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Clifton Hills Primary School - 5th August 2008 |
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We began this meeting by watching a DVD called ‘Farm Animals and Us in Australia’. This DVD was produced by CIWF Trust in Australia and it discussed different animal welfare issues.
We paid particular attention to the segments that focused on chicken and egg farming. After watching the show we discussed how it was similar and different to the movie we watched the week before. We also talked about how people treated and looked after the chickens while they were alive and what we could do to improve the chicken’s lives. For example, we thought that it would be better to take the egg laying chickens out of the cages and let them roam free on the farm.
This DVD was funded by a Voiceless grant in 2004.
We also talked about:
- How we felt very sorry for the chickens that were bred for meat because their bodies were too heavy for their little legs to carry them around so they couldn’t stand up properly.
- How we felt very sad for the chickens bred for laying eggs because they were kept in these tiny little cages for their entire lives and they never, ever got to experience the great outdoors, fresh air and sunshine.
After our discussion we held a brainstorming session to come up with some chicken messages we could share with the other students and staff of our school and the people in our community. Below is a list of the messages we came up with:
- Take chickens out of cages and give them space to move.
- Free Range chickens have better lives.
- Free the caged chickens.
- Healthy chickens lay healthy eggs.
- Free Range eggs come from happy chickens.
- Caged eggs come with a consequence.
- Treat chickens with the same respect you like.
- Chickens deserve a good life.
- If you were a chicken would you live in a cage?
Over the next couple of weeks we will be making library bags that have these messages on them. |
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Ridge Street Kids Club -4th August 2008 |
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Cruelty Free Cakes!
For this week's activity we held a cruelty free cooking class, where we learnt how to make a cake without eggs or dairy. The cake was delicious, and co-incided well with a staff members birthday.
The children decided that making cakes without eggs was more fun, tasted better, and was healthier- especially as we could eat the raw mixture!
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Yuluma Primary School - 1st August 2008 |
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Recently two of our Yr 7 Animal Club members set up an Animal Club display in our Library. It described some of the things we do in our Animal Club and had a strong focus on Free Range Eggs. Our District Director was even in to have a look at it. |
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Clifton Hills Primary School - 29th July 2008 |
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CHPS is back for another fun filled term of learning about and assisting our animal friends. We begun this term by watching a DVD titled "It all starts with an Egg". This DVD outlines the journey of Australian eggs from the farm to the table and it was produced by the Australian Egg Corporation in 2007.
After watching the movie we brainstormed some interesting facts the DVD shared with us, for example:
- There are three types of egg farming in Australia: Cage Farms, Barn Farms and Free Range Farms.
- The Cage Farms provided the chickens with good food and water and there are no predators.
- The Barn Farms allowed the chickens to move around and provided them with perches as well as good food and water.
- The Free Range Farms were the best. They allowed the chickens to lay their eggs in the laying hut and move freely around on the farm land where they could scratch and dig holes. These chickens also received good food and water, as well as fresh grass and the sun on them. A lot of care was also taken to protect the free range chickens, for example, people had to wear special suits and boots, all cars going into the farm had to be sterilised, and the chickens had their very own guard dog (a Marema dog bred just to look after them) was provided to protect them from hawks, etc…
Animal Club members watch a movie about eggs.
We also discussed that although the movie told us the truth it did not tell us all of the information, such as the size of the tiny cages the chickens are kept in on the Cage farms.
To get a better understanding of the size of the cages we divided into groups of 5 and took turns squatting inside a 1m square box drawn on the floor. This was very uncomfortable and some people had parts of their body hanging over the line. We couldn’t imagine spending our whole lives living like this!
After that we talked about which eggs people buy the most and why people might buy those eggs. During this discussion we learnt that approx 80% of people buy cage eggs, 15% by barn eggs and 5% by free range eggs. When we were talking about why this might be we decided that it was probably due to the cost of the eggs and Miss. Baile told us that Cage eggs cost approx $3.80 for a dozen, Barn eggs cost approx $4.50 for a dozen and Free range eggs cost approx $5.80 for a dozen.
Next week we will be looking at another video that tells us some more about how the chickens live on these farms, so until then cluck-cluck for now.
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Ridge Street Kids Club - 28th July 2008 |
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Chicken Module cont...
The next week children were shown a life-like model (see picture) of what battery caged chickens look like. Seeing the model made everyone realise just how hard it must be for battery caged hens.
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