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Volume 28, Number 2 Fall 2018 Poultry compassionate and respectful treatmentPress of domestic fowl Promoting the Celebrating 28 years of dedicated activism for domestic fowl United Poultry Concerns promotes compassion and respect for chickens, turkeys, and other domestic fowl. UPC# 11656 Photo of Alisa and Amber at our Sanctuary in Machipongo, VA. United Poultry Bird Watching: Observational Journals & Bird Feeders Level: Grades 2 to 6 Duration: Four to Six Weeks Chicken Talk: The Language ofHumane Chickens Education Committee-United Federation of Teachers is unit explores the problems with classroom chick-hatching projects and By Karen Davis presents a variety of alternative projects for young students that focus on bird- Concerns Please visit our exhibit watching activities. e goal is to involve young students in the exciting and highly Our rooster, Glippie, sings on the roof of his motivating study of birds in their natural environments while developing their house, adding to the music of the yard a steady, skills of precise observation, recording, and analysis of what they see and hear, both quiet trill. Living with chickens has made verbally and pictorially. Here are/. two Activities from the unit. For the entire unit, go to me realize how tuneful and talkative these www.upc-online.org/hatching fascinating birds are. e language of chickens is an essential part of their personalities and of I. Activity: Observational Journals their highly developed social life. Chickens start P.O. Box 150 talking even before they are born. Your bird unit will rely on your students’ observational skills, so an observational journal Hatching is very helpful. All children can maintain some kind of a journal. An observational table for free literature Peep! About twenty-four hours before a chick is journal includes illustrations as well as words. It includes questions as well as statements. ready to hatch, it starts peeping to notify its mother Students can make their own notebooks for this purpose. Younger children enjoy making and siblings it is ready to emerge from its shell. their own bird-shaped notebooks which they can trace from your template. is activity, which biologists call “clicking,” helps synchronize the hatching of the baby chicks. A In recording information in an observational journal, children learn to collect observational data and begin to make Machipongo, VA communication network is established among the comparisons over time. Students should make entries in their observational journals on a regular basis, at least twice a chicks, and between the chicks and their mother, week for a month. If you are also asking children to make seasonal comparisons, you can decide as a class when to do Good Lessonswho must stay calm and unru ed for as long follow-up observations and enter dates on your class reminder calendar. An example of an observational journal page as two days while all the peeping, sawing, and follows, but create a format that suits the interests and abilities of your students. and information! breaking of eggs goes on underneath her. Since some of the chicks may have aborted in the shell Bird Observation Alternatives To School Hatching Projectsduring incubation, the peeps inform her how long Date:________________________________________________________________ 23405-0150 she needs to continue sitting on the nest. What I See:___________________________________________________________ Peeps and clucks. As soon as all the eggs are Primeval grumbling growls and gentle squawks. hatched, the hungry mother and her brood go forth When the roosterMy nds Illustration: a place he likes (under a log, eagerly to eat, drink, scratch and explore. perhaps), he settles into it and rocks from side to side, e chicks venture away from their mother, while turning in aII. slow Activity: circle and Bird uttering Feeders primeval communicating back and forth all the while by peeps grumbling growls which may or may not convince the (757) 678-7875 and clucks. e hen keeps track of her little ones hen that this is theBuild place. one She or may more accept bird feedersit, or they near may your school and by counting the peeps of each chick and noting the look for another site.observe the birds from a respectful distance using emotional tones of their voices. roughout thebinoculars. search, the hen squawks gently with When a chick becomes separated from its mother, her beak open, followed by a series of short squawks of it gives a distress call, and the mother hen dashes out diminishing intensity,a)Make to keep bird the feeders rooster by coming smearing back pinecones with peanut to nd it and, if the chick is in danger, to deliver it— to her while she is awaybutter. from theen rollprotection them in of a birdseedthe ock. mix. Use cord around the top for a hanger. hopefully—from the hole in the ground, tangled foliage, b)Clean large plastic jugs very well. Decorate the outside of the jug with non-toxic permanent markers. Suspend from FAX: (757) 678-5070 or threatening predator. Egg cackles. Upon layinga cord. her Fill egg, with the mixed hen givesbird seed.out an egg cackle to announcec)Suspend her happy plastic accomplishment. salad bowls or wooden is salad bowls from cords. Fill them with birdseed. Nesting calls. When a hen is ready to lay an egg, she brings the rooster quickly to her side, and together they gives a pre-laying, or nesting, call, inviting her mate to rejoin the ock. Note: Be sure to remove the cords and remaining materials from the tree when this project is over. If you have started join her in nding a nest site. To human ears, thethis egg project cackle in resembles the fall or the winter, be sure to feed the birds until spring when they can more easily locate another food Together, the hen and rooster nd and create a chicken’s cry of alarm, source.but to the birds there’s a clear nest by pulling and inging around themselves twigs, di erence. A hen with chicks will continue feeding during the egg call, but will dart for cover when the [email protected] feathers, hay, leaves and loose dirt, after they have 8 scraped a depression with their beaks and feet. But rst alarm call goes out. comes the search. 10 United Poultry Concerns PO Box 150, Machipongo, Virginia 23405 USA Visit Our Web Site: www.upc-online.org 757-678-7875 • www.upc-online.org • [email protected] www.upc-online.org We’re running this full-page ad in the Virginia Association of Science Teachers Program for this year’s VAST convention in Williamsburg, Virginia, November 15-17. We expect an enthusiastic response to our literature for teachers and students and appreciate this golden opportunity to advocate for the birds! United Poultry Concerns www.upc-online.org Volume 28, Number 2 The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos is Proud to Announce Our Week of Vigils A first for the Campaign to End Chickens practitioners’ heads who chant that the chicken is a as Kaporos substitute for the practitioner’s punishment, which is fulfilled by the chicken being slaughtered. Prior to the he Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos ritual, the chickens sit crammed in transport crates – a project of United Poultry Concerns for days without food, water, or protection from the – and The Save Movement Worldwide weather. Practitioners stand around Kaporos locations NetworkT are collaborating for the first time ever, with idly chatting while holding the chickens painfully outreach and educational support from Jewish Veg! suspended by their fragile wings. Practitioners lie that This unprecedented joint effort will create a powerful the dead birds are going to “the poor,” when in fact they network working to stop the cruel and unnecessary are thrown both dead and alive into plastic garbage bags torture and slaughter of chickens in New York City to be hauled by city sanitation workers to landfills. streets. “In 2010, I founded the Alliance to End Chickens Kaporos is a custom practiced by a segment of as Kaporos together with a small group of New York Orthodox Judaism in which chickens are swung over City activists, whose numbers and activism have grown United Poultry Concerns • (757) 678-7875 2 P.O. Box 150 • Machipongo, VA 23405-0150 Volume 28, Number 2 United Poultry Concerns www.upc-online.org enormously since then,” says UPC president Karen Davis, PhD. “As more and more activists get involved, and with our legal challenges in the works, more and more Orthodox rabbis are publicly condemning Kaporos on grounds of animal cruelty, shame, and sacrilege.” Kaporos is a mere custom, not Jewish law. It can be observed by swinging money over one’s head to be donated to one’s favorite charity. A few years ago, a Brooklyn rabbi interviewed by a reporter dismissed the money option, saying he preferred the visceral experience of a chicken being slaughtered in his stead. The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos is an association of groups and individuals who seek to replace the use of chickens in Kaporos ceremonies with money or other Kaporos chickens are painfully held by their wings, non-animal symbols of atonement. The Alliance does not slaughtered in the streets, and thrown in the trash. oppose Kaporos per se, only the cruel and unnecessary use of chickens in the ceremony. Court of Appeals Will Hear Case Against Chicken Kaporos, Oct. 17, 2018 n Wednesday, October 17th, at 2pm, the The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos and lower court twenty New York City residents, all named dismissed the plaintiffsO in the lawsuit “The Alliance to End Chickens case, and Marino as Kaporos, et al. v. New York City Police Department, appealed.