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Looking at the info on feather cysts, this could be what it was. They are all coming out of a horrible molt, and it's possible this one had problems with the feathers coming thru.
 
dawg53 said:
It could possibly be the Cutaneous form of Marek's disease. Here's a link, scroll slowly down to Marek's disease.
http://www.fao-ectad-gaborone.org/en/IMG/pdf/Picture_Book.pdf
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I have never seen the skin form of it before, but I have to agree with Dawg.
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The signs and symptoms of Marek’s Disease vary depending on the form of disease present.
[FONT=Times New Roman,Times New Roman][FONT=Times New Roman,Times New Roman]Cutaneous form: [/FONT][/FONT]Enlarged reddened feather follicles and white bumps on the skin that form
brown crusty scabs.
 
OK, after looking at that picture I totally agree that it died of Marek's. We've never had a chicken die of this before, AFAIK, in the 5 years my son has been doing this. From what I'm seeing the virus lives pretty much everywhere and this may have been a chicken that we hatched here and wouldn't have got the vaccine.

We'll check the other chickens but no one else seems sick. Will their eggs be OK to eat? Will we have to cull the whole flock? Most of these came vaccinated (or were supposed to be vaccinated) but some are chicks we hatched a couple of years ago that weren't vaccinated.
 
bearz said:
OK, after looking at that picture I totally agree that it died of Marek's. We've never had a chicken die of this before, AFAIK, in the 5 years my son has been doing this. From what I'm seeing the virus lives pretty much everywhere and this may have been a chicken that we hatched here and wouldn't have got the vaccine.

We'll check the other chickens but no one else seems sick. Will their eggs be OK to eat? Will we have to cull the whole flock? Most of these came vaccinated (or were supposed to be vaccinated) but some are chicks we hatched a couple of years ago that weren't vaccinated.
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The eggs are fine, we can't get chicken Marek's and it isn't passed through the egg anyways. As for you unvaccinated birds, I don't know. I'm sorry to say it would be a waiting game now. I assume that all of the birds were together? If the remaining birds have built up a resistance to the form of Marek's you have there, they may be okay. Key words are may be.

To cull the flock is a personal choice you'll have to make. I haven't culled mine, but do cull birds that are suffering or have reached the point of no return. If most are vaccinated for Marek's and it doesn't mutate, they should be fine. The ones not vaccinated will have to be watched for symptoms. Right now it's all you can do short of culling and waiting to start over.

I also wanted to add I am truly sorry this happened to you and yours.
 
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I thought the same as well and just had the question about this as the lesions do look somewhat the same. Either way, neither of them are a good thing to have in your flock.
 

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