PLEASE HELP! young hen limping!

[salt and pepper]

still the same tonight.... what ever it is, it hasn't changed her appetite for strawberries!

 

[salt and pepper]

Just wanted to update, and say that I went ahead and put her out of her misery. She was getting worse, and I didn't want her to suffer. Does anybody have any ideas how to add new chicks to a flock that carries mareks? I need to get more now....

 

[casportpony]

Seminolewind would know. Sorry for your loss.

 

[salt and pepper]

Oh, forgot to tell you that I won't be able to vaccinate any new chicks, will they all die?

 

[seminolewind]

Just wanted to update, and say that I went ahead and put her out of her misery. She was getting worse, and I didn't want her to suffer. Does anybody have any ideas how to add new chicks to a flock that carries mareks? I need to get more now....

If you don't vaccinate chicks they will die. You need to order vaccinated chicks, or hatch chicks, and vaccinate them. Keep them quarantined for 3-6 weeks.

 

[salt and pepper]

I can't vaccinate them. So does that mean I can't expand my flock?

 

[seminolewind]

I CAN'T vaccinate them! So does that mean I can't expand my flock?

You need to order vaccinated chicks, or hatch chicks, and vaccinate them. Keep them quarantined for 3-6 weeks.

 

[salt and pepper]

Never mind.... from what you are telling me, all my chicks are going to die. It is not possible for me to get vaccinated chicks, or vaccinate them myself.
thank you any way.

 

[casportpony]

Never mind.... from what you are telling me, all my chicks are going to die. It is not possible for me to get vaccinated chicks, or vaccinate them myself.
 thank you any way.

I know I shouldn't, but I'll take the bait... Why not?

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

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I got a question. I may be dealing with Marek's, I have a 12 week old cockerel that appears to have lost use of right foot, it curls underneath his leg. No pain, limps around on it, eats normal.I am treating him for Vit B deficiency just in case it is that. He is with Silkie chicks same age and I lost one of them last week to what appears from the necropsy of genetic organ failure. Here is my question. I only hatch using broody chickens, and let them raise them. If I vaccinate, how can I still let the broody raise them and be in the flock with the others. Or do I not vaccinate and deal with the losses