dosage for dimetridazole?

He's not good. The vet(s) have said that all I am doing is "making him comfortable" and that we will never know what the pathogen is until necropsy. So, the next time you ask how he is, his body will prob be on its way to necropsy lab.

So just in case anyone was wondering, @casportpony, this turkey hung on for three months and then died the day after a vet visit around April 7th I think. I sent his body to the lab and the necropsy results showed it was Marek's disease -- not blackhead disease, not cancer, andd not any of the other things that were hypothesized. So I guess that's pretty horrible because who knew that chickens could give turkeys Marek's when all we ever hear about is chickens givng turkeys blackhead disease?

Marek's was not really even on my radar screen until the very end when told multiple people that, if I didn't know any better I would say this was Marek's disease.

The random, seemingly unrelated symptoms, respiratory symptoms, fungal infection, the transient paralysis, the horrible digestion --- all of these things mirror exactly my experience with mareks disease in chickens. Now I know that really every death here is going to end up being Marek's disease or cancer because that is all it has ever been and it is no different for my poor turkeys than it is for my poor chickens. Only for the turkey it was slightly more torturous because his illness drag on for a full three months and he developed horrible pressure sores that could not be abated no matter what kind of foam or cushiony bedding I bought for him.. it is also extra horrible because for about a week he was doing great and I thought for sure he had recovered. He was eating, he was strutting around, he was interacting with me and the other birds, and everything was great and then suddenly everything regressed overnight. There is really nothing worse than false hope.