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Glad to hear things are getting back to normal, and that no one else is sick. Your banties sound really sweet. And to hear crows again after silence is wonderful. I would just use either of the poultry vitamins, since multi B’s are the ones needed, not just B12.
Mareks testing is not very accurate on live birds, so I am not really sure that you would want to do any since you may get false negative.
It is best diagnosed after death when the state vet can test tumor tissue or feather shafts.
Most of the Mareks-experienced people here on BYC will tesll you that.
Will do on the multivitamins. That's actually a relief, because that one was only $7.00, while the other was over $20! At this point, I'm grateful for any and all good luck!
I'm still hoping and praying that it's all been a nasty combination of coccidiosis and heat stroke. I sure don't want to go around yanking blood feathers on everybody just to do a Marek's test! I know it probably wouldn't work, but it sure gave me an interesting visual ... and a bit of an involuntary quiver, just considering it. Jheesh - even the remote thought of irritating my Miss Piggy brings on hives ... she's such a stinker!
The rest of my banties are, indeed very sweet. Even the roos are gentle, both to people and their ladies. The most aggression we've seen from any of them is Simpleton's consistent war on, of all things, shoelaces! He pretty much leaves anything else alone, but we've learned very quickly that sneakers do NOT make good coop shoes, at least not at our house!