hello all,

I got a new kitten  it is black and white and we call it Sylvester.

  I got it a while ago and I loved it but it has turned evil it is biting every one it scratches.  it is a vary evil kitten but it killed a mouse so it must be usefull,  I hope.  it lives in the chicken barn( my mom is alergic to cats ) it chases a chicken or two every onece in a while but the dog loves the cat and the cat hates the dog, big problem. My dog has to stay on a chain and run around in a little space. He is not to be trusted

Ariel

Hello,

Sorry I haven’t blogged in a while I've been busy (very) but I've done a study on Julie of the wolves! it was fun and vary good my moms site has a good blog on it here’s the link

http://homeschoolblogger.com/tlpgina , just look under Julie of the Wolves/Iditarod study.

I’m planning on using some of the things I did in our Julie of the Wolves study for my Science Fair project.  It will include sled dogs, penguins, lemmings, possibly polar bears, caribou and more.  Besides animals we studied the artic people called Eskimos or Inuit and we did art on the Northern Lights.

I'm just happy I can have time to do this and soooon I hope I get more time to do more stuff.

Ariel

  First we made are pumpkins(which I carved the girls pumpkin!)then we went to Rome fest (look at my moms blog to see Rome fest ) then from Rome fest I got my costumes  and I think I'm ready (I've already  got the fake pumpkins with a handle!)

1 day later 

Now it's Halloween but instead of going to trick-or-treat  were going to trunk-or-treat,  it's going to be so fun I can' wait but of course you have school which isn't too bad but I'm going I muuuust! (so I get a lot of candy!!!)

3 weeks later

I'm finally getting this posted (its almost thanksgiving!)

Thanks inkblotter for giving me these awards!

Blogger Reflection Award!

I am giving this award to:

jesusfreakjess- because she is a christian

tlpgina- she is my great mom!

outdoorgirl- she loves animals just like me!

jjs blog- she has chickens just like me!

Rules of participating:
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Also,

and The Rockin' Girl Blogger Award! from inkblotter

This is what I’m doing for school this year.

Language arts- Total Language Plus(whipping  boy)

Math- Spectrum

History- Mystery of History (book 2 and a bit of 1)

Science - Christian Kids explore Earth and Space

It’s all school.

I don’t really like school but I have to do it… sadly.  How do people  actually like this?!?!?!  Look at the bright side I got an a+ on my first math test! I’m so happy! My mom sells school books.  My sister gets my moms home made school book.                                          

  School  

School

School  School  it’s all school!

My Buttercup chicken started her life with us as she came to us in a box in the mail from the hatchery.  She looked like a little bandit.  Buttercups have a black stripe by their eyes making them look like robbers.  The rest of them is fluffy yellow with a little black.  She was so cute!

As she started to grow she had a Buttercup rooster partner but he mysteriously died one day.  He was a pretty rooster.  I think he would have done well at fair had he lived to go.

We took her to fair as a pullet (this means she’s less than 1 year old.)  By this time she had matured and looked like a grown-up Buttercup.  This picture of her is at that fair.  She got an honorable mention.  An honorable mention means there was tough competition and she might have done better if there were not as many good birds that year.  I hung a sign on her cage saying her name was “cute eyes”.  I also sometimes called her “butter-butt” sometimes.

After we got her home from fair she started flying out of the pen.  She was the only one who did this but she never went far.  She liked to stay by the other chickens.

Then, this last June we had a terrible dog attack.  We lost 17 or 18 chickens and Buttercup was injured.  First, she was missing but she came back late that night.  She only had one tail feather left (out of 10) and had bite marks on her skin.  She probably had an internal injury because she was spitting blood.  We didn’t know if she’d make it but she did! 

All her feathers grew back and we nursed her back to health.  She seemed very freaked out most of the time.  It really changed her personality.  She never jumped out again.  We had to keep her separate from the other chickens for awhile.  Even after she was better she was still scared of them.  It’s just been about the last month that she was finally able to be with the other ones.

Yesterday, when I went to open my chickens I saw her wings hanging down and I got a little suspicious.  In the afternoon, we found her sick with head hanging down.  We tried to get her to drink but she would rather not.  We put her down for a few minutes and came back and she had died.

I felt terrible.  My mom said probably their was something internal wrong that we couldn’t see from the dog attack.  I will miss her so much.

I had a lot of fun with her.  I’m sad she left.  I think she had a good life (except for the dog attack) with us.

Ariel

This year I  was going to fair of course I show chickens. My brother got 6th for showing the bird and 2nd for showmanship.  My sister got 5th for showmanship and my other brother got 3rd for showing his chicken.  I got 1^st place and champion for my bird, now I like to say her name is champion or number 1!

Showmanship is where you tell the judge about the parts of your chicken.  She asks you a lot of questions and they see who knows the most. 

When you show your bird the judge is looking for how nice your bird looks and if it's molting or not.  Molting is when they lose their feathers to get new ones.  They usually do this once or twice a year.

 I also got 3 corn dogs! They were really good but… now I cannot have any now that fair is done.  We did not go on one ride (because they were not free.)

We also went to the demo derby at fair.  That is where cars they get from the junk yard go crashing into each other.  This is the first time I've been to one.  They were throwing things into the stands between rounds and someone around me caught a toy and gave it to me.  It was a hairy eyeball creature that lights up.  It's red and blue when it lights up.  They also did a mini derby with smaller cars.  The derby was very, very, very loud.  One car set on fire but the firefighters put it out.

My mom worked in a stand at the commercial building.  I got to go and collect all the free things like water, candies and balloon animals while she was working there.

I hope you get to go to a fair.  If you did tell me about what you did at fair.

Ariel

This year we went to Rhode Island it was fun very fun. We went to our grandpas house and we were right by the ocean. We went there almost every day we were there. We had lobster and chicken (you may think we don’t eat chicken but we do)  I didn't like lobster though   so... you can see we had a fun vacation!!!

We also got to see our cousins.  My cousin gave me her old huge pokemon card collection.  It's really cool! 

Today I am going to talk about eggs. You know about eggs, don’t you? Chickens can lay brown, white, but you may not know… they can lay green eggs! ! It’s so much fun to find green eggs in the nest box! Although…it is still fun to find an egg no matter what color it is.                                                                        

 Chickens can lay up to an egg every day!  A good layer could lay 360 per year!

Chickens are very gentle and kind. But sometimes they can be mean to each other.  I am getting started with the pecking  order, the pecking order is who picks on others  more.  For an example a Buttercup will peck more then others like Polish chickens.

How bad can the pecking get?  For example one time one of our chickens pecked all the tail feathers off our two black Polish is just a day or two.  It will take 4-6 months for them to grow back.

There are many kinds of chickens probably 100 different kinds of chickens at least!

 Here are some web sites that may be interesting!!!

http://feathersite.com/Poultry/BRKPoultryPage.html#Chickens this site shows all kinds of breeds of chickens.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/birds/info/chicken.shtml this site has lots of learning about chickens and eggs.

http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/  this is a site to order chickens if you get really excited and want some yourself!

This summer I went to camp (rookie camp at bair lake.) I did many activates such as, tubing , crafts, bmx bike course, swimming and more I also went to the snack shop and bairs cove! If you ask me… I think its better then Disney!!! I know people would think in crazy… but I am not. p.s. I got to pet a gecko and a guinea pig

This blog is about me!

To start lets talk about chickens. Of course I love chickens they are so fluffy nice and…and enjoyable!!! I have two chickens one is a buttercup the other is a silkey. I care for 11 chickens in the front pen in our chicken coop. Next, I love animals they are so cool to research, fun  to learn about everyone I think loves animals at lest 75% of the world. My mom also does the bloging thing its sort of fun if you ask me!        

If you like to read check out my moms blog at http://homeschoolblogger.com/tlpgina