Sadly, Asha passed away on Monday morning. We are grateful for the help of our guests, the Iditarod veterinarians, who worked hard to diagnose and treat our sick bird. They gave her shots of B-12 and antibiotics but by the time they treated her, she was just too sick.Given what you know about Asha's sickness and your observations of the other chickens, do you think that our healthy birds are in danger of acquiring the same illness that killed Asha?
Asha is one bird out of twenty. What percent of the total birds does Asha represent?
What do you think the fact that only one of our birds has gotten sick means in terms of the possible cause or her illness?
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BUMMER! Too bad she had to die that way. That would suck. The veterinarians actually worked hard? Well good for them! But Asha died anyways..
I didn't really observe her. So I didn't know anything about her and I never looked at any of the other chickens yet. Our healthy birds are not in any danger to me because Asha was a runt and if she was bigger like the other chickens, I bet she wouldn't have died.
THIS IS SCIENCE! NOT MATH SO I'M NOT DOING THE MATH QUESTION!
Asha update. When we first found Asha is when the 6th graders cleaned the chicken coop. They brought her inside when both of here one side eye was closes. The next day both of her eyes were closes. We kept her alive for about over a week almost two weeks. Now about the other chickens an there lives. I don't the other chickens will get the illness. Cause Asha was the smallest chicken in the chicken coop and Asha weight was never lite beside the other chickens. Now for the math part for this blog. I think it will be about 30%.
I think, given our observations of Asha and the rest of the chickens, well Asha was a bit different than the others. She was a little smaller and she might not have been laying eggs. Her crop was small too. I think she was a runt. The sickness doesn't look like it can spread, but it is possible that in later months, or years that another chicken will die of some kind of illness.
Asha represented 5% of the twenty chickens we had.
I think Asha was picked on when we weren't looking, and maybe she was the only one by the wet or damp hay that had gotten frosted during the very cold days. I don't know, but we are doing fairly good considering we raised and kept alive the chickens in the winter.
I LOVE reading about your chickens. I am hoping for the best for all of them. What a cool project, you are lucky to have a teacher that shows you such great things. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! I can teach you how to put a chicken to sleep (take a nap). I told Mariah the trick, maybe when she's there the next time you can learn how to put your chickens to sleep. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK and GREAT OBSERVATIONS! Good Science! I wonder if Grouse and Ptarmigan are similar? OH, BTW, home grown chickens taste GREAT roasted together with wild Geese. Yummo! I can't wait to read more!
Ashley, Ashley, Ashley, Science and Math DO go together. That's what DATA is, that's why you gather data, numbers, observations, etc in science. Scientists do math when they gather data. 20 chickens take away one chicken is....(ummmmm)
it's all math down to the simplest comparisons. Doing science IS doing math AND Language Arts, too, as you're writing your observations. Tricky how it's all connected. SMART! Science without the math isn't really science.
This is a really cool study. You ever cracked open a chicken egg with two yolks? (what the heck, did I just do math again?) NEway, I wonder why some chickens produce two yolks in one egg. I wonder if grouse or other birds have the same thing happen. I wonder if climate change is effecting chickens in other parts of the world where they rely 100% on their meat. Lots of "I wonder if" questions.
ohhh so math and science and language arts do go together... well i should have known but now i know better and next time i wont be so lazy haha well now i get it
I wish you were here to count the bajillion schmillion Red Polls (red heads) that we have at our school feeders! I can't count up to a bajillion!
Let me teach you how to make a chicken take a nap. It doesn't hurt them. PETA wouldn't allow that and neither would Mr. Brankman!
ASHA HAD RABBIES THEIR WAS FOAM COMING OUT OF HER MOUTH AND HER EYES WERE CLOSED AND THAT IS NOT SAFE FOR THE OTHER CHICKENS SO WE HAD TO PART HER FROM THE OTHERS. AND IT IS CONTAGEOSE
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