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I just wanted to update. We hatched about 40 chicks this year, mostly eggs from other people, and had no symptoms of anything. The single chick that the broody hatched is a healthy laying hen now. The problems that I had last year that made me suspicious were with a single batch of chicks that...

Thanks for sharing your experience. I'm so sorry you had to go through that will 3 clutches of chicks. I keep wanting to believe that I don't have Marek's in my birds. The chick is still healthy at almost 10 weeks old. There are 8 more eggs in the incubator that will be hatched in a week and...

Thanks again. I'm very glad to hear that you had such a good survival rate in your chicks in only 3 years. This is encouraging. :) I had 3 first-time broodies in the last couple of months, but 2 of them were terrible at it and didn't hatch any eggs. One of them hatched a single chick, because...

Thanks for your reply. I told the guy about my issues and he said that he wants the eggs anyway, but I will take precautions with the eggs and we are going to meet in a parking lot instead of his house so that my shoes and car don't bring anything to his house. He's also planning to keep the...

I'm going to try to get my birds tested. I finally located a pathology lab in my province. Some young chickens that I got at a local sale had some Marek's like symptoms last fall and I culled them (they couldn't walk). Some of my other birds died too, one was wasting, but nothing has happened...