ELeVan ~ Honaker Farm Journal

[elevan]

Wouldn't you know it! The very day that I decide to put duck eggs under a chicken the darn duck decides to go broody herself?! I'll be swapping out he chicken eggs that the duck is sitting on later for some duck eggs. Crazy birds!

Looks like Laurel (duck) isn't broody after all...? She's been off the nest for a couple of hours now...unless that's normal for ducks?

I'm just gonna stick with Cinni (chicken) hatching some duck eggs. I'm not sure that I want the ducks hatching their own until we get a separate coop built for them.


DH is on his way home running late due to an accident on the freeway. He's about 5 miles North of the accident and hoping to get another couple of miles South so he can exit to take an alternative route.

Dinner is stalled until he gets here as he has part of my ingredients. He also has my thermostat, so I can finish the incubator.

I talked to the bus driver when she brought the boys home. B was being unruly on the ride home on Monday and she turned in the slip to the office on Tuesday morning. The principal is just now getting around to deal with it though. I'm getting really frustrated with B and the school both!

 

[Queen Mum]

How old is B again? Isn't he just a little guy? It sounds like they need to do an intervention rather than a suspension. There is no connection for him. He sounds impulsive. Acts first then thinks. Not disinhibited. Thinks and then acts anyway. The problem there is that with a disinhibited kid, punishment and suspension may work, because it provides disincentive. But with an impulsive kid, punishment won't work because the kid isn't going to think about punishment first before his action. His behavior comes before the thought. SO he needs something like "karate" behavior management. Train, train, train until the desired behavior becomes automatic. Replace undesired behavior with desired behavior.

The school district SHOULD know this already!

 

[autumnprairie]

I hope it all works out

 

[elevan]

How old is B again? Isn't he just a little guy? It sounds like they need to do an intervention rather than a suspension. There is no connection for him. He sounds impulsive. Acts first then thinks. Not disinhibited. Thinks and then acts anyway. The problem there is that with a disinhibited kid, punishment and suspension may work, because it provides disincentive. But with an impulsive kid, punishment won't work because the kid isn't going to think about punishment first before his action. His behavior comes before the thought. SO he needs something like "karate" behavior management. Train, train, train until the desired behavior becomes automatic. Replace undesired behavior with desired behavior.

The school district SHOULD know this already!

He'll be 6 in May. He's extremely impulsive. His brain literally takes a vacation. He doesn't see being sent to the office or home as punishment. He doesn't see getting kicked off the bus as punishment. He'll forget it happened and why 5 minutes later.

We do have an appointment with the assistant principal at the school this Friday. She is head of Special Educational Services at the school. Then he has an appointment with a Behavioral Health center next week for evaluation.

 

[autumnprairie]

How old is B again? Isn't he just a little guy? It sounds like they need to do an intervention rather than a suspension. There is no connection for him. He sounds impulsive. Acts first then thinks. Not disinhibited. Thinks and then acts anyway. The problem there is that with a disinhibited kid, punishment and suspension may work, because it provides disincentive. But with an impulsive kid, punishment won't work because the kid isn't going to think about punishment first before his action. His behavior comes before the thought. SO he needs something like "karate" behavior management. Train, train, train until the desired behavior becomes automatic. Replace undesired behavior with desired behavior.

The school district SHOULD know this already!

He'll be 6 in May. He's extremely impulsive. His brain literally takes a vacation. He doesn't see being sent to the office or home as punishment. He doesn't see getting kicked off the bus as punishment. He'll forget it happened and why 5 minutes later.

We do have an appointment with the assistant principal at the school this Friday. She is head of Special Educational Services at the school. Then he has an appointment with a Behavioral Health center next week for evaluation.

 

[Roll farms]

This is going to seem random, but did you find out what your mystery egg was? I must have gotten busy w/ kids and bunny barns and missed the outcome.

Sorry 'bout all the trouble w/ kids / schools. I'm so glad I'm done w/ that issue. I never saw eye-to-eye w/ how they handled anything.

 

[elevan]

This is going to seem random, but did you find out what your mystery egg was? I must have gotten busy w/ kids and bunny barns and missed the outcome.

I'm going with the presumption that they are the East India ducks. I have 3 of them under a chicken for hatching right now...so we'll see in 27 more days

 

[Sunny & the 5 egg layers]

This is going to seem random, but did you find out what your mystery egg was? I must have gotten busy w/ kids and bunny barns and missed the outcome.

I'm going with the presumption that they are the East India ducks. I have 3 of them under a chicken for hatching right now...so we'll see in 27 more days

Make that 52 more days! I just know it's an emu!

 

[elevan]

I still need to change out the thermostat but here's my homemade incubator:

 

[ThreeBoysChicks]

It won't stop here. You need to go purchase the bator that holds 300 eggs and be done with it.