2. In the main part of the lesson the students watched a video with Mr.Bean when he makes a sandwich. 2.1 While watching the video they were given a handout and were expected to work in pairs. There were two activities on the handout - one true/false exercise and one with numbering the sentences in the correct order according to the video.
2.2 During the video I asked the students several questions to point out the answers on the handout. 2.3 When the video stopped I asked the students to take some time and complete the second exercise with their partner and once they finished we checked the answers together. 3. To make sure the students know how to write the steps to making a sandwich I used a nice, simple activity I found on the Internet. The students worked in pairs and their task was to arrange the sentences on the piece of paper in the correct order.
The sentences described the steps we need to follow to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. We checked the sentences together and to make sure everyone got everything right we put the sentences on the board in the correct order. In the end the students were given a small handout to write the steps and the recipe for their favourite sandwich.
Average individual weight: 5 lbs. Average group weight: 125 lbs. Week 10 was about when their appetites really began to pick up. Fodder consumption increased to an easy 10 lbs. I was no longer giving it as a "free feed" because we were now heading into the beginning of December, and my fodder was getting harder and harder to grow. Milk and cheese consumption stayed the same though. The cheese really seemed to make an impact on their weight gain; I noticed that without the dairy, they didn't do as well.
Next time I do this, I would like to try experimenting with feeding more cheese; maybe 6-8 lbs. 25 birds. Just to see if it increases growth rate noticeably or not. Average individual weight: 5.5 lbs. Average group weight: 137.5 lbs. Average individual weight: 6 lbs.! Average group weight: 150 lbs. By 12 weeks, the birds were big enough to be butchered.
They were the same weight that my Cornish X's hit at 8-9 weeks. 700 to raise one hundred Cornish X's in the traditional feeding manner (grain. 84. I don't know about you, but I'll take that second price over the first one. I went through a bag and a half of whole wheat for sprouting, and the milk was extra that otherwise would have been dumped because I had no room for it in the fridge.
So, where are those Freedom Rangers right now, Wreaking havoc in my barn. Yeah, they're still on the hoof. December turned out to be extremely busy for the local processors, and they couldn't fit me in anywhere until January. Then when January came, I didn't have the funds at the moment to be butchering them all. And they're still here.
Hehe. But personally, that really says something about the Freedom Rangers. With the Cornish Crosses, I am SO sick of those birds by 6 weeks. By eight weeks of age I hate them so much that it ain't funny. I've never gone more than 9 weeks with a Cornish X. The Freedom Rangers are now something like 5 months old, and they've been a lot of fun to keep around.
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