habitat; we needed to use a special foot bath to wash the bottom of our shoes.  The foot bath was really easy to use and we were very careful to make sure that each one of us used it before entering the chicken run.  As the foot bath contains a special disinfectant, we made sure that after we had used it, the lid was carefully replaced so that other wildlife and the local cats could not drink it.  If that happened, these animals could become very ill indeed, so we learned how important it is to care for ALL of our animals and our feline visitors.

Class 4M