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    Oh no is this Mareks?

    She passed yesterday I knew it was coming, she stopped drinking entirely. I am hoping it was just a case of really really compacted crop - her crop felt like there was a stone the size of my fist in it and I couldn't get it to break up at all with massage. When she stopped drinking I knew...
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    Oh no is this Mareks?

    Oh and her legs aren't stiff yet at all she just can't seem to bear any weight on both of them now.
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    Oh no is this Mareks?

    Last night one of our Dominique girls (they were hatched the week of April 7th) was limping and dragging a wing, didn't want to eat only to drink. I couldn't see any sign of injury when I checked her over, her eyes looked fine and she wasn't rasping or making other odd noises when breathing...
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    Chick with goopy eye

    We don't have any vets locally that when I called said they treated chickens, however one of the vets at the local practice is the parent of on my students and I'm wondering if I call him directly if he could help at all. She is doing a touch better this morning, her eye is still yucky but...
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    Chick with goopy eye

    I was typing on my ipad so I didn't fully explain her eye issues. One eye seems to be fine but the other eye is swollen to almost double the size, looks like there is pus almost inside her eye, and she can't seem to see out of it. She's still feisty and a bit annoyed that she is separate. I...
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    Chick with goopy eye

    My chicks are about a week old. When they first hatched last week one came out with eyes sealed shut and one eyeball hugely swollen and goopy. I tried to save her but she never started drinking or eating. I kept her separate as soon as I noticed the eye issue and washed my hands constantly never...
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    Acckkk!

    Great thank you! I see a few wigglers so I am hoping that means we'll get some pipping at some point today. I set them at 9am 21 days ago so hopefully today I'll see some action.
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    Acckkk!

    My brinsea mini incubator had the turner set to on instead of auto. I was gone on lockdown day and didn't realize it was set to that so my co-worker who put the eggs in lockdown for me didn't know he had to set the turner off (totally my fault not his). Today is day 21 and they've been turned...
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    Ack - not turned for 24 hours

    Phew, this is my new laying flock we're incubating and I would be really bummed if we lost the Dominique eggs. The temp has stayed constant we didn't lose power at all and these units do a great job keep the temp even in my classroom with hugely uneven temperatures (which is why I got this one...
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    Ack - not turned for 24 hours

    I have a brinsea octagon advanced 20 that I am currently using to incubate eggs in my classroom. There is a live feed cam on it all the time (not hugely interesting now but nice so I can monitor things from home when needed). I left my classroom Wednesday evening at 4:30 and the incubator was...
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    Could this be sex-linked?

    Thank you! I found on article on here that said the same thing with some searching, which led to a great discussion with my class about sex-linked traits and basic chicken genetics.
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    Could this be sex-linked?

    Far left we have the all black chick that hatched this morning from a brown egg, next to that one we have the first chick to hatch Wed from a brown egg, on the far right we have the all black one with the white spot on the head from a brown egg, and next to that one is the darker brown with...
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    Could this be sex-linked?

    We are hatching eggs in my classroom that will eventually join my home flock. I have 4 EE hens, an EE rooster, 4 Dominiques, and a chicken mutt that probably has some kind of EE in her because she has grayish green legs but lays brown eggs in my home flock. From that flock we had 5 eggs...
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    ISO Silkie eggs for classroom hatch

    I got what I was looking for thank you so much! My kids are beyond excited to do this and it has become a school wide project now with the Kindergarten kids coming in to join my 7th graders so my 7th graders can teach them about the eggs hatching and chicken life cycles (our school is prek-8)...
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    ISO Silkie eggs for classroom hatch

    Forgot to mention I am not looking for a full dozen eggs 6 give or take a few would be perfect.
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