My chicken had a high fever and the vet gave me an antibiotic but she is just lying around and it ha
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Mereks will usually kill a bird within 48 hours of symptoms, and declines extremely quickly at onset. Keep supporting her with electrolytes. My hen recently got over a GI illness, and even when she wouldn't eat anything else, she loved oatmeal. A brand called Open Nature has a vanilla and almond instant oatmeal, and my hen would eat almost a whole pack. I mixed it with a little bit of her food to make sure she was getting all the nutrients she needed. I added a little bit of milk for extra calcium. Probiotics are great. Your vet should have a powder you can sprinkle on her food, or you can feed plain Greek yogurt, not too much! A spoonful will do! I would continue to monitor and support all you can. Sometimes chickens make slow progress in recovery. If she's made it this long, it's a good sign. Have you tested for any parasites?
What? I mean this in a nice way, but where did you hear that? Got one right now that started limping 12 weeks ago, progressed to total paralysis, was like that for many weeks and is now able to walk again. Mine has the ocular form, so I'm pretty sure she also has the neural form.
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I was concerned about MD in a bird of mine. I took her to the vet and asked about it, and she said the MD will literally start dropping birds. You'll notice something is off one day and the next they're gone. She said true MD is usually quick, and that because it is extremely contagious (airborne), the likelihood that just one bird become infected and show symptoms is small. Not to say there haven't been cases like yours in which the bird recovers, they just aren't particularly common. There are other degenerative diseases, bacterial, and viral infections that are possible, she said, but that aren't very common in poultry. Have you had your bird tested for MD?
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Several of us here have confirmed Marek's (confirmed by necropsies), and I think most will say that the usual scenario is that affected birds *don't* usually die in 48 hours of first symptoms... Most will slowly waste away, either from the visceral form, or from paralysis and not being able to eat/drink.
When your bird died, was it fat and healthy looking? Or had it lost weigh?
Another Marek's misinformation is that only young birds get it, but that is not true.
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Sally, my chicken has recovered and doing great. I think she must have had a soft tissue injury. She is eating and walking like nothing ever happened. The problem I have now is that one of my hens is wanting to beat her up some.
I have been keeping her separate where she is around the others but I have a fence between them. I let her out with all the other hens for a bit each day but this one white hen won't leave her alone. Any ideas of what I can do to get her accepted back in by all of the girls?
Thanks, Martha
I have been keeping her separate where she is around the others but I have a fence between them. I let her out with all the other hens for a bit each day but this one white hen won't leave her alone. Any ideas of what I can do to get her accepted back in by all of the girls?
Thanks, Martha
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