What are Chicken Scratchings? They are the observations of our teachers and student scientists at the various institutes associated with this project. Scratchings forums are designed to be interactive and follow a newsgroup-like format. Participants, also known as "members", add messages to the various Scratchings forums, giving their co-researchers and opportunity to discuss their discoveries.

Anybody can read a Scratchings forum, but only members of the "Illinois Chickscope '98" (ILCS) project can post directly to the forum. Eventually the forums will be opened for posting to the rest of the world.

Available Forums

The ILCS Chicken Scratchings

The main scratchings site for the ILCS participants. Feel free to share your findings, your successes and failures here! Also, if you have a question that you feel should be shared among your peers, this is a good place to do it.

The Chickscope Development Forum

The development forum is designed as another mechanism for you to post questions, bug reports, and complaints about the Chickscope website. Particularly welcomed are comments concerning dead hyperlinks, incorrect navigation buttons, spelling errors and typos, and problems with the service in general. If you have a question about embryology or some other concept of scientific nature, we suggest using the ILCS Chicken Scratchings above.

The Chicken Scratchings Test Forum

If you have never used Scratchings before here is where you should start. This is an unmoderated, free-for-all forum. You can post anything you want in this forum, just to get a feel for how it all works.