mareks care

  1. S

    Mareks disease?

    I recently took in a chicken I was told that had been stepped on. This was 5 days ago. On the way home I immediately noticed the eyes. It screamed mareks to me. However, I have never had a chicken with mareks disease. She is completely isolated in a guest room and yes, I touch very minimal and...
  2. Katieskerlong

    Silkies with mareks

    My chickens have been showing weird symptoms and I had 2 become paralyzed and die shortly after. A month went by since then and then one of my older silkies was found the same way. Unable to move and labored breathing before dying shortly after. I decided to send her body off for a necropsy and...
  3. W

    Mareks diagnosis and new (unvaccinated) chicks arriving

    After losing two chickens (aged 6 and 10 months) to large neck tumours, we have just confirmed that they died from Mareks. So our whole flock (10 hens, 1 roo) are exposed and now carriers. Unfortunately, and thanks to terrible timing, we are about to pick up our new week-old chicks from a...
  4. EquiAsh95

    Egg bound or Mareks?

    We have a sick silked Easter egger. Both wings down. Tail down. Skinny and losing weight. We have her isolated with some water with added recovery 911 and vitamin B complex. We just euthanized a chicken at the vet that suspected Mareks. This one isn’t presenting the same. There isn’t a one sided...
  5. Sandy2003

    Mareks?

    A little under a month ago I took in a silkie that couldn’t walk due to vitamin deficiency. I took her in and gave her meds. She’s been ill for about 3 months. The women are wasnt constantly giving her meds thus the reason for her being rehome. I am now wondering if she has Mareks. I give her...
  6. Trishamn

    Chicken surviving Mareks

    Hello, so I suspected that my chickens may be Mareks positive typically I get older hens that are at point of lay so I've only had one casualty. I did add a silky and a d'ucckle about 6 months ago, the silky went blind (but is doing fine since she's pretty pushy) and my d'uccle started to get...
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