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[candicemarie]

It's walking with out falling!! Still a little unstable, but definitely a huge improvement compared to yesterday. Also, I could have sworn I read poly-visor WITH iron... Now all I can find is with out iron. Bought the wrong kind so I will hold off until I am 100% sure (I'm sure one of you probably mentioned above, I will double check)

 

[candicemarie]

It's walking with out falling!! Still a little unstable, but definitely a huge improvement compared to yesterday. Also, I could have sworn I read poly-visor WITH iron... Now all I can find is with out iron. Bought the wrong kind so I will hold off until I am 100% sure (I'm sure one of you probably mentioned above, I will double check)

I do see you said without iron in above comments, it's been a rough day lol, I should probably call it a night haha

 

[2seth2]

Congrats on your chick showing improvement lets hope it countinues

 

[NevadaRon]

Fingers crossed for Chicharo Elizabeth!

 

[sherylreno]

Candice - you said something earlier that really stuck with me. Dis she hatch the chicks in an incubator or did she have a broody hatch them. Was the chicks at anytime with any of the older chickens? Of course, we all know they can get Marek's without even having contact with other chickens. The breeder said she hasn't had Marek's in a long time then it's telling me she still has Marek's, found this on shagbarkbantam.blog page:

Mareks is extremely contagious but does not spread vertically (to the egg). Youngsters should develop a natural immunity (called 'age resistance'), by the time they're five months old. This is one of the reasons it is important to raise your youngsters separately from your oldsters. The older birds that have encountered Mareks and have managed to survive are carriers. New birds coming in from other flocks are always potential carriers.

Mareks usually hits between 5 and 25 weeks of age, but can appear even later if the bird had 'latent' MD and is substantially stressed. However, if the bird is a few years old, I would suspect a similar disease called Lymphoid Leukosis (which does pass to the egg). Both diseases will produce internal lesions (or tumors), detectable upon post mortem examination, but LL does not produce paralysis.

 

[candicemarie]

Candice - you said something earlier that really stuck with me. Dis she hatch the chicks in an incubator or did she have a broody hatch them. Was the chicks at anytime with any of the older chickens? Of course, we all know they can get Marek's without even having contact with other chickens. The breeder said she hasn't had Marek's in a long time then it's telling me she still has Marek's, found this on shagbarkbantam.blog page:

Mareks is extremely contagious but does not spread vertically (to the egg). Youngsters should develop a natural immunity (called 'age resistance'), by the time they're five months old. This is one of the reasons it is important to raise your youngsters separately from your oldsters. The older birds that have encountered Mareks and have managed to survive are carriers. New birds coming in from other flocks are always potential carriers.

Mareks usually hits between 5 and 25 weeks of age, but can appear even later if the bird had 'latent' MD and is substantially stressed. However, if the bird is a few years old, I would suspect a similar disease called Lymphoid Leukosis (which does pass to the egg). Both diseases will produce internal lesions (or tumors), detectable upon post mortem examination, but LL does not produce paralysis.

I will ask when she emails me back. I'm 75% sure they were hatched in an incubator, but am not positive. Just checked on My chick before bed, he was moving around so much better, and going back and forth between food and water.. Which he wasn't doing yesterday.
Is it possible that he was injured Sunday, stopped eating because it hurt to move, and by the time I realized he had something wrong, started wasting? I didn't separate and give special care until Wednesday morning..

 

[sherylreno]

I believe your little chick is coming out of this. Find out more information from you. It she had Marek's then she still has it. Some diseases do not go away. Also, like Missy and Aubrey said earlier, these birds have a hard time with shipping and if Marek's is in them then it will come out during that stressful time. Keep us updated.

 

[aubreynoramarie]

Sorry Candice it is Poly-vi-sol WITHOUT iron!

Apparently the chicken is unable to flush the iron from its system and it slowly poisons them.

 

[candicemarie]

Sorry Candice it is Poly-vi-sol WITHOUT iron!

Apparently the chicken is unable to flush the iron from its system and it slowly poisons them.

No problem! I just stored the wrong info in my head lol
woke up to find the chick wide wake, standing, moving around. Still shows that it's legs is in pain, but is moving bending it like normal, just seems hesitant to use it.. Also has 100% normal poop!
Still wondering if anyone has had a chick with marecks show signs then recover in less than 5 days?

Also, my cat is now interested in watching him again! She showed no interest when the chick was immobile, so you know it has to be a huge improvement

 

[Lacy Blues]

Candicemarie, if you're concerned about pain you can give him some blueberries. They contain natural aspirin. I have used it many times when my birds have injured a hock joint and I find them limping. I use frozen blueberries and cut them up as the inside of the blueberry is more appealing to them than the dark outside.

I've never had a bird recover from Mareks though I've heard of some people's birds who have but it was not within 5 days.

One thing you chicken keepers can keep in mind is this... for Mareks, turkeys have a much milder form of Mareks than chickens. In fact, if you have turkeys in your yard (and who doesn't right?) and your chickens run with your turkeys, they will catch the turkey form of Mareks and you won't even be able to tell its sick at all. They catch it and it makes them IMMUNE to the chicken form of mareks.

My first year raising chicks, I lost a whole hatch to mareks. Then later that year, I heard about this turkey mareks and its benefits... so I found some 4H kids that raised turkeys that came from an NPIP approved hatchery and collected their turkey coop cleanings at the end of their raising period (after the county fair) and spread it in my chicken runs. I can tell you I was really nervous about doing this. I had horrible visions of coming down the next day and finding them all dead, having bled out from every orifice. But it didn't happen. What did happen is that I haven't seen mareks disease in my flock since.

So, whenever the kids in 4H show their turkeys around here, I'd suggest offering to clean their coops so you can get the droppings and spread them in your chicken yard where the chickens are sure to peck amongst the stuff. It works wonders!