MJ's little flock

[MaryJanet]

It really is a heartbreaking disease.

It's hard.

Melissa is going for a test on Saturday morning. She was only 3 days old when she arrived, so if she's got it, she caught it at my house. If her test is positive, I might as well begin to slowly break quarantine.

 

[RoyalChick]

It's hard.

Melissa is going for a test on Saturday morning. She was only 3 days old when she arrived, so if she's got it, she caught it at my house. If her test is positive, I might as well begin to slowly break quarantine.

Not sure I get the logic. Why couldn’t she have caught it in 3 days before coming to you?

 

[MaryJanet]

Not sure I get the logic. Why couldn’t she have caught it in 3 days before coming to you?

Oh, I left that out. She hatched in an incubator and moved from there to a brooder, which was very clean.

So her chances of exposure were much smaller in those three days than in the six months at my place.

 

[RoyalChick]

Oh, I left that out. She hatched in an incubator and moved from there to a brooder, which was very clean.

So her chances of exposure were much smaller in those three days than in the six months at my place.

Ah. Got it.

 

[BY Bob]

I haven't seen her improving for a while, only worsening.

Mareks has been a rather gruelling episode in my chickening life.

It's a terrible disease. You seem to be handling it with grace while doing the best you can for them.

 

[BY Bob]

Well, at least she has all the food and water she could want. Poor little thing, she really threw herself at the food when she first arrived.

Sometimes it can be enough to know we made their days as joyous as they could be even if there were not enough of them.

 

[BY Bob]

It's hard.

Melissa is going for a test on Saturday morning. She was only 3 days old when she arrived, so if she's got it, she caught it at my house. If her test is positive, I might as well begin to slowly break quarantine.

I surely hope not.

 

[MaryJanet]

I surely hope not.

If she's positive, she's asymptomatic, which is good.

Also if she's positive, I can assume all the older ladies are also positive.

If so, quarantine can be gradually broken.

If Melissa is negative, I'll try to re-home Sarah Brahma to a Marek's positive home.

 

[MaryJanet]

Ah. Got it.

I was quite impressed by the hygiene of the brooder. It was a long chest freezer with the lid removed. The breeder had lined it with absorbent pads. There were many chicks in there but they had lots of space, and there wasn't much poop, maybe 2 poops per chick, so he'd obviously been changing the absorbent pads regularly.

Maybe those pads were nappy liners? Or something like that.

 

[MaryJanet]

It's a terrible disease. You seem to be handling it with grace while doing the best you can for them.

It's grim.

Trying not to overshare the anxiety.