mareks disease

  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. H

    Help! Possible Ocular Mareks Disease?!

    Please help me to determine what is wrong with my poor Poppy girl, she has always been slower and shy but today she hopped up for a snuggle. I noticed her eye is gray and has white on the inside. Could this be mareks or possibly just blindness from something? I attached photos of both eyes for...
  4. J

    Wry Neck from attack?

    My 2 year old barvelder presented with a lump on her toe a week ago. She was moving slowly and getting pecked. When I removed the bump, it became clear that it was a balled up piece of dirt and nothing harmful. However, my flock sensed that she was off and attacked her, making her comb bleed. I...
  5. 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...
  6. B

    Marek’s Disease is the Worst

    I took our girl to the vet and the diagnosis was Marek’s, they put her down. I guess all we can do is hope for the rest of the flock and keep an eye out for symptoms? Silly question- is it strictly an avian disease or are other pets at any risk?
  7. C

    Is this mareks?

    Hi guys I’m wondering if someone could give me some advice. This is my gorgeous girl Posie. Shes usually a very perky chook but recently she’s been quite quiet, sitting in one place quite a lot which isn’t like her. I’ve brought her indoors as it is so cold at the moment and I’m concerned she’ll...
  8. ChickenNugieuwu

    My chicken was acting weird and now can’t stand

    Hi, I hope whoever this reaches can help me understand my hen better! I’ve never had this happen and naturally, I investigated on Google, lots of sources lead me to Marek’s disease, which I’ve never even heard of up until now. I’m really concerned, triple eve. The hen is my mother’s, but due...
  9. C

    A VERY SICK CHICKEN I NEED HELP!

    Hello I am new to this forum but I have been reading posts and articles in the past couple months since getting my new flock of chickens. I really need help trying to diagnose what is going on with my sick chicken! To make a long story short. A few months ago I got six new hens I am new to being...
  10. The_Chicken_Tender

    Chicken with sudden paralysis and tremors (and brittle / broken feathers)!!

    Symptoms: extremely brittle feathers, paralysis in both legs, tremors I have a hen who has seemed slightly unwell for a while. Her feathers have been extremely brittle for months - at first I thought she was molting, but she's definitely not. I have checked for mites and don't see any. Lately...
  11. Pandang81

    Mixing birds vaccinated for Mareks with unvaccinated birds

    Does anyone have experience with a mixed flock of birds vaccinated for Mareks with birds unvaccinated? What happened to the birds weekly/monthly/over the years living together? Thanks!
  12. H

    Any owners have their Silkies Survive Mareks?

    Does anyone have experience with Mareks disease in vaccinated Silkies? I just had a vaccinated Silkie die this morning of Mareks, I quarantined her after she began stumbling around the pen about 2 weeks ago. She then became blind, could no longer walk/stand and then 2 days before her death...
  13. Hennyhenhen

    Silkie rooster with Mareks(I think)

    I have a splash silkie roo that has one leg super stiff and limp toes. He flaps and flips around and is active during the day even eats and drinks a bunch, but sometimes gets stuck on his back with both legs in the air and can’t seem to get back on his feet without human help. Also his brothers...
  14. C

    3 paralyzed chickens, mareks disease?? HELP

    Hello, I have now 3 chickens that have gone down and cannot stand or do anything for themselves. I have only learned today that we should have vaccinated our chickens (I was not aware of chicken vaccines at all). The only thing we have offered is nutra-drench mixed into water. We bought them...
  15. faithsmithers

    Small and Sickly Hen

    Hi there, I am a new chicken owner. I purchased my 3 hens at 12 weeks and they are now a little over 6 months. 2 of the 3 (a welsummer and wyandotte) are big, chatty, active, have full combs, and have been laying for a couple weeks, but my third (a cuckoo maran) is significantly smaller...
  16. lilmillefleur

    Walking backwards and crop feels hard- help

    We were on vacation the past week and when we came back one of our chickens was acting off. She was walking with her head down low, and sometimes walking backwards. We were going to feed her some egg and tuna to get her some vitamins and selenium but then noticed her crop was rock hard so...
  17. D

    Lame leg

    Help my maran 1.5 year old is injured or sick little recent history lots of changes happened to the flock in past weeks including one of those in the flock was taken by preadtor - before that a week or two we made an addition to the flock and got rid of my roo who the girls new and loved but I...
  18. 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...
  19. C

    2 Very sick chickens possible Mareks disease - please help!!

    Hi. I have two very sick chickens at the moment. It started yesterday with one of them, we came home and she was lethargic, unable to walk and was struggling to lift her head. Came home again today and found the same thing with her (half) sister. The first one was able to drink from a dropper on...
  20. froggyphore

    can mareks vaccinated chicks be kept with unvaccinated, or will they give the unvaxxed chickens mareks?

    tyia :)
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