HELP don’t know what’s wrong with chicken!!!

[Silkies rule Forever]

I have a chicken that walked side to side for a year and i thought she was fine, well I checked on her the other day and she was walking on her whole entire legs And she is always shaking on her neck she has been weird for a year but now she is WAY worse!!!!!She eats and drinks normal but has a hard time getting to the food and water!!! PLZ help!!!

 

[Silkies rule Forever]

She can’t flap her wings or fly

 

[Lauren Kim]

I believe she has Marek’s disease.

 

[Lauren Kim]

I found a quote from this article:
“Marek's disease is a Herpes virus infection of chickens, and rarely turkeys in close association with chickens, seen worldwide. From the 1980s and 1990s highly virulent strains have become a problem in North America and Europe.

The disease has various manifestations: a) Neurological - Acute infiltration of the CNS and nerves resulting in 'floppy broiler syndrome' and transient paralysis, as well as more long-standing paralysis of legs or wings and eye lesions; b) Visceral - Tumours in heart, ovary, tests, muscles, lungs; c) Cutaneous - Tumours of feather follicles.

Morbidity is 10-50% and mortality up to 100%. Mortality in an affected flock typically continues at a moderate or high rate for quite a few weeks. In 'late' Marek's the mortality can extend to 40 weeks of age. Affected birds are more susceptible to other diseases, both parasitic and bacterial.

The route of infection is usually respiratory and the disease is highly contagious being spread by infective feather-follicle dander, fomites, etc. Infected birds remain viraemic for life. Vertical transmission is not considered to be important.

The virus survives at ambient temperature for a long time (65 weeks) when cell associated and is resistant to some disinfectants (quaternary ammonium and phenol). It is inactivated rapidly when frozen and thawed.

Signs

• Paralysis of legs, wings and neck.
• Loss of weight.
• Grey iris or irregular pupil.
• Vision impairment.
• Skin around feather follicles raised and roughened.

Post-mortem lesions

• Grey-white foci of neoplastic tissue in liver, spleen, kidney, lung, gonads, heart, and skeletal muscle.
• Thickening of nerve trunks and loss of striation.
• Microscopically - lymphoid infiltration is polymorphic.

Diagnosis
History, clinical signs, distribution of lesions, age affected, histopathology.
Differentiate from Lymphoid leukosis, botulism, deficiency of thiamine, deficiency of Ca/Phosphorus/Vitamin D, especially at the start of lay.

Treatment
None.

Prevention
Hygiene, all-in/all-out production, resistant strains, vaccination generally with 1500 PFU of HVT at day old (but increasingly by in-ovo application at transfer), association with other strains (SB1 Sero-type 2) and Rispen's.

It is common practice to use combinations of the different vaccine types in an effort to broaden the protection achieved. Genetics can help by increasing the frequency of the B21 gene that confers increased resistance to Marek's disease challenge.”


Hope this helped!

 

[Silkies rule Forever]

Yes it helped but it doesn’t seem as if she paralyzed she holds up her wings better than any one else

 

[Silkies rule Forever]

Is it contagious?????

 

[Silkies rule Forever]

She is with my show birds

 

[Silkies rule Forever]

 

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There is two pics of her

 

[Silkies rule Forever]

Sometimes she runs around