Marek's vs. perosis - please help

I could not have said this any better. I'm a misty reading all this, that must have been so hard. :(
I'm SO sorry for your loss.:hugs
Please know we are here regardless.
I'm hoping for the best outcome,  but I agree that it's not the end of the world if it turns out to be Mareks.

Thank you on behalf of all of us for getting her tested, as hard as that must of been.
Every bit of information one owner finds out and shares helps everyone here.

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Thank you everyone. What I don't get is why there isn't a treatment for it since it's been around for so long. We have Valtrex for humans and Lysine for cats. Even antivirals for HIV. Results should be in by next week and I will post them.
 
Thank you everyone. What I don't get is why there isn't a treatment for it since it's been around for so long. We have Valtrex for humans and Lysine for cats. Even antivirals for HIV. Results should be in by next week and I will post them.
Thanks for posting -- (in advance)

Why no cure for Marek's?

  • One reason is that chickens were only cheap livestock, until the BYC movement brought them closer to more people -- and they became pets. -- No bottom-ine driven entity cares for the life of a chicken. Most vets here in the USA don't even treat chickens - and chicken owners in general don't want to pay a lot of chicken care at the vet's. Most folks don't want to pay the $80.00 for a necropsy - And they are only available to insure that any disease that would affect agricultural chickens - and spreads quickly -- like maybe newcastles? -- would be caught and contained. Remember the Avian Influenza strain last year (or was it year before) where even private flocks were destroyed - along with a lot of commercial operations chickens?

  • In the profit-driven world -- it is more cost-effective to let commercial chickens die, or euthanize - sanitize, collect the insurance, and replace them with zillions of new chicks -- than to care for a sick chicken.

  • Huge demands are put on commercial chicken producers for profit-margin, and by getting our own eggs from our own backyards, we are adding to that pressure on their bottom line.

  • Cost of developing a cure would be astronomical and they wouldn't get their money back, plus a chicken that had recovered from Marek's may not lay quite as many eggs as a chicken who had never been sick. Therefore their feed conversion ratio would go down, and they don't want that.
  • Big business does drive the chicken industry for the most part - and our paltry populations don't compete.

o.k. -- knowing it is just my opinions based on some viewpoints based on facts that I know, but many people think our devotion to chickens (individually) is purely insane....just sayin' . Sorry if it sounds a bit cynical -- I'm old enough to have lived in the era before the pursuit of wealth was quite so pervasive. I remember in my business career, when I would do a cost/benefit analysis for a project, and if the benefit didn't kind of vastly exceed what the current interest rate was in the bank (some how 6% compounded annually sticks in my mind ) then the project couldn't be funded......period.
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