Not an Emergency...Marek's in the Flock

[Nambroth]

Agreed. People might be eating them anyhow from time to time and not even realize it (Marek's positive birds that don't develop symptoms before slaughter). If she hasn't wasted too badly, there is no harm in it.

 

[Haunted55]

Okay, I have a minute, lol!

Salt and Pepper...I am so sorry. That's an awful thing to deal with. Now the question, how are the others?

 

[salt and pepper]

Okay, I have a minute, lol!

Salt and Pepper...I am so sorry. That's an awful thing to deal with. Now the question, how are the others?

Thanks.... After further inspection, it's NOT a tumor.... So now I really don't know what to do with her. She's getting weaker, and more depressed, but I can't find anything noticeably wrong with her... I'll give her ( and me ) more time to figure it out. I'll be honest, really not willing to spend anymore money on her, so will try to heal her if I can, If not, she gets culled. The rest of the flock is doing awesome! I got twelve extra chicks this year, and she is the only one that has gotten ill ( she's 22 weeks ) and is my least valuable member in the flock, so it's not a huge loss....

 

[Haunted55]

Thanks.... After further inspection, it's NOT a tumor.... So now I really don't know what to do with her. She's getting weaker, and more depressed, but I can't find anything noticeably wrong with her... I'll give her ( and me ) more time to figure it out. I'll be honest, really not willing to spend anymore money on her, so will try to heal her if I can, If not, she gets culled. The rest of the flock is doing awesome! I got twelve extra chicks this year, and she is the only one that has gotten ill ( she's 22 weeks ) and is my least valuable member in the flock, so it's not a huge loss....

Salt and Pepper, what do you mean by further inspection? I also have a dumb question for you. Do you have any turmeric in the house? If not, are you willing to go to Wally World and buy some in the vitamin section? They aren't that much and even not knowing what is causing this, this could be a viable treatment. Turmeric is a blood cleanser and it works on both the red and white. So let's say this is in fact a tumor and it's lymphatic in nature, turmeric could help at least make it smaller.

I was doing some reading a while back and will have to go back and review as it was finished during that heat we had here last week and I don't trust my head when it goes into melt down. What I remember of it was that human Mono is the same family as believe it or not, Marek's. Now this information as well as $2 will get you a cup of coffee anywhere, right? Okay, usually Mono in a human is fairly sefl limiting. I say fairly, because some people will be symptomatic for long after they are 'over' the initial infection. My son had Mono and H1N1 at the same time and after researching, I started giving him turmeric and believe it or not, within a week the symptoms, like enlarged spleen, etc. started going away. Is it a cure? Who knows! Did it work...yeah it did, well enough that my Doctor wanted to know just what I had done. When I told him, he got this weird look on his face and then asked why I had thought about using it and then told me there are some research people working with turmeric right now for cancer.

One step further, if I am remembering the info I read correctly and Mono and Marek's are the 'same' but different host specific, it would seem to me, that if it works for one, it may and should work for the other. It's not a cure, but it might be a treatment that could bridge the time of active infection to possible remission? Not sure just how to word this without giving the wrong impression.

 

[salt and pepper]

I carry every type of spice imaginable, so yeah, I have turmeric, lol. Thanks for the advice! I will definitely try that. Oh, I mean that every day I checked her completely over, and the mass keeps changing, sometimes it's not even there, other days it's small, some days larger, etc, etc. So she has an issue with her crop, which Could even be cocci, I can only find sulmet around here though, and by the time I order corrid, she will probably be dead.

 

[casportpony]

I carry every type of spice imaginable, so yeah, I have turmeric, lol. Thanks for the advice! I will definitely try that. Oh, I mean that every day I checked her completely over, and the mass keeps changing, sometimes it's not even there, other days it's small, some days larger, etc, etc. So she has an issue with her crop, which Could even be cocci, I can only find sulmet around here though, and by the time I order corrid, she will probably be dead.

Amprolium (Corid) is also sold under the name of Amprol.

-Kathy

 

[salt and pepper]

Does it make any difference that the feed they are on right now has amprolium in it?

 

[casportpony]

Does it make any difference that the feed they are on right now has amprolium in it?

It shouldn't, but I can't back that up with anything, lol.

-Kathy

 

[seminolewind]

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You are lucky to have one nearby. (Not lucky to have a problem)

 

[seminolewind]

We've all read this and most of us have tried it. Hypericum, or St John's Wort, didn't work for me, neither anyone else I've spoken with. Wish it had.

Agreed.There is NO CURE for Marek's. If there is, send a St John's Wort treated chicken's blood to Texas A&M and publish the findings here. To date, no one has done that, so I would be reluctant to tell sad, desperate people who love their pets that there is a cure unless proven by a poultry lab that specializes is poultry illnesses. I am not against trying every vitamin, mineral, or herb under the sun. But to date, there is no Medical proof .

And no medical miracle, to my knowledge.