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I will add this...Marek's is an insidious attacker. The chicken's body doesn't recognize what it is allowing into itself as Marek's acts like a normal cell when it comes into a host. This is why, I have always said it could be a good thing...a very good thing, to vaccinate your birds even...

The vaccine will have an effect, but at 5 years, I agree, he doesn't need to be vaccinated, as he has already been exposed to Marek's. The only time I would even think of vaccinating a bird this age is if you knew for certain that the strain of Marek's was a mutated one, that he may not have...

The old saying about leading a thristy horse to water, but you can't make him drink.... Yes it is possible for a chick from a hatchery to come to you with Marek's. There are a lot of ways they could come in contact with it and if someone actually thinks about the journey they make to get to...

One of the biggest reasons that the Marek's vaccine doesn't take with some chicks is because of resistance passed on by it's mother. This temporary immunity can last for several weeks to a couple of months from all I've read and been told. Now this resistance is different from what Seminole and...

What I was told is if you only extracted the amount you needed from each bottle, nothing more, and kept the rest unmixed, you could keep it until the expiration date on the bottle or package. If the vaccine you have doesn't have this i would be calling and finding out what the dates are even if...

Just heard about this on Monday. I am looking into this.

It's not the marek's that's that expensive, it's the one for MG. I am leaving nothing to chance from now on. Even though I didn't have a problem with that or any of the other 'bad boys' I am not taking anything for granted ever again. Anyone ever see a pure white ameraucana? I had one hatch...

No Leadwolf, I actually agree with you. I will buy a new bottle for each hatch as well. All I was trying to do was pass along what I had been told for those who worry about the cost. Until you have lived this horror, you really have no clue about the devastation $16.00 can ward off.

Unfortunately Leadwolf, I was unable to find the magazine after you told me about it. I did talk to some people at Pfizer and they also agree with the mutations taking place. This is why it is so darned important to immunize your birds!!! I just cannot say this enough. If you haven't walked...

Let me chime in here....I am facing an order for vaccines [any I can find], for my hatching chicks, with a price tag of $188.24. I lost 60 birds this year to Marek's and it will never happen again. 24 in one day alone. Sound like fun? 45 of these birds that died were vaccinated at the...