mareks

  1. MaeIstrom

    What is your strategy for adding new birds and risk management for Mareks disease

    This query mainly relates to Mareks disease and how important vaccinations are to breeders/buyers of poultry. In my city monitoring poultry adverts it appears that large hatcheries that vaccinate are selling as many birds as they can hatch and breeders who don't are struggling to sell stock and...
  2. H

    what happened

    I wrote before about receiving young birds with wry neck or swollen hocks. I believed it was vit deficiency as person we got them from used own feed, barley mixed with lentils. We are very sad after just losing the barred rock. she got to be almost a year old. her neck was crooked and she had...
  3. Clappmeg

    Sick Chickens, How Contagious?

    I recently picked up 3 Silkies from a local farm that was downsizing. She was practically giving them away and they're very difficult to find in my area. I've kept them separate from my small flock in that: - My chicken coop is built into my garage. The bottom half is enclosed by plywood but the...
  4. S

    Listless Chicken with Lolling Head - Need Antibiotic Options! Please Help!

    We had five chicks that were about three months old. When we moved them outdoors, one of them started dramatically tilting its head to the side. We were worried that it was due to stress from being moved outdoors, so we took her back inside where she had been living before we moved her out. She...
  5. Squeak61

    EMERGENCY sudden lethargy

    One of my new birds was completely fine last night, completely normal, and this morning she is limp, unable to walk or stand, and pooping slightly bloody watery poop. This morning, she was laying face first, twitching, and couldn’t even lift her head. She can still move her legs and wings. All...
  6. Liv's chickens

    Mareks disease questions

    hello everyone! A couple months ago my one of my chickens became ill, and since then I’ve lost around 5 more, and I’m quite positive that Mareks was the cause. I have some guinea fowl who laid some eggs, and I hatched four babies from them. How dangerous is it to sell a couple keets to someone...
  7. King Corrin

    Urgent! sick hens!

    Okay so a few weeks ago I lost a young pullet to unusual symptoms. The bird acted lethargic, puffed itself up, closed its eyes, retracted it’s head inward, and eventually it couldn’t walk. It also would occasionally make strange noises unlike anything I’ve ever heard from a bird (sounded like a...
  8. G

    Does Marek’s disease affect geese?

    Read about the disease on chickens. Tried finding whether it can get onto geese but haven't found the answer yet. If it does, what should I do to prevent my geese from getting it?
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    • Forum: Geese
  9. finnleywren

    innovax-nd-ibd vaccine

    Hello, Does anyone know anything about the innovax-nd-ibd vaccine which covers Mareks, Newcastle, and Bursal? I've read about it online but cannot find it to buy. Here's the link: https://www.innovax-vaccines.com/innovax-vaccine-protection/innovax-nd-ibd/ Many thanks, Joyce
  10. HOTchick916

    chick vaccines

    I just rescued 4 feral chicks from their squalid living conditions in a ghetto neighborhood. They are the size of the 3 day old chicks I get from the local feed store, however they are starting to get feathers so I'm not sure how old they are. They are probably small for their age as they have...
  11. AltonaAcres

    HELP!!! Baby Chick Mystery!!

    Hi guys! It's the 3rd time I've posted question this week............sorry.......... Anyways, I had a question regarding our newest batch of chicks. So, we've had several cases of Mareks in our flock lately. I'd say we've had 3 chickens having symptoms, and then ending up being put down. (We...
  12. AltonaAcres

    Help Raising Turkeys

    Hey guys! Complex question here..........We ordered 4 meat turkeys which we hope to raise, show in 4-H, and hopefully sell at the junior market sale or eat for ourselves. Anyways, our chicken flock was recently diagnosed with Marek's. And, if you have Marek's, no showing for you! I know turkeys...
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    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Turkeys
  13. robbieg

    Sitting chicken???

    just picked up a silver laced Wyandotte. She’s about 14-16 weeks old and nice and healthy. I’ve started noticing today that she just keeps sitting. She will walk around (a little bit awkwardly) and then just sit down and eat. She still jumps onto twigs and branches and even onto her small...
  14. AltonaAcres

    I'm Torn

    Hey guys. I am leaving on a trip for 11 days in a week and a half. My neighbor and a family member will be caring for my chickens. Right now I have 5 separate pens of chickens, which means they would have to fill 5 feeders and 5 waterers daily, and let out tons of chickens separately. I was...
  15. S

    Coccidosis?

    For the last two weeks I have had a sick flock. The first bird I noticed looking sick appeared to be lethargic. Quarantined indoors, the next day she started to act paralyzed and display splayed leg. Second bird got sick, quarantined separately indoors- she had same symptoms but also wry neck...
  16. diamondsilkies

    Marek's Vaccinations?

    (I really wasn't sure what forum to post this under, so if you see a better place for it, please let me know!) Over the summer, I had an outbreak of Marek's and lost quite a few birds, mostly young silkie pullets. All the chickens I have now lived through it and showed no symptoms of it at any...
  17. Mrs Ugh

    2 Pullets dead quickly, remaining 2 are thin

    I am lost! How can I save my pullets? I posted a couple of weeks ago that I found one pullet very thin and wobbly . She couldn't really stand. I had already treated all with Corid since I had seen some strange pink droppings. I isolated her right away We tried to get her to eat and gave her...
  18. animalyodelers

    Chicken newbie- urgent- mareks? Lost 2 chickens suddenly

    Please help. I'm trying to read about what to do but theres a lot of info. We found one chicken dead in the coop, no signs of injury and she had no previous signs of illness. She had been acting normal earlier in the day. The rest of the flock was acting normally. Now (about an hour...
  19. AudieWarren

    Let's talk about Mareks... Looking for people who deal with in their flock

    There is so much information floating about concerning Mareks. I'm pretty sure my flock might have it.... Thanks local auction for having the breed I was looking.... Anyway I am thinking the kind I am seeing is either visceral or.... That which effects the skin... (having a brain fart and can't...
  20. Farmgirl1228

    Vaccinating for Mareks

    I recently bought 10 chicks from TSC. Of course, coming from TSC they are not vaccinated. They are around 3 weeks old now. I just ordered 60 chicks from a hatchery and they will be arriving in the next week. I got the hatchery chicks vaccinated for Mareks but I am worried about the older TSC...
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    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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