Dr. Reddy is awesome, he is who I took my birds to. Took me 2 1/2 hours to get there. He told me the same things he told you. I believe and trust what he told me, because he has been dealing with this virus for DECADES.
Someone asked me if I had documentation to support what I was told. I...
I can't think of any trigger for the silkie cross, nor the pullet. Nothing had changed for them. Nothing.
The serama cockerel, however, began showing symptoms when his "wife" died...in fact, almost immediately following her death. His first symptom was that he stopped crowing. The rest of the...
Nope, just the statement from the avian state vet...and like I said in my post, he said they don't shed LIVE virus. Don't know if that means they shed dead virus or whatever, he just said not live virus
With 292 pages, I just do not have time to read every post on this thread, so if the information I share is redundant to others' posts, I apologize. This is my story which includes non-typical symptoms of Marek's Disease
A week ago this past Friday I drove 2 1/2 hours to take three chickens to...
Although the statement "Exposure is after hatch" is correct, as well as it's not carried IN the eggs...but the skin cells can be ON the eggs you hatch, therefore exposing newborn chicks to the virus.