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I just saw this update--how is she doing?

Well they sent the final report and I guess I'll have to pay somebody else to interpret it. The English version seems to be that she was very sick, and not going to get better. I've attached the relevant portions of the report in case anybody can understand it. The report doesn't mention Marek's...

They said 7-10 business days, and tomorrow is the tenth business day, so...I'm waiting.

Mine died a week ago on Sunday, unfortunately. I'm still waiting on results from the necropsy so I'll at least know what it was. Her legs never started working again, but she seemed like she was a bit stronger and feistier, and kept trying to push up on the one semi-working leg, and I thought...

Update for anyone interested: She's still here and doing better overall. Her legs are still paralyzed, the right one more so than the left. She can still move the left, although she can't stand on it. The right is completely limp. There doesn't seem to be any pain, so I don't think it's injured...

Nope. It's been those twelve since chicks. Actually it was a batch of 25 chicks but the extra pullets and an accidental rooster went to live on a relative's farm. But no other chickens have come in, ever.

Update: I decided to treat her for egg binding even though I couldn't feel an egg so I gave her a warm bath with epsom salts; she seemed to like it and kind of relaxed and went into a trance state. I also put warm compresses on the closed eye in case it was stuck shut; she seemed to appreciate...

Interesting; I can see how it would be a stroke although I don't think she fell off the roost based on where she was.

I hope you're right. I'm afraid she's a goner regardless but I don't want to watch the others die. They're acting fine right now.

Central KY--we're having a cool fall, and it's 60-70's in the day and 50s at night--also very dry and droughty for the past couple of months.

Update: She 's still alive but very sick. She's sitting fluffed up in the nest box and can still move her wings but wants to droop her head. I'm not sure if it's paralysis or just being sick. Still has the one eye squeezed shut but the open one in normal. She ate some hot mash for me, but didn't...

Does anybody have experience with Marek's in older birds? Do they get the classic leg paralysis/splits? I have 12 Rhode Island Reds who will be 3 in April and they have been absolutely great--healthy and beautiful up to this point. I've been so careful and obsessed with them and I feel like I...