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  1. Haunted55

    Not an Emergency...Marek's in the Flock

    I've never done the Rangers myself. I have and do the meaties and never bother to vaccinate them. I don't know that I'd bother with the vaccination myself. The worst that could happen is you have some who do become symptomatic. Just mean an early culling. Yes, you can eat the birds even if...
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    Bumblefoot, New Ideas on Treatment with pictures

    While you are at it, would you put up a picture of the sore? It matters.
  3. Haunted55

    Bumblefoot, New Ideas on Treatment with pictures

    I bought mine at Wally World [WalMart], I don't think it matters where you get it, just use it.
  4. Haunted55

    Misshaped Pupil- Mareks???

    Proud Army Wife I really do understand your fear, oh yeah do I ever. Still, if you are giving your birds a Super B Complex per gallon of water, making sure the food is free from mold and not on a recall, you have done just about all you can. You could try re vaccination with the Turkey Marek's...
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    Misshaped Pupil- Mareks???

    The color of the eye looks to be the same as her good eye so not sure it's Marek's. In my own case, when the ocular changes started it was rapid and you knew. Their gait would be off, they would stand and sway sometimes. Sometimes they would even walk in a tight circle. Like I said, you just...
  6. Haunted55

    Not an Emergency...Marek's in the Flock

    Nambroth, I was reading something last year about a man who was trying to make a 'hair spray' for his infected birds from potato starch. His idea was that if the feathers could be stiffened, like women used to wear their hair, there would be a lot less sheds being put into the air. Especially...
  7. Haunted55

    Not an Emergency...Marek's in the Flock

    Actually Seminole, from what I see here, it doesn't matter if they are exposed or not. I wasn't trying to immunize babies from the disease. That here is impossible. What is happening is birds that I know are infected and not just exposed, are actually living normal lives. Paralysis and or...
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    Not an Emergency...Marek's in the Flock

    Kim, I think it has to do with the constant exposure to the Turkey Marek's. As we all know, this is the most used vaccine out there for home and hatchery alike. Now some of the hatcheries have 3 or more they are giving, but we as home raisers of poultry cannot get the others. Just the plain...
  9. Haunted55

    Not an Emergency...Marek's in the Flock

    Define nicer....Turkeys are Turkeys. If they are shown that they are a flock animal when they are young, they do alright. I do not put up with any crap from my Turkeys. I don't care how big they get or how puffed up the Toms think they are. Simply grab them by the back of their neck and hold...
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    Not an Emergency...Marek's in the Flock

    Put it in their water and give in a syringe. I would do 1/8 tsp. per shot. Maybe 3 times a day. Kathy, have your Turkeys been exposed to wild Turkeys? Mine have been. I know they have Turkey Marek's. Remember the thread from last year with the pictures i posted of the lumps and stuff...
  11. Haunted55

    Not an Emergency...Marek's in the Flock

    I haven't posted in a while, but let me pass something on that I have learned the hard way. I started this thread a long time ago it seems, but I will tell you something, it's a good thing. I have lost a lot of my babies to this miserable disease and have fought and sought to find a way to...
  12. Haunted55

    Not an Emergency...Marek's in the Flock

    Kathy, this is what I saw here. I didn't have much with paralysis when their eyes went funky, just a slight stumble in their gait. This would then turn more grey and then the pupil would become misshapened. This was a death knell for mine. Once the changes started, the decline was very...
  13. Haunted55

    Not an Emergency...Marek's in the Flock

    For me, ocular means bye-bye. I have never had one survive it.
  14. Haunted55

    Not an Emergency...Marek's in the Flock

    Good to see you got here GQ! No, I have observed similar things in my birds as well. I have found there really aren't any hard and fast rules with this crap. Well there are, but not when they are first starting with it. Mine had the problems with the cocci, constantly, but the 'hunching' and...
  15. Haunted55

    Not an Emergency...Marek's in the Flock

    It's very okay to post here. I would suggest you stop the poly and switch to a human Super B Complex vitamin, crushed and added to a gallon of water. You can keep it in your fridge for 24 hrs. if you don't need all of it at once. Only water source available to the bird for a week to 10 days...
  16. Haunted55

    Pekin male not walking/sick?

    thanks Holly, but to the question....just give them some charcoal. Get the capsules at your pharmacy or Wal-Mart and mix the contents with water and get it into them. As little water as possible. I normally just add enough to make a slurry I can get into them with a syringe. If they have...
  17. Haunted55

    Bumblefoot, New Ideas on Treatment with pictures

    Luck...but if you do this, you won't need it. Just remember, if the leg feels warm get the bird onto an antibiotic right away. Staph is a really nasty infection and if it gets to the bones, it's almost impossible to get rid of.
  18. Haunted55

    NEED HELP!!! Growths or lumps on duck's leg and wing.

    One thing I would add to the above is clear iodine. Let the baby swim for a bit in some warm water and then dry the spot and paint a bit of the clear iodine onto the sore. I had a duckling who would use one of the others as a 'wubbie' and would constantly nibble on the other when it was time...
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    Bumblefoot, New Ideas on Treatment with pictures

    I didn't, I just used the colorless iodine.
  20. Haunted55

    New to raising ducks!

    Looking at the pictures again....did these bumbles just develop or were they there when you got them? Have you always used the shavings? Just trying to figure things out. These guys are babies and usually you don't see it with them. Suggestion, if you are able, see if you can find a smaller...
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