Hillsboro FFA raises poultry for class project
Lead Summary
By
Riley Collins-
The Hillsboro FFA Chapter purchased 100 chickens for the business class and the livestock class to use for a class project.
For the business classes, they had split the chickens into two groups, one for each class. Before the chickens arrived at the school, the students had to make layouts for the business plan of how the environment was going to be set up for the chickens and how much it would cost to raise them to be processed.
The students brought in some items they had to build houses for the chickens, when the chickens arrived they were split between the two business classes. From the time they got dropped off until it is time for them to be processed, the students will take care of the chickens and keep records of feed and expenses throughout the project.
Every day when the students take care of the chickens, they are to clean and refill waters, clean and refill the feeders, scrape out dirty shavings and put new in, and make sure all animals remain healthy each day.
The chickens will be processed April 20. The students have not proposed what the plan is after they are processed, but they will have an answer soon.
Along with having 100 chickens bought by the FFA, there have been chicken and duck eggs in the incubator in the classroom. On March 13 when the first bell rang, we heard chirping in the classroom. When we opened the incubator, there was a baby duck.
We took the little duckling out of the incubator and put it in a safe pen with a heat lamp and started it on feed and water. Along with the baby duck, we have had some chickens hatching that will be raised with the duck until they are grown enough to be separated into different groups.
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For the business classes, they had split the chickens into two groups, one for each class. Before the chickens arrived at the school, the students had to make layouts for the business plan of how the environment was going to be set up for the chickens and how much it would cost to raise them to be processed.
The students brought in some items they had to build houses for the chickens, when the chickens arrived they were split between the two business classes. From the time they got dropped off until it is time for them to be processed, the students will take care of the chickens and keep records of feed and expenses throughout the project.
Every day when the students take care of the chickens, they are to clean and refill waters, clean and refill the feeders, scrape out dirty shavings and put new in, and make sure all animals remain healthy each day.
The chickens will be processed April 20. The students have not proposed what the plan is after they are processed, but they will have an answer soon.
Along with having 100 chickens bought by the FFA, there have been chicken and duck eggs in the incubator in the classroom. On March 13 when the first bell rang, we heard chirping in the classroom. When we opened the incubator, there was a baby duck.
We took the little duckling out of the incubator and put it in a safe pen with a heat lamp and started it on feed and water. Along with the baby duck, we have had some chickens hatching that will be raised with the duck until they are grown enough to be separated into different groups.
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