Is this the ocular form of Marek's disease?

Jslig352

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A few months ago I had my niece hatch out 10 of my eggs from my chickens. They are roughly 9/10 weeks now and today I noticed one of them has odd eyes and I was wondering if it was the ocular form of mareks disease? If so what should I do? Just this past week I put everyone in the same coop with my older hens. They are all getting along fine. And all are acting normal besides the eyes on this one. Not sure if I posted into the correct area so please move this post if needed.
 

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Have you seen any indications that she isn't seeing well? Walking into things, not moving around as much, not finding food or water, etc? Do the pupils dilate if you shine a bright light at the eye? The eyes don't look like the ones I've had in my flock with occular Marek's, but things don't always look exactly the same. I will attach a couple of pictures of a couple of mine for comparison. I do have another bird that is blind, unknown reason but different looking than all my Marek's birds, but she also has intermittent neurological symptoms and her pupils are enlarged and don't dilate, I don't have a picture of her but her eyes look normal except for non reactive pupils. Most of mine have had the pinched tiny pupil with the small gray line like in the first picture.
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This is from literature, showing Marek's, I've never had one that looked like this - the eye on the left is normal, the eye on the right is Marek's:
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Thanks for the new pictures. I’m just now seeing them. I’m glad that coach replied about her chickens. There looks to be a lot of extra pigment around the edge of the iris which I have seen before in some posts here. 0It doesn’t look like Mareks at this point. I would try to determine how well the chicken can see.
 
I will bring him in and shine a light in his eye in the morning. I hope his eyes are just odd and not mareks that would make me so happy. He's the only one out of 10 who's eyes look so odd. Thankyou for your time and help. I'll definitely update tomorrow.
 
Thanks for the new pictures. I’m just now seeing them. I’m glad that coach replied about her chickens. There looks to be a lot of extra pigment around the edge of the iris which I have seen before in some posts here. 0It doesn’t look like Mareks at this point. I would try to determine how well the chicken can see.
He seems to see really well Boeing up at the other rooster out of the 10 that hatched when the other one comes at him.lol he takes no crap. Lol. My other little roo has been a menace trying to already what looks like mate with the other chicks. This little guy with the weird eyes is the one that comes running in to knock his block off. Lol.
 

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