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Zia Middle School FFA Organization is dedicated to making a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education.

Chapter Shout out!On the last day of finals, Elizabeth Dow presented her final project with class & diligence. Ms. Dow d...
05/24/2023

Chapter Shout out!

On the last day of finals, Elizabeth Dow presented her final project with class & diligence. Ms. Dow did a fantastic job sticking to her $1000.00 budget, in picking out a breed of chicken, buying a coop, bedding, feed, and other supplies to manage her flock. Ms. Dow also nailed her rubric, she had a great description on eggology and was able to explain embryonic development with ease.

Elizabeth Dow also went above and beyond the final project expectations—she included live chickens, actual feed samples, eggs, a chicken coop popsicle stick, and a photo book to go with her presentation.

Excellent Job Ms. Dow! We are so proud of you!

Chapter shout out!Another one of our students, Paisley Knight, had $1000.00 budget to buy chickens, feed, shelter, tools...
05/23/2023

Chapter shout out!

Another one of our students, Paisley Knight, had $1000.00 budget to buy chickens, feed, shelter, tools and supplies to manage her flock. Paisley accomplished this and more with her excellent visuals! The trifold was required for her final project, but she went above and beyond with her additional visual aids, chickens, eggs, popsicle coop and show products.

Paisley Knight, is also a 4H member and has experience in raising, handling, and showing chickens. She was able to bring this experience to the classroom and demonstrated her knowledge to her fellow students by teaching them how to wash and show a chicken!

Thank you Paisley for your outstanding work, and for going above and beyond what was expected for this final project! We are incredibly proud of you!

Chapter shout out!Carter black did an amazing job presenting his finalProject! Students had a $1000.00 budget to buy chi...
05/22/2023

Chapter shout out!

Carter black did an amazing job presenting his final
Project!

Students had a $1000.00 budget to buy chickens, feed, bedding, a coop, tools and supplies to manage their flock. Then type and create a visual to present their work. Carter stuck to his budget, and spent $900 on everything for a year! He strategically organized his trifold to display all his information correctly and wrote a script to help guide his presentation!

Carter nailed everything on his rubric and brought in some chicks to go along with his presentation as extra credit!

Excellent job Carter! Thank you for going above and beyond! We are so proud of you!

The 2023 FFA Banquet was a success!Members, chapter sponsors, volunteers and other distinguished helpers were recognized...
05/19/2023

The 2023 FFA Banquet was a success!

Members, chapter sponsors, volunteers and other distinguished helpers were recognized for their hard work, kind hearts, contributions and more Wednesday evening.

1. Fundraising Awards
There were 3 awards for this category and the members who received this award are the top three students who raised the most money for our chapter.
-1st place: Paisley Knight $345
-2nd Place: Cash Priest $241
-3rd Place: Nathaniel Feirro $240

2. Kind Heart Award(s)
There are 4 students who received this award. These students took the extra time out of their day to help me move our chapters SAE project, baby chicks, and all of my supplies for them out of the classroom and into my truck. After we experienced a horrible mishap here on campus. These members showed extreme kindness, love and respect. Each of these members were recognized for their kind and genuine hearts.
-Paisley Knight
-Georgia Armstrong
-Landon Kuehlenz
-George Collins

3. Leadership Award
This award went to a member who is constantly prepared in and out of the classroom and FFA. This student is always asking me what he needs to prepare for and bring, for our next meeting, practice or banquet. He always wants to be ready, planned and ahead of the game. He is also always kind, genuine and respectful to me, and his fellow FFA members. He is only 14 but is more wise and mature beyond his age. This award was presented to…

-Cash Priest

4. Chapter Service Award
There were two members who received this award. These two members helped me unload chicken feed and wood from my truck when we first began our Chick Project. These two boys were awarded for their help and service to the chapter
-Cash Priest
-Bobby Otero

Recognitions

5. Distinguished Service

Tractor Supply
Our chapter thanked and recognized Anthony, the manager at Tractor Supply, for Sponsoring a Galvanized Stock tank to brood our chicks in.

Josh Armstrong
Our chapter thanked and recognized Mr. Armstrong for hosting horse judging practice this past spring not only for our FFA Chapter, but for all local FFA and 4H members in our community. Again, we thank you for your dedication, time and expertise in guiding our members to be better horsemen and women.

Rachel Knight
Mrs. Tindal personally recognized Mrs. Knight for being her right hand lady. If she ever had a question, or needed advice she has always been a text or call away. Again, Thank you for your constant wisdom, knowledge and grace. Thank you for helping me these past 3 years become a better agriculture teacher and FFA Advisor.

At the end of the banquet, every member received a gift 🎁 they got a custom hat and t-shirt! ♥️

Parents,Our 2nd period, 7th grade students, will be creating a project for their final exam. They have been aware of thi...
05/11/2023

Parents,
Our 2nd period, 7th grade students, will be creating a project for their final exam. They have been aware of this project since this past Monday. They already have the rubric. They were encouraged to begin working on it at home. Today I am posting the rubric so you are also aware ahead of time for what I am looking for. They will have a full week in class to work on this project. May 22 is when they will present.

Our 1st Period, 8th grade students, opted in taking a 4 page muiltiple choice, fill in the blank, draw and label, and matching terms to their definitions test. (They are allowed to use all their binder notes and past assignments to help them on the test).

Hello all FFA members and ParentsPlease come join our end of the year banquet! 🙂We look forward in seeing you!
05/10/2023

Hello all FFA members and Parents
Please come join our end of the year banquet! 🙂
We look forward in seeing you!

When a chicken consumes feed it first begins at the beak, then travels down through the esophagus. At the end of the eso...
04/27/2023

When a chicken consumes feed it first begins at the beak, then travels down through the esophagus. At the end of the esophagus feed is stored in the crop. Feed is stored there for about 12 hours and is soften, then it is slowly releases into the proventriculus (AKA: The true stomach). In the proventriculus is where actual digestion begins. Feed continues to soften and moves into the gizzard. The gizzard is a muscular stomach where the grinding of food takes place. Once the food is grounded it will pass into the small intestine. Digestion and absorption occur in the small intestine. This includes the Duodenal loop, jejenum & ileum. As food moves through the duodenal loop the pancreas releases digestive hormones & bicarbonate. Enzymes trypsin & chymotrypsin digest proteins. Amalyse breaks down carbohydrates. Lipase breaks down fats. The gal ladder then releases bike into the small intestine to help continue the digestive process. Feed continues to move to the jejunum & ileum where most of the nutrients from the feed are absorbed into the body. Finally the feed moves into the large intestine where most of the water from the feed is absorbed. Any feed that wasn’t absorbed is pushed out as excrement through the cloaca.

Bringing in the feed and bedding for the chicks
04/25/2023

Bringing in the feed and bedding for the chicks

6th grade: best poster!Our chapter gets a new set of 6th grade students every 9 weeks, as they rotate through different ...
04/25/2023

6th grade: best poster!

Our chapter gets a new set of 6th grade students every 9 weeks, as they rotate through different electives. Last week students researched different by products of plants and animals!

Students getting brooder ready
04/25/2023

Students getting brooder ready

While chicks are close to hatching the learning continues! Today students set boiled eggs into food dye. They have been ...
04/24/2023

While chicks are close to hatching the learning continues! Today students set boiled eggs into food dye. They have been learning about embryonic development during incubation. As all embryos need oxygen to grow, the air cell in the egg allows the growing chick to breathe. Oxygen and carbon dioxide pass through the tiny pores of the egg shell. To demonstrate this phenomenon, tomorrow student will deshell the boiled eggs and check for food die on the albumen (the white of the egg).

Following, students will dive into the anatomy, nutrition, digestion and handling!

Just a couple more days until hatching!
04/22/2023

Just a couple more days until hatching!

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Las Cruces, NM
88005

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm

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+15755184162

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