Does that include tests for various illnesses? Things like Marek's and Coryza?
I had a bunch die here many years ago, and I thought it was Marek's, but the ones up in a cage off the coop floor never got it. Even when housed with the "sick" ones later.
I think that it was environmental. We had a super-soggy rain and I covered the coop with straw, because we had two inches of standing water in there for over a week. I tried to raise the coop floor up so I could walk in there. Later when I turned it over, it was COVERED with the most horrid smelling black mold, gave off the most hideous strange odor, like nothing I had ever smelled before.
I read here on BYC that someone else had thought hers had Marek's (same symptoms) but the necropsy later showed mold killed them! I went ahead and vaccinated all my new chicks for it anyway, but if I could have done a necropsy to make sure for just $80, I would have done it in a heartbeat! Let me know the vet's name & address if you don't know the answer, maybe I can call and find out?
I took mine to a vet when that happened (in 2009, I think?) and that vet told me a necropsy would require me sending to U of A and would cost about $200 which is why I didn't do it, sigh!
So I had a $75 vet bill and no answers . . . would have happily paid $80 to know exactly what was going on.
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