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    Lethargic 3 week old RIR

    Thanks to everyone for their ideas and support provided to us through this message thread. Unfortunately this bird finally succumbed to whatever it was that was ailing it and passed away. We continued to provide multiple times daily physical therapy in the form of leg massages and leg...
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    Lethargic 3 week old RIR

    Thank you for this suggestion!! I would never have thought of this, but between the three of us, we should be able to take turns doing PT on this bird. I will report back to this thread in a few days with an update on how this is working. It is certainly worth a try, plus this bird is used to...
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    Lethargic 3 week old RIR

    In case anyone is interested I thought I would post an update for this thread on the current status of the situation. I had the fecal sample tested for both bacteriological and parasitic pathogens. Both tests came up negative which ruled out coccidia. The referring vet was pretty surprised by...
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    Lethargic 3 week old RIR

    Thanks for the vaccination clarification. Fortunately, we are not far from Virginia Tech and I just took a fecal sample over to their Animal Sciences lab at the Vet School. They hope to run the test tomorrow, so hopefully I can find out pretty soon what diagnosis they might come up with and...
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    Lethargic 3 week old RIR

    Thanks for your reply, Wes. I went back and checked the shipping order from the hatchery and realized that I left out the fact that our chicks were not only vaccinated for Marek's, but also for coccidiosis. I think that is why they required us to use non-medicated feed, otherwise it would...
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    Lethargic 3 week old RIR

    For the last two days, one of our 3 week old RIR cockerels has been extremely lethargic. He is one of 25 RIR chicks purchased from McMurray. All were vaccinated for Marek’s and are being fed non-medicated starter/grower crumbles at the instruction of the hatchery. We lost one chick on the...
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