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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...

Oh and her legs aren't stiff yet at all she just can't seem to bear any weight on both of them now.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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)...

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

My classroom is studying genetics and embryology by hatching eggs. I really want to hatch out some silkies for them to see and do some inquiry based learning around why silkies have such dark skin compared to other chicken varieties. In all honesty I can't afford to pay much BUT I can afford...

We are mostly ready for snow, but I don't think this storm is going to produce much (but don't tell my students that they were all hopeful today at school that we would have a snow day tomorrow). My heated dog bowl hasn't arrived yet but I am hoping it will come tomorrow. I only had to chip...

I blame our variety on my kids, who can resist when 3 little girls see the fluffy chickens at the fair and beg for a Silkie :) I plan to try and hatch a few if I can get some fertile Silkie eggs, for the kids of course. I can't let them down now can I? Plus I like having a mix of birds in our...

He is a very good boy, he's still a bit shy with us but I head out every night with a handful of sunflower seeds and that is bringing him around, as long as the girls aren't being flighty around us he will come closer. He has taken right to our younger girls, the older girls can take him or...

Okay good I thought I had done something wrong when I introduced them because they weren't hanging all out as a big group. They all seem perfectly happy though and sharing a coop/run isnt' an issue. They each have their own hangout in our yard. The older ladies hang out under the blue spruce...