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WATERING:

Help our school gardens grow! The plants need water and we need you!

Please  sign up below  for a day of watering. Choose your preferred day. If it's a rainy day, you’ll get the day off!

 

While you are here, take a moment to visit, play, feed and water our chicks.

 

The gardens and chicken coop are located on the Webster Street side of the school. Please enter through the office. Scholars must be accompanied by an adult volunteer. Teachers will not be on site to supervise children.

Chickens don't do well in the heat?

They're great at regulating their temperatures in the coldest of cold weathers. Of course - they have a feather duvet to help!

But that doesn't work well when the temperatures soar in the summer. It's at that time that your flock relies on you to help them keep their body temperature at an acceptable level.

There are various ways of doing this, and one of the simplest and most effective is to feed them frozen treats.

 It's possible to freeze more or less anything chickens love to eat.

But freezing them separately can be a pain, and they do get bored if they're fed the same food time after time.

This very simple recipe for a frozen chicken treat is the ultimate answer.

It uses up fruit and vegetables which you may not want to use for human salads for one reason or another -

It takes just a few minutes to prepare, it's easy to freeze and, as well as keeping your flock cool and hydrated, it gives them some fun.What do you need?

Very little.

Any kind of large-ish tin. Don't use small containers like muffin pans - the treats will melt too quickly.

I am using a Bundt pan  for making frozen treats. 

The idea is to keep your flock hydrated, as well as cool, so choose mostly ingredients which have a high water content.