Well, she just died.
I kinda expected it based on how she looked before I left her in the evening.. I guess I'll never have a favorite hen again, it is just so unfair to loose exactly those. My only GCM? And she was SOOO beatiful! The nicest GCM color I can imagine!
Due to her very fast deterioration I started to look at all possibilities, Marek's was last.. Looking at the pictures of chicks which have/had Marek's , I am rather convinced she died of Marek's.
She had a last light green stool, too, not bloody stool like they should have in Newcastle.
But how can a vaccinated chick die of Marek's in just 2 days??
So sorry for your loss. Most likely it was not Marek's at that age. They generally start to develop symptoms more like the 4 month and up stage. The Marek's vaccine does not keep them from getting the illness, it just reduces the symptoms and not even that in all vaccinate chicks. There are 2 different vaccine types ad they have different effectiveness rtes. One is only available to hatcheries from what I understand. Wry neck is fairly common in young chicks and usually a vitamin thing. Sometimes they did not develop properly in the egg, sometimes it is the result of the health of the hen before the egg was even laid (not that the hen would have had wry neck and passed it on, but if her health was not optimal she may not have had the needed "ingredients" to add to the egg at the time it was forming). Sometimes you just never know what happened. The other chicks from the same hatch may all be just fine and for some reason only that one had issues. Just rest in the knowledge that you did everything you could to help it.
