Is Marek’s disease killing my chickens? Or something else?

[birdwrangler057]

Hi everyone! Haven’t been on here in a while! I guess that’s a good thing considering that I haven’t been having too many issues.

So,
I went out of town and came back today and one of my chickens were dead, and had been for a few days. I had a chicken of the same brood of chicks die about 4 weeks ago, they are all about 12 weeks old. They both died the exact same way, just lying there, stretched out, no animals had attacked them and they were mite free. They were healthy as they could be. I had a young bantam rooster die about 6 months ago, the same exact way, but he wasn’t from the same brood. None of my older chickens have died this way. Could it be mareks?

 

[Folly's place]

Only a necropsy will answer this question! Refrigerate the body and call your state vet lab about it.
Mary

 

[birdwrangler057]

Only a necropsy will answer this question! Refrigerate the body and call your state vet lab about it.
Mary

Oh... it’s a shame I buried it

 

[Al Capon]

Keep an eye out for a big snake. They sometimes kill chickens then figure out there's no way to swallow them..

 

[birdwrangler057]

Keep an eye out for a big snake. They sometimes kill chickens then figure out there's no way to swallow them..

I’ve had a wethead before, it’s definitely not that... they just drop dead, stretched out.

 

[PollyGirl21]

Oh... it’s a shame I buried it

I do the same to my chickens who have passed away.

 

[birdwrangler057]

I do the same to my chickens who have passed away.

Who doesn’t? I don’t think my family would appreciate a rotting chicken in the fridge