Emily looked at the bird which was being held up by the Slytherin....
a chicken... yes it was a chicken, no doubt it would be a very tasty chicken.

Mmmm... chicken.
Shaking her head Emily shoved the thoughts of roast chicken and terriyaki chicken and scallopini out of her mind...

She raised her hand, "Professor... thats a chicken," she said bluntly. Then thinking she should be more Ravenclaw-esque she elaborated on her answer. "To be more prescise it's a light Sussex chicken. Many muggles keep these in their backyards, they're easy to keep because they feed off grass."

Ah, so the young girl like the attention. Maya would need to remember that aswell. As the chicken rose higher up, a smile threatened to ruin the Mexicana's relaxed expression. Go chicken, go!

"Good observation skills." Yeah. "Anything else you can tell me about the chicken?" Hm? How about "What good resources can you get from a chicken, Miss Shepard?"

"Correct you are, Miss Flores." First to answer...Maya needed to remember that. Hehe.

"Mhm. Thankyou for giving us a precise name. You are also correct." Nod nod.

Oh oh oh, Maya hoped the duck would befriend the young Hufflepuff. Hehehehehe.

Ah, details. "Thankyou...for the details. And si, you are right."

What.

Blinking once, Maya stared at the young girl as she just walked by and went to converse with the sheep. Nevermind that she was ignoring the lesson, she was late aswell. "Excuse you." Like, "Leave whatever it is you are carrying over there and take a seat, Miss Woods. Forty-seven points from Slytherin for lateness." She arched an eyebrow and waited for the girl to move.

Spanish. Heh. "Si?" Oh it was the Gryffindor Prefect.

And he had a point. "Si, you are somewhat right, Mister Hudson. Assuming that the egg was hatched under a toad, then yes, it is the Basilisk mother. Good thinking. That is another way magical and non magical creatures are connected."

"Thankyou for that. You are correct aswell." Nod nod.


"Did you know, that the chicken is the closest relative to the T. Rex? Remember that giant robotic dinosaur that moved in the Museum? Well that dinosaur and that chicken could be related." Yup.


Still standing next to Nelson the cow, Maya put down the bucket of yum and pointed to a small wicker basket full of eggs. "I wan't each of you to take one egg...each - and keep it safe." Got it? Yes, no more details on why. Hehe.

Maya waited for everyone to grab an egg and return to their seats. "If I can direct your attention to this marvellous creature," she smiled at the young cow, "This is Nelson. He is a Belted Galloway calf." See? SEE THE CUTENESS? "A cow has many valuable resources," right? "Who knows what they are? One answer each please."

Simon looked at the Professor, the cow wasn't cute, maybe the Professor needed to look more closely at it. "Well I know you get something from it." Simon thought hard. "Mi..Mul..Mik..Milk." Simon smiled. "That it they produce Milk that people drink." Simon looked at the Professor and waited to see if he was right.

"Some people eat cows in the form of steak, hamburger, and the like," Rowan said, shuddering at the thought. How anyone could ever eat such a sweet animal she would never understand.

"A chicken is the closest relative to a T-rex?!" Emily smiled looking at the chicken. That was so cool! She'd be watching chickens more closely now.

Why did they have to take an egg? She shrugged and got up to take an egg. She sat down on her log seat again with the egg carefully in her hands. She'd never really held one before, except when she'd painted one with her cousin at easter. As long as she didn't drop it!

Emily quicked raised her hand, being careful not to drop her egg.
"A cow gives milk, for drinking and cereal!" Yeah, that was what she used milk for anyway. She nodded and turned her egg in her hands. DO NOT DROP IT!

By the time the lesson had started, she was splayed out on the stomach propped up on her elbows, with her little bunny in her hold and a few of its friends surrounding her. Totally returning the evil eye she was receiving from Destiny and trying to will the chicken to poop on her, she had missed the first question. Opps.

Well, she already knew what a chicken was so it didn't really bother her. Glaring at Destiny Looking at the chicken Destiny was holding, she wondered if it could bite like dinosaur. Maybe attack Destiny. Rawrr! That would be awesome.

Arya reluctantly moved to retrieve an egg before going back to her bunnies. Why did they need an egg? She didn't know. Hmm.

"You can ride a cow." She carefully turned the egg in her hands, watching it with interest. "Not Nelson though, he's to small and cute to ride."

Cows? That seemed rather...unmagical for a magical creatures class. Still, he'd never actually SEEN a cow up close! And this cow was super cute. He was just the cutest little baby cow ever!

He raised his hand. "People have already said that cows give milk, but that milk can further be turned into other stuff like...cheese!" he explained. Cheese was DELICIOUS. It made so many other foods a lot better. Like broccoli. Broccoli was SO much better when covered in melted cheese.

Luin had stayed well away from the girl as she lifted the chicken up, not wanting to be scratched or..pooped on. Type of chicken, now that was a bit far ahead of her, not something she was particularly interested in at the moment. She then looked at the cow as the professor pointed it out. She thought about what she knew about cows, "Cows are often used as draft animals, pulling plows and other implements like them."

She was holding...er-what was that exactly? It looked like a giant mass of feathers and a sharp point for a mouth. It looked scary. Not that Samira was scared. Of course she wasn't!

...Oh who was she kidding? She was scared out of her wits. She had bad experiences with feathers...don't ask.

"YAY!" Nika ran over to the cute little bunny and picked it up. She cradled it in her arms carefully as she took a seat on a log. "Awww! You are the cuuuteest bunny ever! I'm going to call you fluffers!"

Nika walked over to the eggs with the bunny still in her arms. She reached over and picked one up. "Look fluffers, you're going to have a new friend!" Nika kept the egg in her cupped hand. "Well it could be a cool subject for a painter to paint! Does that count as a resource?"

Haha. Yes, SUP.

And...well...Might or might not doesn't work for an answer, Saylen. But he was NOT commenting on it. Nope. Mr. Stryker might or might not show up. This were HIS grounds, anyway.

Oh, but yes, the chicken with Chicken!girl. Usual stuff. Until. Blink, blink, blink. Why were they going to need the egg for? And why do they had to keep it safe? "Why the egg?" he asked, while taking the little egg and returning to his seat. See, he asked, but he did it anyway. We're listening to what you say, Saylen.

Poor Nelson, the cow, seemed to be in the need of running away from the woman, or that's what things look to Treyen. He smirked, and raised his hand, "Leather, Professor."

Sierra Greingoth was not pleased. First and foremost, she'd been one of the last few to arrive to class, and her blasted log chair had been cut diagonally, rather than straight across, at the top. She kept sliding off and having to catch herself by grinding the heels of her shoes into the ground. She eyed Kurumi Hollingberry, wishing the girl would get up for a split second, so Sierra could steal her log. It looked nice and straight, loads better than the pitiful one Sierra had ended up with.

Secondly, this was yet another class about Muggles. Only this time, it was about Muggle animals rather than Muggle humans. Wasn't this supposed to be Care of Magical Creatures?! The only thing she found half-amusing was Patroclus Hudson's answer about the chicken. Or hen. Or rooster. What it was. She bit her bottom lip and laughed a little just before reaching forward and taking an egg out of the wicker basket.

She turned to the 'marvelous creature' the professor was pointing out, expecting to at least see a clabbert or something. But no--it was a cow. Big deal. She would have preferred a flobberworm at this point. She eyed her brother out of the corner of her eye. What was he so excited about cheese for?! Oh, ...right. He was a Hufflepuff. That just explained everything. Raising her hand, she said, "Cows produce natural fertilizer," she said. It was true. You let one of those things poop in an area, and the grass would be greener than a Christmas tree.

Kurumi's eyes bugged out of her head when Professor Saylen took away a massive chunk of points from Slytherin. Then again, the first year had come in late...

She then turned her attention back to the professor and figured it was about time that she took a seat, but she wasn't letting go of her bunny. "Um, Professor," Kurumi said slowly raising her hand. "I've read that cow urine is exceptionally beneficial. It is an excellent germicide and is capable of killing may different kids of germs. It may even be able to kill all diseases that are caused by germs."

WAIT?!?! DINOSAURS WHERE?!?!


Patroclus' heart began to bounce like a drum, he wanted to study dinosaurs, and Smexy had brought them for him!!

Oh....no she hadn't she was just saying that they were a common ancestor of the chicken.

And now they were onto cows, "You can use their dung for not just Fertilizer like Sierra said, but also a fuel!" Patroclus supplied with his boundless knowledge, "It can be used to light fires, as its chemical content ensures a long burn!"

It would probably reak but!

WAH!

Could she put the chicken down now? If she held it any longer, she thought she was going to be lifted off the log and then be flown away. Merlin knew where the creature would take her. Probably to some far off chicken land.

Which, in Destiny's opinion, would be AWESOME!

But, she didn't have to wait for the Professor to tell her to let it go, the chicken was too strong and it finally made it's way out of her hands. Destiny watched the thing run away. Pfft, like she would want to pick it up again after that. "Chickens can run fast." As she just witnessed. "And they find worms."

Worms = resources. If you were a chicken.

Turning away from the runaway chicken, Destiny glared at Arya before turning back to the Professor when she mentioned the dinorawrs. So..the chicken and dinorawr could be related..which meant..she could be a dinorawr, too!? Merlin! This was turning out to be one of her favorite classes EVER!

She was learning so much about herself!

Jumping from her log, she skipped her way over to grab an egg, making sure not to step on any of the animals walking around. Skipping back to her seat, she turned her attention to the Nelson. Nelson the COW. Destiny thought the Professor should have come up with a more creative name than that, but who was she to judge. Meh. "Cows give people mad cow disease." she said, her hand high in the air.

Which, in Destiny's opinion, was a resource.

That chicken was related to the dinoswore?! How was THAT even possible?! It made no sense in her mind. She would have thought the dinoswore would have been related to the dragons...

And why did they have to take an egg? What were they going to do with it? Feed it to the cow? Speaking of the cow...it had a very strange name.

...

Evelyn didn't like cows.

Or chickens.

She had no idea about what resources they gave other then the fact that people ate them. And they smelled. "Well if you find yourself needing a friend...when in doubt, choose a cow!" Erm...not her though. She'd rather have humans as friends.

Selina walked into the make-shift classroom and looked around at the strange animals scattered about. Everything was so weird from the chairs to the animals. The only thing that was relatively normal was the students who had already taken their seats. When she walked in she saw Professor Saylen, "Morning ma'am. How are you?"

Then the lesson began and Selina saw a huge mess with Slytherin. Those were a lot of points.

Once that was done she collected her egg and drew her Attention to what Saylen was gesturing to.

Aww look at the little cow. He was so cute. Of all the farm animals in the commune, Mia liked the cows the best. At the Professor's question, she raised her hand into the air. "Professor! Did you know that the cow is the only animal whose dung does NOT stink?" Just in case everyone wanted to know that. "And it acts as a mosquito repellent." That's rather resourceful in her opinion.

She put her hand down and felt a small tug on the end of her jeans. Looking down, Mia saw the black duck trying to eat her pants. She gave her leg a small shake hoping to deter it. "Knock it off Donald." She hissed at it and it in return hissed back at her. So she poked her tongue at it and drew her leg up higher and out of reach.

Emily took an egg... an egg??? and returned to her seat.
Why were they looking after an egg?
Odd... Emily justed hoped Professor Saylen didn't expect them to hatch it...

Emily tilted her head slightly- to get a better look at the calf... because having her on straight didn't work???...

Nelson was adorable!!! those gorgeous eyes! and his wet shiny nose!!!... or was it called a muzzle? ... meh same thing.

"Professor, they're a valuable food resource. Their milk can produce many different things... aside from milk, theres cheese, cream, yogurt... etc."

47 points from Slytherin?!?! Waaahh!?!?!

Samira glared daggers into the head of the person who just cost her house some valuable points. She hoped they would burn a hole in her head...

Sighing, Samira resovled to win the points back some way or another.

Honestly if you don't like the class at least try for the other Slytherins...

Following the instructions, Samira scooped down and held a chicken egg gently in her small hand. As she sat down, Samira looked at the animal-a calf-the professor was pointing to. Umm...

Samira raised her hand. "Meat?"

Cedric walked toward the basket-ful of eggs and took a sole egg from it. He could keep it safe. He was a very careful kid, you know. And it breaking into pieces was the least that could happen to the unhatched creature inside it.

Cedric stared at the calf, contemplatively. He had developed this habit of using his spare time wisely, and some of his spare time had been used in the Animal Collective. He knew that calf. He liked animals, you know. They were just really gentle creatures that knew nothing of the harshness that is the world, just like him. Hehe. "We uh, consume their meat? And their milk. The cow pollutes the environment by the methane gas (read: fart) they release but for some countries, they process the gas and use it as a sort of fuel for their cars and stuffs."

Chicken can run fast? Ha. Of course they do. And they find worms? Hmm. Interesting. A smirk slyly worked its way up to the Hufflepuff's lips as a ingenious thought so suddenly yet expectedly struck his mind.

"So, Destiny, is that how you got rid of your tapeworms?" Hehe. "By feeding them to chickens."

Merlin that cow was adorable! K-Lee just wanted to glomp it. Better get an ewgg first. Taking one egg, she held it carefully, still staring at the cute as cow.

"Cow's give milk! Milk is used in lots of foods and is generally nice by itself." K-Lee said proudly. She knew so much about cows, she should write a book about cows!

Hang on, did some first year just lose Slytherin 47 points! K-Lee was outraged! 47 points!!! That was almost as many points that she had earned the entire year all up! Pout.

Kyle had been sitting in the room silently before she finally spoke up.

"Well, Belties are normally Beef cows which are used as a source of meat both by muggles and wizards alike." Kyle spoke, as she did she felt something nudge her, and turning saw a little pig behind her. Bending down she petted it. Happy pig, he was cute and muddy. Heh.

She felt a little chicken peck her foot and leaning down gently, let it come over to her hand where she swiftly picked it up making sure to put her hands over the wings so as to make it impossible for them to be broken. Gently she lifted it.

"Professor, isn't it true that most chickens - well the female hens are fed ground oyster shells to strengthen their own eggs and to make sure the eggs don't break easily." She asked intrigued.

Emmy grinned, as the Snake lost her house FORTY-SEVEN points... Thank goodness she'd not done that! Like Emmy was ever late for lessons...
She raised her hand, and said, "Um, Professor? Cowhide is used for leather - to make clothes, shoes, bags and suchlike isn't it?" She wasn't one hundred percent sure on the processes, but she knew it happened...

Annabelle wrote down that a chicken is related to the T Rex, she didn't know that. She remembered when they visited the musuem. That was so much fun! Belle looked at the cow, she had seen many in car trips. It was nothing too special but it was cute! "Professor isn't one resource for a cow, is that their feces is used for manure to help plants grow?" she asked.