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I'm very sad to say that I lost my favorite 'roo, Peep, and I'm 99.9% sure it was Marek's. As a chick (he was born in June) he had a paralyzed leg. I took him to the vet, and the leg was fine. It got better on its own. He grew into a gorgeous roo! But when I went out to close them up the other...

I kept her in a dog kennel overnight, then gave her some food and water this morning and left her in the kennel. I came home at lunch and checked on her, and there were normal poo's in the kennel. I decided to go ahead and let her out. I figured the horse was already out of the barn, so there...

I've seen various threads (here and elsewhere) and Extension websites that indicate that the disease is highly contagious, and recommend culling. However, I'd be kidding myself to think that my other birds have not already been exposed, so I'm not sure that culling her would make any difference...

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Let me preface by saying I'm a bit of a newbie with this. I just started raising chickens last summer.... I noticed tonight that one of my chicken's had two different colored eyes. This chicken is also looking quite ratty, but I attributed that to moulting. Upon googling I found that Marek's...

A short time-lapse of the actual hatch. I took video of the entire process, but I need to edit them together.

Yay - the second chick has hatched! No goo on this one. The first chick's goo string has shortened up considerably, but I'll have to watch and make sure the new peep doesn't try to pull it. I can't wait to see the video!

Oh how exciting! One of the other eggs has pipped. I'm putting my phone camera on time lapse, and will see if I can record any of it. I tried it with one of the other hatches, but that hatch wound up dragging out over night. The one this morning when from pip to chick quite quickly, so perhaps...

Thank you for the replies. My instinct told me to leave it alone, so I have. This is just my 5th chick to hatch in the incubator, and the others haven't had any goo, so I didn't have to worry about it. I'll keep an eye on the little doob :) She's very vocal, and she's getting around ok, so...

This chick hatched this morning. It seems to have goo stuck to it's posterior. I don't want to open the incubator unless I have to, as I have other eggs in there. Can anyone tell me from this pic if this is something I need to intervene with, or just leave it alone? The chick seems to be robust.

Well, the new chick is in with the older chicks, and so far so good. I'll keep an eye on them through the evening to make sure they don't start picking on her, but for now they are doing fine.

The new peep is here! I finally had to moisten the membrane a bit for her to make it the rest of the way out. I didn't know when the eggs were going to hatch, so the humidity was a little low when she started her hatch. I'll hold her in the incubator overnight, and then move her to more...

I had a hen that was sitting on 7 eggs, but I knew that some of those eggs had been laid after she started sitting, so I knew it would be a staggered hatch. After she hatched the first two chicks and left the nest, I put the rest of the eggs in my incubator. I wasn't sure the age of the eggs, so...

Definitely 2 roos and a hen. One roo is learning to crow

No offense taken. I have a very motley crew (in fact, that is their nickname). The six hens I got are a very mixed bunch. Once I can sit down and get some decent pictures of them, I'll post them and see if I can figure out what they are. But I'm pretty sure they are mostly (if not all) mutts...

Well, even though my babies are mutts, they are good-looking mutts :) I believe one of my other hens that I inherited is at least part Ameraucana. Her name is Raggedy Ann. She's still very camera shy, but you can see her puffy cheeks, even from the back.

Yes, they had a widow's peak on their head. When I did an image search on chicks, they looked like ones that were identified as Ameraucana. But maybe the pic I found on the net was mis-identified. Here's my chick: And here's the pic I found on the net:

When they were chicks they looked a lot like an Ameracauna chick - You can just barely seeing one peek out from under Mom:

These chicks were part of a brood that the neighbor's chicken hatched in my shed. The neighbor doesn't know what breed they are, because she inherited her flock from another neighbor. I'm just trying to figure out what breed they are:

The ladies are doing good. They are getting their feathers back, and don't look so ratty. It doesn't appear they had mites or anything, they just had the heck pecked out of them. They have also started to lay. What a noisy bunch they are when one of the girls is settling in to lay an egg! I...