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Okay, so once the students have collected
these chickens, they then bring them down to the
outdoor classroom area.
Here we have now a group of students who are going to
safely weigh these chickens and keeping in mind
we need to handle them correctly.
And so one student will pass it onto the scales,
the student will record the weight.
They will then pass that weight back to the students
at the blackboard.
The students there will then record the results.
And so we as I mentioned before we’re only going to weigh
a minimal number, in this case it’s three chickens to reduce
the amount of stress.
Once those chickens have then been weighed we’ll then carefully
put them back into the box.
We have a group of students who brought the chickens down
to the outdoor classroom area, they will then carefully take
those chickens back in their container back to their location
in the housing area.
So, it’s really important that this part of the work is done
quite quickly and efficiently because if we end up with
a cool day, chickens’ temperature can be reduced dramatically
and again once that can put a fair bit of stress on
these chickens and therefore their overall production
and weight and development can also be reduced.
Students will then work out an average weight
for those chickens.
Because we’ve only used three, the students will then work out
that average, they will then multiply that by the total number
of chickens that we have and as mentioned before we don’t need
to have a great number of these chickens.
So, we have fourteen in this particular project so they simply
multiply their average by the fourteen and that gives us
a gross weight of the total fourteen chickens.
The record management of this program is important
to students because they can track the development of
these chickens over that eight week period.