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    If it is NOT Marek's...what else could it be?

    The chick has been eating and drinking on her own. The more I observe her, the less and less it looks like any form of paralysis because she can move everything and seems to have feeling throughout. Her coordination and balance is off however, and that seems to be getting worse. I hate to...
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    If it is NOT Marek's...what else could it be?

    No, the toes are not curled. The best way I know to describe what she is doing, is imagine trying to put a cat into a bucket of water. The cat sticks its feet out and pushes off on the bucket. This chick is basically doing the same thing. When I try to set her upright, she pushes against the...
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    Greetings from the farm!

    I'm new to this forum, but not to chickens. I've been around them off an on most of my life, and I have had my own flock for about 6 years now. Currently have have a mixed flock of 2 ameraucanas, 2 easter eggers, a gold star, a SL wyandotte, a cochin cross, and an ameraucana roo. I also have...
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    If it is NOT Marek's...what else could it be?

    I have several 3 week old chicks (various breeds). They were not vaccinated. This morning, I found one of them with 1 leg apparently paralyzed. It lays on its side with one leg under it, seemingly normal, but the other leg is straight out (down, not forward or backward). It can move it, and...
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