well, just know if you take them (I know I would vs cull them), you're taking mareks. Hard decision!
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We are putting a offer in on a farm and of course the first Thing I want to do is get chicks and some ducks.
So do I take my current hens with us? My original hens had mareks. I have lost all but 1 to it. As they have died I replaced them with vaccinated ones. So right now I have 1 unvaccinated hen and 4 vaccinated ones.
The chicks I will get will be vaccinated. None of my current birds are showing symptoms now but I know mareks is just waiting.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks
Janelle
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That's what I mean. I used to run my incubator in my bathroom and then realized I change my clothes in there. So now my chicks go into our spare guest room because it's the least used room in the house. And we gown and glove to go in the first 3 weeks.
I'm sure the stuff is all over my house, yard, truck, etc.
Well I have been hand feeding a hen since June. She has progressed to the point now that she can stand up again. She can turn around in a circle when she gets mad at me and can stamp her feet. She has started grooming her feathers as well. This week she has begun to actively stab at food that I hold to her beak. Before I had to part her beak and put it in. Her aim is badly off...6 to 8 inches at times. Tonight she was able to eat some ground beef mixed with oatmeal that I held in front of her. I went out to feed the others and now my last spitzhauben hen has the split leg stance. Looks like I'll have two in the house. I too think it is in the soil but the only ones I'm having contract it are the rarer birds with less genetic vitality...my tolbunts and the spitzhaubens. Frustrating.
Thanks for this post...it is about our love for each and every one of our companions that have touched our lives...I still shed tears for my "Pride"..he was my first ever German Shepherd and he died in 1989..the pain is still as raw today as it was then...for all of our loved and departed...tears flow easily and it is about our love and attachment to those that touch our lives and enhance them...that hurts the most...http://behindthemaskmd.com/2014/11/death-of-a-dog/ I know- it's written about a dog. But it really could be about any pet.
I had really poor luck with tolbunt and crele . Your right less genetic vitality. I have a group right now that is doing well. I do believe I have 29 chickens and 15 are poofy . Polish, 3 Houdans, 3 Crevecour.
I have much better luck with hatchery vaccinated birds.
I know what you mean with the aim. I had a roo that did all that, then was back on his own eating, and then just started to waste away. I think the only thing that can work in our favor when birds are symptomatic is keeping them eating.