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    Rookie backyard chicken keeper...with Marek's

    I am already done with chicken keeping. I enjoy my chickens. I think this is a great hobby and I would have loved to keep it up for years. Marek's changed that. Until now, I had not seen any symptoms in other flocks, but that has changed. I have two Bielefelder pullets going on 23 weeks that...
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    Rookie backyard chicken keeper...with Marek's

    Only 2 are left out of the 8 in this flock. I thought the cockerel was going to make it through. He did not. He died earlier today. He was fine, then the eyes went, and then paralysis... I am left with a blind lame pullet and another who has had some weird skin disease for months now. I am...
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    Rookie backyard chicken keeper...with Marek's

    This has been my Marek's journey so far: I started out with 8 Speckled Sussex chicks I hatched. One pullet (my avatar) died simply because she stopped eating. The second pullet died more suddenly but with little outward symptoms. I was not able to get the first to the state lab but the 2nd...
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    Rookie backyard chicken keeper...with Marek's

    I had to cull my first chicken today. He had been down for some time now, not paralysis in the way I've seen it described, but still could never stand on his own. He could move his legs and wings, but he just never did it. Then his eyes started changing and I knew I would soon have to...
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    Foods that even sick chickens find irresistible?

    She had some lingering diarrhea yesterday but seemed clean today. However, the heat was pretty high for this time of year, 91F. They have the 2nd coolest run and they get a 1/2 day of free ranging, which she is doing fine at. I'm going to start all of my flocks on preventative doses of Chinese...
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    Chick with diarrhea, poor balance, and screaming

    Yes, that is why I said to keep all other recommendations in mind.
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    Chick with diarrhea, poor balance, and screaming

    Do you have a way to take the temp at chick level? While that heat lamp is far away, those solid walls on the tote could be trapping heat and what you think is diarrhea could be just watery poop from drinking alot of water, which they will do if it is too hot. While keeping the above suggestions...
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    Foods that even sick chickens find irresistible?

    Update: she is back to being an active member of her flock and she's learned to live with her saddle. She still has diarrhea though, and she is the only one in the flock with it. She is eating both the all flock feed and the little bit of scratch I throw their way to get them back into their...
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    Foods that even sick chickens find irresistible?

    I actually did feed her that, but not her own ;). She did drink up most of it, but it was almost a force feed thing on the first day or so of her treatment.
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    Foods that even sick chickens find irresistible?

    She is out of isolation today and wearing a chicken saddle because she's still not as quick to move as she was before she started feeling down. She hates it but she'll have to get used to it for now. She is free ranging well, eating grass and leaves and bugs.
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    Foods that even sick chickens find irresistible?

    Tonight she actually moved up to the top roost quickly. As of right now she seems much better.
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    Foods that even sick chickens find irresistible?

    Same again last night, and I can report that she had normal (not green) looking droppings! I know they were hers because she did not move from where I set her on the roost last night. She will still be going back to isolation until she is moving like the others.
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    Foods that even sick chickens find irresistible?

    I let he back onto the roost last night because she seemed eager to be with her flock. I was hoping she would do OK, and she slept all night where I put her. I was concerned because of the way she had been sleeping without the roost with her head drooped far but she was fine this morning. I put...
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    Foods that even sick chickens find irresistible?

    Mixed the started medications with oats. As I expected, she ate all of them.
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    Someone laid an egg!

    I think my second Welsummer started laying today. I recall the first egg one of my CCLs laid was bigger than her flock mates, and it ended up being a double yolker. Well today one of the Welsummers was screaming her head off and I came in later to find a massive egg with no taper. I'm betting...
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