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I hope so, but I'm still doubtful. The egg looks empty save the veins, and this is the first egg I've had this issue with.

Yes! I second Sun. If it's a bad egg turning black, you'll know!

So sorry, Grillmaster! The call to help is always a really tough one. I've hit veins jumping the gun, so it really is a rock and a hard place! Honestly, there probably wasn't a great chance for the chick either way. It wasn't anything you did or didn't do, I'm sure. The cards just fold that way...

Have you candled the egg? I hate to bear bad news, but your egg is likely not going to hatch at this point. :(

I had to eat my roos just this past February. I tried rehoming them, but everyone either wanted to eat them or fight them. There were also a few animal hoarders in that mix. So the most humane thing was to fill them up with their favorite junk foods and then send them to the cone. I had a...

So, we've had a lot of bad luck, lately. Two of my sweet hens left me with an egg a piece as their farewell gifts, so I decided to incubate them in hopes of getting two just like them. Well, I was over the moon when I saw tiny veins appear on day 3! However, here we are on day 7, and I can't...

I think I will feel better when the vet acknowledges their very poor treatment of their avian clients, and at least apologizes. Maybe some promise of resolve to do better would help, too. They told me they were giving her an antibiotic injection, and that reasonably could have saved her life. A...

I completely forgot to update this, but I'm happy to report that, as far as I can tell, the seizure was a one time thing. Cricket is a healthy, happy 3 month old rooster!

I'm still so heartbroken. She was my very first egg hatched in an incubator. She was my son's best friend. I have her very last egg set in the incubator, with only a tiny bit of hope, though. I cleaned the coop for the first time since she passed, yesterday, and it made me sad all over again...

Sorry it took me so long to reply, but life has a way of going completely chaotic around here. Yes, the wound the patched was likely an old saddle injury, like I told the vet. They completely ignored the round puncture on her left side, which was the entire point of my visit. I also found out...

I've never had an issue with her laying, yet. She would take a few days off in extreme temps, but she's otherwise been a machine since 24 weeks of age. She's never even layed so much as a shelless egg in heat. I think that's why I was so peeved that the vet didn't think her passing so many was...

Thank you. They charged me as if they knew what they were doing. I took her in to RULE OUT any missed damage. But u am taking her to the diagnostics lab now. If nothing else, they will learn from her the importance of being thorough. Their suture job cost an arm and a leg and my 12 year old...

Yes. She died when she collapsed. She had egg matter coming out of her. I imagine that was what was causing her stress. [/IMG]

I should have been more clear. She had passed at the time of my post. She was expelling egg matter. The vet didn't think it was strange that she had passed TWO formed eggs and two ova, worth checking the cavity. I just want to know, is it not important to check the vent when strange things...

I took my girl to the emergency vet yesterday after finding her attacked by (possibly) a hawk. Her wounds weren't threatening, but I wanted her liked at to make sure there wasn't more injury I wasn't seeing. After being treated poorly by a tech for suggesting birds don't respond to pain like...

Will do!

Thanks MrsB! I hope so too! I feel bad because my son feels awful. He informed me that he cleaned the bottom of the feeder two days ago with soap and water because of stuck on poop, so it's probably because he didn't dry it well. So it happened due to his good intentions, at least. I have...

So I was standing next to my brooder when I noticed my week old chick (just the one) was upside down, seizing. I moved the others away from her until she was done. She went and rested and then seemed normal, just a little slow. In moving the chicks, I tipped the water, so I went to refill it...

This is a question more for curiosity and because the complexity of bird genetics eludes me, but I was hoping someone could explain this gentleman's appearance to me: His mother is a black australorp and his father a production red. I was just very surprised by his unusual look and I'm...