Mareks experience needed. prelim results pg 9

[nizar]

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That looks exactly like slipped tendons! Treat it fast or else you won't be able to fix it.

what is the best treatment Emaker , they are recovering but so slow.
I found that most the feed that feeding them haven't b12 vitamin in it except multivitamin effervescent tab in water , that made my little sure they got slipped tendon (curled toes).

 

[seminolewind]

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Don't give up on him yet. 9/10 roos have been straightened out by me.
Stalk him. Put on heavy clothes and stalk him every time you go out. Walk right towards him staring him right in the eye and make him move back-all over the yard. It's YOU that has to make him move, not him.

Never take a step back from him. You lose when you do.

Never hit him , kick him hard, etc. He takes that as a challange.

My subjects have always started just staring at me, like they're waiting for a command. That's what they should be doing. Some become quite friendly later on.

The only one it didn't work on for me was a D'Uccle bantam. Nasty thing would run from me, and the minute I turned to go, he would FLING his body at me.

 

[seminolewind]

Well I put my 2 month old vaccinated Polish chicks out in a coop/pen a few days ago. I sprayed everything down with Oxine. I would hate to lose them but they can't live in the house forever. If it would have done any good, I would have vaccinated them every day, LOL.

I have 12 vaccinated chicks coming next week and I wish I hadn't ordered them. I am so chick'd out. Maybe I should give them all to a friend and ask that she give me a few back in a couple months.

I'd like to hatch some of my own Polish in January. They will be eggs from my resistant hens. Which means they will have the antibodies already. I've heard that it makes the vaccine useless. What should I do?

Another thing that I wonder about. If I hatched 5 batches of purchased eggs in the last 2 years, and I've only had one or none die from each hatch, and the last batch of purchased eggs all died, could the difference be that most of the batches were from exposed flocks so that they already had a maternal antibody, and the last batch was bought from a flock that never had an exposure?

 

[Gerry2011]

I just finished reading this entire thread......much of the time with tears in my eyes

....my heart goes out to all of you battling this horrid disease

You have fought so hard and lost so much, but it will come to an end. You will be exhausted and brokenhearted, but you will come back stronger than before. Thank you for sharing all the information and links with us so we might be better prepared if this happens to us. My prayers are with you all

 

[seminolewind]

Gerry, that was a very nice post, and it's nice to know that there are people like you take the time to read a whole thread like this!

Karen

 

[MyKidLuvsGreenEgz]

I did as much research as I could about Marek's but still have questions:

-can we eat eggs from a hen who has Marek's?
-can we eat the hen who has Marek's?
-will lysol or other disinfectant get rid of Marek's in and around the coop?

What's the best way to get rid of any possibility of Marek's from a chicken coop? We have chickens wandering over to our yard all the time (from a neighbor's yard). We also had lots of people coming by to buy chicks in the last few months so if someone brought it in on their shoes or whatever, I need to find a way to disinfect our coop and surrounding areas.

Changing how we sell our chicks. They'll be in a kennel in the front of our house when people come by to look/buy, and nobody will be allowed to touch until they are paid for.

We don't have Marek's but we had a scare and just want to make sure we prevent getting it as much as possible.

Thanks.

 

[AZBootsie]

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Lysol probably does kill viruses, but it isn't good for chickens. Oxine is a great disinfectant. If used without the activator it can be sprayed in, around and on chickens. You can dilute some in a spritz bottle to spray your shoes before entering coop, or put it in some sort of a "step into tray". Mareks is not passed in eggs. Chickens with Mareks waste away....they would be really light and scrawny. I don't think it would be dangerous to eat one....but probably not worth the effort.

 

[hokankai]

Just thought I'd update that my d'uccle that was not walking has made a miraculous recovery! We treated her with corid as well as gave her B vitamin supplementation and she's walking around like it's no big deal. Her sister still has a bum leg and is unfortunately at the bottom of the pecking order, but I think that was caused by an injury as it hasn't changed in 2 months.

Here's a video of her walking! She's the d'uccle that's walking around, and you can see her sis with the bum leg near the end

(sorry...it's kinda sideways, haha)


And this is her just a week earlier

 

[AZBootsie]

 

[FrenchToast]

I just quarantined a silkie pullet that wasn't walking and was being mated constantly by a young roo. At first I feared mareks !! She also sat ruffled and wasn't eating. I was treating a showgirl hen for wry neck at the same time and was giving her vitamin E, selenium and vitamin B complex as well as feeding scrambled eggs. All twice a day.
So I thought what would it hurt to try this on the silkie. Instead of putting corrid in her water twice a day I wetted my finger and dipped it into the corrid powder. Then I opened her mouth and scraped it off onto the roof/side of her mouth. I gave her a 400IU Vitamin E, A small piece of B Complex and a tiny piece of selenium. I hand fed her scrambled egg. (note the showgirl didn't get the corrid)
Within two days she was looking better. It's been about a week and she is walking all over and talking to me. I put her in with the :showgirl for company. She is fine.
So I think the Vitamin B complex is good to boost the immune system. I also had a dutch bantam pullet that seemed to be weak. I did the same for her and she is now fine. I think when they are low man they don't get the proper amount of feed thus causing alot of symptoms that can even mimik Mareks although Mareks has some pretty identifiable symptoms.

Just thought I would share.