marek's disease

  1. B

    Help! Is this Marek's disease?

    We got a couple of new pullets two days ago, and one of them seems odd. She nods her head up and down a lot when sleeping, but not when she's awake. She also has very laboured breathing when sleeping. I googled the symptoms and I am now terrified she could have Marek's disease. She has light...
  2. MothaClucker0403

    Marek's Fatality - How to Proceed??

    Over the last few days we had one of our Liege Fighters come down with a case of the splits and no matter what we did it progressed. We had been hoping for just a vitamin deficiency and not the absolute worse - but we got home today and the poor thing could barely lift her head. Her last days...
  3. HuskerHens18

    Very ill chickens

    I was gone for FOUR days, and in that short span of time all hell has broke loose. I'm losing chickens like crazy with no symptoms, and now today there are symptoms and I don't know what to do. I had one hen sent in to the University and nobody has called or emailed back yet. Ages range from...
  4. Acre4Me

    Marek’s Q - visited infected flock!

    Today a friend took my child and I to visit a friend of theirs that raises chickens. We went to their hen house and admired the birds while walking around inside. We did not handle the birds, but were inside and around the henhouse for 20 min. Once we left, the friend shared that the...
  5. Leihamarie

    Not Mareks?!?!?!?! What could it have been?

    Hi all, So this is an odd result I received yesterday on some blood tests I had done on my flock. This is not an emergency, I have no sick birds but I want to get your opinion/experience in what this could have been. I had what I thought was Marek's disease take my whole flock over the...
  6. B

    Lessons from Marek's

    This is not an emergency for me. We had a hen with Marek's but came across the situation too late to save the poor thing (although symptoms improved over a few days). It seemed like a particularly horrible strain. In a nutshell, we saw our chicken out in the yard lying on her side Thursday...
  7. HonaHelp

    A blessing turns into a nightmare...beware......

    Several weeks ago..I won a rare pullet raffle. I was over the moon with excitement!! :eek: The 4 different breed pullets were shipped to me from a breeder down south....at 8(one of them) and 12 weeks old. Luckily...the Ohio cold has kept my quarantine period LONG. The birds have been here...
  8. Boss8

    Question about Marek's disease

    Wondering how prevalent Marek's disease is in backyard flocks...I had received 3 pullets from Murry McMurry hatcheries about 12 days ago, one had symptoms of Marek's ... Very concerned about my other 7 that are one year old...they were vaccinated but I know they can still contact it...thanks
  9. nakdash

    Single Hen, Lost Sister to Marek's

    Hey Everyone! Would like your input. Recently lost my hen to Marek's and I now have a single hen and she has not had any signs of the disease in the past few weeks. I want to add friends, but not sure how to do so and if I should get vaccinated or unvaccinated chicks/hens? My current hen is...
  10. AmazingRachel

    Severe weakness in legs/can't balance. UPDATE (avian vet diagnosed)

    10 month old Barred Rock pullet. Home hatched from an incubator, so no vaccines. Yesterday, I saw one of my birds kind of limping/having weakness on her left leg yesterday. She could walk fine and was drinking so I assumed that she might of fallen off the roost and sprained something. She's near...
  11. Coolbrooker

    Hen has cloacitis but I think she could also have Mareks

    Please help, I don't want to lose my flock! (I know if it's cloacitis it's not contagious but I'm afraid that's not the whole story). It started last night when I noticed a hen in the nesting box. I picked her up to put her on the bars, thought she was good and let go. The hen proceeded to fall...
  12. Sassysouth

    Silkie not acting normal. Update: Marek’s

    I am in North AL. I have a 14 week old Silkie. I noticed yesterday when I got scratch out for the flock, she didn’t run over like she usually does. I actually only saw her eat 3 pieces. She was just sitting all fluffed up later, so I brought her to the basement thinking she was cold. Her crop...
  13. Hyunsoo Moon

    A lone survivor after Marek’s

    Hello all, we used to have 5 chickens, and 4 chickens died due to Marlek’s disease. We have one chicken now, and we don’t know what to do. She’s lonely, squawks a lot, and we have been advised not to get more, since she’s now a carrier and the disease is in the soil. We tried giving her stuffed...
  14. Hyunsoo Moon

    A Lone survivor after Marek’s

    Hello all, we used to have 5 chickens, and 4 chickens died due to Marlek’s disease. We have one chicken now, and we don’t know what to do. She’s lonely, squawks a lot, and we have been advised not to get more, since she’s now a carrier and the disease is in the soil. We tried giving her stuffed...
  15. TheMonroeChicks

    Don't know if week old chicks are vaccinated for Mareks

    Hello all, I bought 2, week old babies yesterday. When I asked if they were vaccinated for Mareks, they didn't know, but said they'd never had problems. Any advice on what I should do? TIA
  16. HuntingChick14

    My chicken is dying!!!

    My speckled Sussex has had a large crop for probably 2 weeks, and with this being my first time with chickens, I thought she just liked to gorge herself on food. She kept doing the weird head/neck movements and I thought she was just trying to get her food to go down (I was wrong). So I finally...
  17. C

    Marek's questions, non urgent, can I do more

    This is a non urgent question. I would love feedback from others dealing with Marek's in their flock. We have confirmed Marek's in our flock. As you can imagine we have lost quite a few birds. Some to spontaneous death and others to neuro symptoms. However, most recently our 20 week old buff...
  18. albngore

    Beware: Tractor Supply Co. chicks are NOT vaccinated--never

    Never buy un-vaccinated chicks from anywhere. Several diseases are endemic to almost all poultry flocks whether you have problems with this or not. Marek's disease in particular is devastating. Salmonella is also pervasive. Chickens can be carriers without developing physical signs. Young...
  19. Bree Tree

    Testing for Marek's in CA

    Hello Chicken loving folks! I've been dealing with what seems to be Marek's disease spreading through my flock. I've spoken with a few vet's in the area and called UC Davis. One of my poor chickens has been paralyzed for over a week now, won't eat unless I syringe feed her, I feel euthanizing...
  20. MareAndChicks

    RIP Potato Roo....

    Greetings. I got my first chicks on my birthday back in January on the 7th. I moved to a 5 acres horse property in the woods of Fall City, Washington back in October of last year, 2016. This is a dream come true for me and my family. The property had a hen house, fenced run, and a fenced in area...
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