How did I get mareks?

[SweetandSavory]

I kept the sickest bird tho necropsy when I have time, meantime going back to Purina chick started in case this is a vitamin deficiency

I would also get the vitamins you add to water.

 

[Gypsi]

Feed store have vitamins?

 

[SweetandSavory]

It should. They usually have a poultry area that will have them.

 

[Gypsi]

No time for vitamin hunt or necropsy on sickest bird. Water and Purina medicated chick starter. He is vertical this morning. Reckon I should still necropsy?

 

[Gypsi]

Walked out to take him breakfast and when I turned the corner into the shed he was standing up, not just sitting vertical. Somehow I don't think he had mareks. Maybe malnutrition and a fall. I can still do a necropsy because I do not keep roosters here, toddlers visit, the roosters get too mean.

The pullets he was in with have not reached point of lay. I did not clean the coop. Read the 6 to 16 week incubation period and determined they were infected or not infected. I can keep him isolated til he is eating size and see how they do

 

[Gypsi]

Photo this morning. He is vertical and was standing up for a brief moment when I walked into the shed with food.

 

[Gypsi]

of my January hatch this guy, the one the other roosters clobbered, was the only one to get his own flock. A vet in a country town near by got him a home. Not bad for a mixed breed roo with a broken spine/neck who got pushed off the roof of the coop