An update from the Danvers family We were the first family to care for the chickens over the break.  We looked after them for a week. They were super cute. Shelby, her Grandpa, and I worked as a team to give the chicks fresh water and food daily, clean bedding and lots of cuddles. They have pretty big personalities for being so tiny! We miss them already and are super excited to see them in their home in the fall ..read more

A new round of chicks hatched in the Alpenglow classroom this weekend!  The first two chicks, which hatched Friday afternoon, are now moved to a small heated brooder, and as of yesterday a total of 14 chicks have hatched!   ​Take a look at these amazing photos ..read more

Written by Grade 5/6 Students Asha & Ava Sadly, chicken Freddie past away last month at 36 months old. She past away from a combination of cold temperatures and old age. We wish her well on her next adventure. On March 27, 2019, our current beloved chickens have gone off to a new home with Mr. Callum, our chicken expert, in exchange for newly fertilized eggs. We will receive the new eggs shortly after spring break. Until then we will be doing a chicken coop deep clean and cleanse for the new chicks ..read more

Big changes are afoot for our Alpenglow chickens! ​After careful consideration and consultation with our chicken expert, Mr. Callum, it has been decided that the current cohort of chickens, raised by Alpenglow students in 2017, will be relocated to join Mr. Callum's brood of chickens. This spring Alpenglow students will raise a new cohort of chicks which will eventually move into the chicken coop to live and lay eggs happily. We will begin this process right after Spring Break by incubating chicken eggs in the Gr. 3/4 classroom. Our Grade 3 students, who will be studying Life Cycles for our n ..read more

By Jordy, Tucker, Olivia, Kai, Tristen, Norah and Larix Grade 5/6 Students at Alpenglow School Alpenglow School looks after 11 chickens. They are kept outside in an atrium located within CCHS. Everyday the grade 5/6 class looks after the chickens by feeding them and giving them water and lots of love. Roughly twice a month we clean their chicken coop. All of our chickens have names! The amount of eggs we are normally receiving at this time of year is about four or five a day. After we collect the eggs we sanitize them and keep them in the fridge.  We sell cartons of twelve eggs for a sug ..read more

Chicken Report by Jewel & Aria They are laying lots of eggs lately.  They love to eat dandelions from the school garden. They do not peck you.   Our Silkie (breed) chicken passed away a few weeks ago.  Her name is Leonardo.  In February our chickens, including Leonardo, earned two first places and a second place in a chicken show (the North-Central Alberta Poultry Association Show; website:http://www.ncapoultrya.com).  Leonardo was on of the first place winners. The chickens love to cuddle.  They are a little noisy.  Our class has been n ..read more

The Alpenglow chickens got a visit from Alberta's minister of Education David Eggen this past Monday morning!   Take a look at the Banff Crag and Canyon's article on his visit! http://www.thecragandcanyon.ca/2018/04/18/provincial-minister-of-education-goes-to-the-birds-in-canmore ..read more

A few of the Alpenglow chickens are back from their recent competition at the North Central Alberta Poultry Show in Wetaskiwin, Alberta (http://www.ncapoultrya.com/index.html) and have won medals in each event they participated in!  They have won two first place ribbons and one second place ribbon! Congratulations to the Alpenglow and CCHS students that have been instrumental in their safe keeping and care!  You have been doing an amazing job and it shows.  Keep up the fantastic work! ​We can now look forward to a future poultry show competition in a Provincial wide event ..read more

​Student update written by Kacee and Renee - Chicken experts! As the new school year is here, our chickens are beginning to molt (which means lose all their feathers!). Now that our chickens are full grown, our average number of eggs a day is around six.  Over the weekends we can normally collect about one dozen.  Now that we have so many eggs we are distributing them to Alpenglow families, for a donation.  If you receive a email from Alpenglow school you are welcome to come to Canmore Collegiate during a normal school day and give a donation. Our friend from the town of Canmor ..read more

Over the summer our chickens have been busy! With lots of love from Mr. Clay, Ms. Lindsey, Ms. Avni and the Alpine Edibles team our chickens managed to lay quite a few eggs!  Farmer Christian was even able to bring some select birds up to the garden to help with weeding in a mobile chicken coop.  In the summer we started to notice that one of our "silkies" is a touch broody, a interesting learning for us is to find that often "silkies," become broody! We have had no incidents with animals and our birds seem as happy as can be ..read more