ocular mareks

  1. franciemayhem

    Noticed odd eye color in my silkie chick—could it be Ocular Marek’s disease?

    Hello all, it’s my first time posting on here! I’m relatively new to keeping backyard chickens, and right now I have two five-week old silkie chicks. I noticed that my white silkie, Spark, has odd coloring in both of her (or his) eyes. The other chick in the brooder has ‘normal’ eyes. I’m...
  2. E

    Marek’s in the flock

    I got my small flock of 5 backyard chickens back in 2021, all vaccinated against Marek’s. Now at almost 3 years old, I had to euthanize one of them as she was becoming paralyzed, and the necropsy points to Marek’s. All other chickens seem fine but now I noticed one of them is developing a grey...
  3. lmikulski

    Eye injury or ocular mareks?

    Is there any way to determine if an eye is injured vs has ocular mareks based on the pupil? I rescued this hen from an industrial area and noticed her weird eye- she's in quarantine, so low risk to my established unvaccinated flock. Normal eye on the right side, blown out pupil on the left side.
  4. MomJones

    Is This Ocular Marek's Disease?

    Hi Friends, This is difficult (because I want the answer to be NO), but I have 27 birds. In my mature laying hens (2 years old) one of the Buff Orphington's has a strange eye. It's pupil is tiny, while on the other side, the pupil is normal. She eats, drinks, lays normally. Comb is slightly...
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