mareks

  1. B

    H E L P

    My chicken is unable to walk or stand. She seemed completely fine yesterday except for the fact that she was laying on my lap loosely last night. I thought it was just due to the fact that she was tired and almost asleep, but it was different than how she normally lays when sleeping. She is not...
  2. Thechickentrainer1999

    Mareks disease question.

    I currently have 9 chickens. 4 are a year old and 5 are 3 months old. I plan on getting some more in the future and I was just wondering if you recommend me getting chicks that are unvaccinated. I know this differs but my question is... are chickens over 15 weeks who have not been vaccinated...
  3. kcocat

    Marek's? Vaccinated yet leg & now breathing issues

    This is a seabright pullet born 6/6, we got her from a well regarded, responsible chicken lady who sources her chicks from a hatchery that vaccinates all chicks for mareks. 3 days ago she had a limp & curled up toes on the right, that then progressed to walking on the knuckle & dragging the...
  4. I

    Rooster leg Paralysis Help!

    Hello, so I have a rooster who about 3 weeks ago suffered from leg paralysis. He had no movement whatsoever in his left leg . He was not able to stand on it , seemed flimsy. He could not put any weight one it. I separated him and would prop him up on a pillow so he could eat and drink water...
  5. olivigus

    Mareks and motherhood

    I have a year-old blue wyandotte hen who has gone determinedly broody. I've had her in a broody breaker pen off and on a few days at a time for weeks now. She seems to get over it, then a week later she's fluffed up and gurgling and haunting the nest boxes again. I've let a broody raise a few...
  6. lilmillefleur

    Silkie with lice has lost her balance

    Our silkie hen has been acting strange as of a few weeks ago. She is around four or five years old and is at the bottom of the pecking order in our flock of five bantams. I felt her crop this evening and it did not seem very full, and I could tell she was very skinny as I could pinch her keel...
  7. CFCDD

    Marek survivor? or something else?

    Midnight our little black bantam 1.5 years old took ill 3 weeks ago. She has what i think is a slight paralysis in her wing and can no longer jump or get back into the coop with has a ladder. There is a slight improvement but nothing major.She eats well and drinks the multi vitamin i got her...
  8. ERnoleGuy

    Medical PA playing Chicken Vet... please help.

    So I am a medical PA and I treat patients all day every day in emergency medicine, however I need some help with my most recent patient. I usually write in SBAR format so here goes. I'll try to keep it simple. Situation: I have a "sick" pullet/hen. About 5 months old. Auracans Mix. She started...
  9. Chicken Kate

    Silkie pullet injured of mareks

    I have a silkie about 2 or three months old. She started limping and looks worse. Then better now worse again. She has no eye issues, a runny nose, maybe labored breathing but that could also be fear or pain. Only one bad leg, she seems to use the wing of the bad leg only to balance but falls...
  10. T

    New member

    Hi fellow Chicken Mamas, I just got a new batch of chicks. A buff orpington, a lakenvelder, and a Minorca I had silkies a couple of years ago but they contracted Mareks and died I'm hoping this crew will be heartier. We live on a lake in St. Augustine (with the Intracoastal a couple of...
  11. heartsandwings

    Concerned about Mareks...

    My grandparents had two chickens, one of which got sick. They don't really know what they are doing so we took the chicken home (a little Australorp bantam) to nurse it back to health. We kept it completely separate from my chooks, in a cat carrier. We washed our hands very well every time. I...
  12. C

    Sick chicken help

    A few weeks ago my Easter egger was having trouble walking and she had a head tilt. At the time I wasn’t sure if she had mareks, wry neck, an ear infection, or something else. We brought her inside and gave her vitamins as well as our antibiotics in her ears. She seemed to be getting better so...
  13. L

    HELP Losing chickens fast... mareks??

    Hi everyone, new to posting but have trolled the forum for info for last couple years. I recently had 3 incidents that I am starting to wonder if this is a flock issue.. I stared with a flock of 25 chickens and about 2 weeks ago my gold lace polish died. I notice she was in a corner fluffed...
  14. rottlady

    Marek's testing in living birds

    Just an FYI There is a test for mareks in living birds http://vet.uga.edu/pdrc Does them Two types Serologic antigen test about $6/ sample (agp) instructions at bottom Tests for the mareks antigen A positive is a positive But a negative might just not have enough antibodies to be detected...
  15. Jayecookie

    Should I Vaccinate my baby chicks?

    If i were to order baby chicks from a hatcheries (which is probably going to happen cause I cant find local breeders) they offer a vaccine service for Mareks... Should I Vaccinate them?
  16. B

    New chicks and mareks vaccine

    my husband brought home three chicks two are downy, no feathers, the third is probably two weeks older--has wing and tale feathers. They were part of a "wild" flock at a local horse barn, so no vaccines. Is it too late to have them vaccinated? Do they need to be vaccinated?
  17. Timosin

    Sudden Gray Eyes and Possible Sight Trouble

    I noticed last night that one of my Isa Brown hens (1yr and 4 mos) had 2 almost completely gray iris. She walked around seemingly fine except in medium sized circles. In the coop, she was able to find the roost after bumping into it and hopped up to go to bed. This morning, I noticed my second...
  18. M

    Marek's or Vitamin Deficiency: 10 day chick can't walk, falling over, sitting on haunches!

    this is my first time with chicks. On 7/13 I brought home 4, 2 day old chicks from a local farm store-don't know where chicks came from. I set up a brooder in an oversized clear plastic storage container, with pine shaving, water, and food (just chick starter they gave me in unmarked bag at farm...
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