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Coturnix Quail & Tractor
We ordered 20 Coturnix quail eggs in January and started designing and building a moveable quail tractor shortly after. The Coturnix Quail eggs arrived the week after Spring Break and we let them sit for 24 hours before putting them in the incubator. I loved making this quail tractor with my mom and I am…
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The Rio Grande Turkey Family
The Rio hen laid 12 more eggs in her nest. She began incubating them on Easter (April 9th). We were excited to see the poults she hatched on May 6th but sadly we found most of her poults trampled. There were only two survivors. The turkey poults are currently living in a rabbit hutch in…
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My Trip to Costa Rica
My family and I went to Costa Rica for Spring Break on March 14th and we stayed for 6 days. We stayed in three different places. The first place we stayed was Tamarindo. In Tamarindo it was really crowded and there were a lot of tourists. The beach was flat and wide with large rocks in some places. The sand…
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The Ranch with Amelia
It was a Saturday and I had just won my jiu jitsu tournament. My dad had promised me that I would get to invite anyone over that I wanted to and I chose Amelia. Amelia couldn’t come for a Saturday play date but she could come to the ranch on Sunday if that worked and…
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Ranch in the Rain
On Monday my mom and I started to drive to the ranch. Sadly only a few minutes after we left home my mom’s tire started hissing so we drove to the tire place and asked my dad to come get us. Once we got home we waited for an hour and we were just about…
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My Lesson with Ice
My mom and I pulled up to the barn and I hopped out because we were a little late. I was expecting to ride Gracie but instead my trainer Debbie had me grab a brownish gray chestnut with a multicolored mane out of his stall. I had ridden Ice before loads of times but there…
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Book Report: “Mary of the Mayflower“
“Mary of the Mayflower” by Diane Stevenson Stone tells the story of the pilgrims’ journey across the Atlantic Ocean from the viewpoint of the author’s ancestor, Mary Chilton, an English pilgrim girl. This book is historical fiction and based on documents and oral history. This book is full of friendship, sorrow and adversity and Mary…
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Intruder in the Coop
As usual my mom and I drove out to our ranch to feed and let out the chickens and to check on Dancer. We went to check on the chickens first so we drove to the right side of our ranch through the gate. Something was off: the gate was wide open! We drove up…
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Our Chickens
On Monday we went to see the chickens and Dancer. We have one adult rooster named Lavy and five little bantam chickens. Three of the bantam chickens are roosters. We also have two big hens named Cash and Debbie. We recently added two little Easter Egger chicks that we got from Tractor Supply. Debbie and…
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All About Dancer
About a year ago, our family bought a ranch and soon after we got a go-cart. I was driving my mom and we saw a horse next to some cows by a tree through the neighbor’s fence. My mom said,“WAIT STOP!” At first I didn’t see the horse. Then I pressed the go pedal a…
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