Granny's gone and done it again

How did you know it was mareks.
I didn't at the time. About 6 months later I talked to a Veterinary Doctor down at the vet college in Columbia Missouri at Missouri State. He said it sure sounded like I was dealing with Marek's. I was ready to send him a bird to necropsy when I remembered that I had two birds with Gray Eye. My husband, who is a retired eye doc, was able to scan their eyes with a hand held microscope (the birds were great patients) and told me that I was definitely dealing with a herpes infection and both birds were virtually blind from it.

Marek's= herpes in chickens. I had my diagnosis. I lost a lot of birds to neurological problems, some to rapid decline and others to sudden onset tumors, one rooster developing tumors in his throat over 8 weeks time that were his demise.

I lost one 8 week old chick to scissor paralysis.

I hate Marek's.
 

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