Neorological problem in 8 week old Frizzle?

[jendodd79]

Never wear the shoes you wear outside to take care of chickens to a feed store, a lesson I learned. Have you pointed out the sick birds to the feed store employees?

Wow - I never thought of that before!

 

[JerseyGiantfolk]

Iv got one pair of boots for the chickens and they stay in the mud room and i only use them when i got in the coop. They are always washed off aswell before i bring them in the door! Can never be to careful

That's right, it's better to be safe than sorry.

 

[casportpony]

Never wear the shoes you wear outside to take care of chickens to a feed store, a lesson I learned. Have you pointed out the sick birds to the feed store employees?

Yes, as well as the owner, but he thinks that all is good because when the state vet comes once a month, he checks out okay. What he doesn't know/understand is that they're only testing for the reportable diseases.

 

[aoxa]

That's right, it's better to be safe than sorry.

My feed store has a drive through.

But when you pick out nice bright yellow boots, the average person would think twice when wearing them outside of their own back yard.

 

[haleyd]

Things aren't going so well with the Frizzle I originally posted about. I've tried to treat any possible mineral deficiencies, giving her thiamine, vitamin D, and this morning I put a vitamin supplement from the feed store in her water. I also made a mash with crumble, oats, flax seed and liquid vitamin B complex for her. She is isolated under a heat lamp. I think her condition is starting to worsen, so I'm guessing that means she has Marek's and not a deficiency.

What does this mean for the other twelve bantams she had been raised with? Like I said earlier, they were all vaccinated at the hatchery. So should the others be safe from developing Marek's? I'd like to sell some of them, but now I'm not sure what to do.

 

[aoxa]

Things aren't going so well with the Frizzle I originally posted about. I've tried to treat any possible mineral deficiencies, giving her thiamine, vitamin D, and this morning I put a vitamin supplement from the feed store in her water. I also made a mash with crumble, oats, flax seed and liquid vitamin B complex for her. She is isolated under a heat lamp. I think her condition is starting to worsen, so I'm guessing that means she has Marek's and not a deficiency.

What does this mean for the other twelve bantams she had been raised with? Like I said earlier, they were all vaccinated at the hatchery. So should the others be safe from developing Marek's? I'd like to sell some of them, but now I'm not sure what to do.

I would cull this chick if I were you. If she is not improving now, it's time.

I wouldn't worry too much about the others. If it is mareks there is no treatment available, so nothing you can do. Just watch them and hope that they don't develop anything.

You could always have her body tested. Note that I had a hen back in July I had to put down who was exhibiting symptoms similar to mareks. It's what... 6 months later and my flock is healthy and thriving. I do not think she had mareks, but she progressively got weaker and it was time to put her down.

 

[haleyd]

I would cull this chick if I were you. If she is not improving now, it's time.

I wouldn't worry too much about the others. If it is mareks there is no treatment available, so nothing you can do. Just watch them and hope that they don't develop anything.

You could always have her body tested. Note that I had a hen back in July I had to put down who was exhibiting symptoms similar to mareks. It's what... 6 months later and my flock is healthy and thriving. I do not think she had mareks, but she progressively got weaker and it was time to put her down.

This morning I found another bantam from the same pen as the Frizzle that was laying on the ground with her neck twisted behind her. I put her down. I think I'm going to make myself put down the Frizzle today too. I'm pretty ticked off with Murray Mcmurray hatchery, we'd never had any disease whatsoever until ordering this batch of chicks from them.

 

[aoxa]

This morning I found another bantam from the same pen as the Frizzle that was laying on the ground with her neck twisted behind her. I put her down. I think I'm going to make myself put down the Frizzle today too. I'm pretty ticked off with Murray Mcmurray hatchery, we'd never had any disease whatsoever until ordering this batch of chicks from them.

Since you are seeing it in more of them, I would think this is contagious. I'm so sorry to hear this.

 

[haleyd]

Since you are seeing it in more of them, I would think this is contagious. I'm so sorry to hear this.

Yeah, it's pretty disappointing. I'm trying to be proactive with the remaining bantams, giving them vitamins to boost their immune systems. We'll see what happens. And now I have someone who wants to buy a bunch of them, so they are waiting to hear how things go. (I sure wouldn't want to infect someone else with this!)

 

[Coupe]

Im so sorry to hear that! My chick was doing great..walking around much more...but then the other morrning she just couldnt stay right side up i culled her yesterday morrning. None of the other chicks have shown any signs yet. So hopefuly it was just her.