Recent content by mes06a

I'm afraid that the chick has died. I would still really appreciate any and all help, observations, suggestions, etc in the interest of keeping the other nineteen in good health. I have not yet seen any problems in the rest of the group. It might also be noteworthy that I did not see any...

Thank you so much for the help! I may have misread/misunderstood but it seems that Marek's disease has an incubation period of 3-25 weeks. If that is true, would the manifestation of any symptoms at the age of one week actually preclude Marek's disease as a possible diagnosis?

I apologize for the hasty nature of this post. I have twenty cornish crosses/slow white broilers. They are one week old. This morning I noticed that one of them appeared to be a bit smaller than the others. I planned to monitor that chick in particular. By noon, this chick seemed a bit...

Thank you all for the support in my struggle with Richard. Although I was quite skeptical of the notion that our hens would stop laying if I cull him, I am relieved to hear that that is not accurate. ....I feel like that would be Richard's way of getting back at me from beyond the crockpot.

Please accept my sincerest apologies for the title. My wonderful wife and I have a less than wonderful Dominique cockerel, Richard. Now, I realize that it is indeed less than wonderful of me to tell you, so directly, that ol' Rick is less than wonderful. Nevertheless, he is quite unpleasant...