Antibiotics will soon require vet prescription

[shawluvsbirds]

I see that as a "I don't want to advise if you can see a vet"....kind of a CYA.

I think that most of the time if a person was going to take the animal to a vet . . . they wouldn't be asking for help here.
I've seen so many posts bashing the person trying to help saying. ."you are not a vet" and "there are no experts here" etc.. I think it's become more of a cover your butt kind of statement.

 

[aart]

I think that most of the time if a person was going to take the animal to a vet . . . they wouldn't be asking for help here.
I've seen so many posts bashing the person trying to help saying. ."you are not a vet" and "there are no experts here" etc.. I think it's become more of a Cover Your Butt kind of statement.

Yep, that's what I said.... CYA.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Yep, that's what I said.... CYA.

Ya. I did not pick up on the "CYA" the first time. I'm a little slow

 

[microchick]

I doubt your bird survived a year with Mareks before dying..

And if it did it would still be dead even if you took it to a vet. There is no cure for Mareks.

No ralphie. Read closely. I said I discovered that he died of a Marek's related issue a year after he died.

When he fell ill I didn't know what was wrong with him. I tried to get a vet to see him. Wouldn't The rooster was a pet that we desperately tried to help....and failed. After a year of losing birds under mysterious circumstances I was finally able to contact a Veterinary Doctor at the University of Missouri at Columbia and talk to him. When I told him how my birds were sick and how they died, and how many had died, he told me that even without a necropsy, he could just about guarantee it was Marek's.

My husband, who is a retired eye doctor after that conversation with the vet, was able to give me a definitive diagnosis of Marek's disease after I had a rooster and hen develop Grey Eye....aka Ocular Marek's Disease.

I lost 2/3rds of my 'Marek's resistant birds' over a three year period.

Maybe my sentence structure isn't perfect. I'm tired but as for Marek's.....what do you need to know about it and how it can devastate a flock of birds? I feel like I'm pretty much a nonprofessional expert on that subject.

And yes, my pet rooster is still dead.....almost 4 years later.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Yep, that's what I said.... CYA.

Everyone worries about CYA now a days.
I liked the old days when people didn't mind showing their @$$es every now and then.

 

[duluthralphie]

No ralphie. Read closely. I said I discovered that he died of a Marek's related issue a year after he died.

When he fell ill I didn't know what was wrong with him. I tried to get a vet to see him. Wouldn't The rooster was a pet that we desperately tried to help....and failed. After a year of losing birds under mysterious circumstances I was finally able to contact a Veterinary Doctor at the University of Missouri at Columbia and talk to him. When I told him how my birds were sick and how they died, and how many had died, he told me that even without a necropsy, he could just about guarantee it was Marek's.

My husband, who is a retired eye doctor after that conversation with the vet, was able to give me a definitive diagnosis of Marek's disease after I had a rooster and hen develop Grey Eye....aka Ocular Marek's Disease.

I lost 2/3rds of my 'Marek's resistant birds' over a three year period.

Maybe my sentence structure isn't perfect. I'm tired but as for Marek's.....what do you need to know about it and how it can devastate a flock of birds? I feel like I'm pretty much a nonprofessional expert on that subject.

And yes, my pet rooster is still dead.....almost 4 years later.

I am sorry I did not understand your sentence.

Mareks is nasty, no doubt about it.

I vaccinate for Mareks after my own struggles with it. While I have some old birds that were pre-Mareks outbreak here, I know a true Mareks resistant flock means lots of birds will get sick and die, those that don’t will be carriers.

Mareks is fairly easy to diagnose with a necropsy.

 

[roosterhavoc]

There’s plenty of people that have had vaccinated birds still show symptoms of Mareks and lose half or more of their flocks.

 

[duluthralphie]

There’s plenty of people that have had vaccinated birds still show symptoms of Mareks and lose half or more of their flocks.

That is complete heresay.


The science and facts are 180 degrees off from that uninformed opinion. If the vaccine is properly administrated and the birds are kept in Mareks free isolation for 10 days.

 

[roosterhavoc]

That is complete heresay.


The science and facts are 180 degrees off from that uninformed opinion.

Haha. Ok keep doing your research.

 

[duluthralphie]

Haha. Ok keep doing your research.

I would suggest the same to you.