"Chicken Chore Crew" Farm Camp

New at the Learning Farm –

Our Chicken Chore Crew!

by Sharon Gaughan, PCLF Education Program Director

Our spring “Chicken Chore Crew” Farm Camp had begun!  We have ten chicken enthusiasts – ages 8-12 – that have signed up to be a part of our first-ever Chicken Chore Crew.

 

 

 

We’ve met on two Monday afternoon’s so far, and we have two more Monday’s to go for this spring session.  Fortunately, this unusually cold and wet spring weather has been fairly nice to us – and we’ve been able to do most of the outdoor chores that we were hoping to do.

Here are some of the chicken chores that we’ve accomplished so far (some of these chores we did on both days, some only on one day so far):

·         Harvested mealworms and fed them to the chickens.

·         Fed greens and “chicken candy” (scratch grain) to the chickens.

·         Collected leftover chicken feed from feeders; made “chicken gruel” and fed it to the chickens.

·         Raked straw off the Children’s Garden beds; brought the straw to the chicken yard and spread it around.

·         Cleaned the ledges and roosts in the winter chicken coop by scraping chicken poop into our infamous “poop bucket.”

·         Learned how to pick up a chicken, then picked up and held lots of chickens!

 

 

 

 

 

If you think that you might like to spend some time hanging out with our chickens, our chicken farmers, and some other kids that like chickens – then you’re in luck!  We have both summer and fall Chicken Chore Crews on our camp schedule!

Summer Session Dates:  July 8, 15, 22, 29
Time for Summer Session:  10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Fall Session Dates:  Sept. 9, 16, 23, 30
Time for Fall Session:  4:00-5:30 p.m.

Cost:  $25/child/session

For more information and to register, visit the Learning Farm website!