Is this a Meat Chicken?

[Peppercorngal]

Do you know if your babies were vaccinated for mareks disease?

Yes, they were. I paid extra for that!

 

[Peppercorngal]

Can you check if she has some Bumps or tumors on the skin? Or imperfection, in the eye iris perimeter ?

I'll check her out further. Don't know!

 

[Peppercorngal]

Ok, that is where the video of her trying to walk. And I did start to suspect that "she" was a "he" recently. I was getting upset because of my 28 ordered females I got three roosters! One I can handle, but three???!!

 

[Flockandfowl46]

You know hun I'm no expert but I'm really suspicious of mareks after seeing that you may want to contact your seller and you never know maybe wasn't 100% effective might want to research that...poor girl

 

[Peppercorngal]

Pearl is eating and drinking normally by the way. Here's her/his?? eye. Does it look ok to you? I checked (lets just say "her" for now) her all over and felt no bumps or anything abnormal. The only abnormality is that she doesn't walk that I can tell. Should I isolate her from the flock? Wouldn't it be too late for that anyway?

 

[Peppercorngal]

You know hun I'm no expert but I'm really suspicious of mareks after seeing that you may want to contact your seller and you never know maybe wasn't 100% effective might want to research that...poor girl

I don't think the seller could or would do anything except give me a "credit". That's what they did when I got a cross beak rooster last year. (Murray McMurray) I won't be using them again anyway, so it's a moot point.

 

[Flockandfowl46]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/the-great-big-giant-mareks-disease-faq.66077/
Here's a link for the BYC mareks info that will be very helpful to you hun

 

[Kiki]

May I ask what do you feed your flock?

 

[Peppercorngal]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/the-great-big-giant-mareks-disease-faq.66077/
Here's a link for the BYC mareks info that will be very helpful to you hun

Thanks, it's sort of helpful.

 

[Peppercorngal]

May I ask what do you feed your flock?

I feed them Tractor Supply brand DuMor Chick Grower. They free range about an hour a day and get treats of spinach leaves, grapes, yogurt, dove & quail seed and dried meal worms. Every other day they get a cup of scratch. There are 26 of them together.
Why?