Girl Scout Chicken

This week I want to report on a fun experience that Bossy (see previous blog post Meet the Chickens) and I had at a recent Girl Scout day camp.  We were invited by Bailey Norwood to come out and give the girls a hands-on learning experience with a live chicken.  

We arrived just in time for the girls' afternoon Popsicle break.  Bossy was given luxury accommodations with food and water.

She was quite concerned when we first arrived, but settled down after a while and strutted around for all to see.

We had an attentive bunch of girls.  They asked a lot of questions and volunteered a lot of information about chickens they had seen.  Several of them had chickens at home or had grandparents who had chickens and they were eager to share everything they knew.  :-)

I brought along a few "props", such as some of the chicken feed we use, some grit chickens need to help them grind their food and some nesting material that we put in the nest boxes.  I passed these around and let them feel of the different items.  This seemed to keep their attention.

All in all, the visit appeared to be a success.  It would be interesting to hear what sort of stories the girls took home to their parents about the "chicken lady" and her chicken!