Please help....

[Nursehev35]

If all are eating, drinking, pooping 100% normal poops, not losing weight, I think you will be okay.

I thought that until today. The rooster was healthy as can be yesterday.

 

[casportpony]

This is the thread I was referring to
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/i-wish-i-knew-do-you-know.1203575/

I understand about not wanting to vaccinate for it.... I'm of the same opinion. Unfortunately adding the birds from the breeder may have significantly increased the risks which you need to keep low if you are going the unvaccinated route. Hatching eggs from the breeder would have been a safer option if you wanted to increase your flock..... we all live and learn with this disease..... I bought an infected bird at auction and brought it into my flock, so I'm not in any way being critical.

Was there any mention of the recently deceased birds showing neurological any symptoms? If so, I missed that post. If there were any neurological symptoms then I would also be think ing Marek's.

 

[rebrascora]

@casportpony

It started with an ameraucauna, we thought she broke her leg because she was lying on the floor of the cage on her leg joint

I pulled him out and his neck rolled around

Those are the two things that suggested neurological issues to me.... maybe I am reading too much into those phrases.

 

[casportpony]

I thought that until today. The rooster was healthy as can be yesterday.

See, that's helpful... necrotic enteritis can cause this, but with it, the poop would probably not look normal.

 

[chickens really]

I thought that until today. The rooster was healthy as can be yesterday.

Chickens are excellent at hiding disease till it kills them...

 

[Nursehev35]

This is the thread I was referring to
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/i-wish-i-knew-do-you-know.1203575/

I understand about not wanting to vaccinate for it.... I'm of the same opinion. Unfortunately adding the birds from the breeder may have significantly increased the risks which you need to keep low if you are going the unvaccinated route. Hatching eggs from the breeder would have been a safer option if you wanted to increase your flock..... we all live and learn with this disease..... I bought an infected bird at auction and brought it into my flock, so I'm not in any way being critical.

Right, and I didn’t even ask if he vaccinated for Mareks and I didn’t with my orpingtons. But it can’t be that because the first one I lost was a lavender. If we get more we will just have to vaccinate. I never thought you were being critical. I could smack myself for buying chicks at an auction, at Easter no less, back at our old property. They all turned out to be roosters, they all had mareks and they killed off my entire flock. You’d think I would have learned. Smh

 

[casportpony]

@casportpony





Those are the two things that suggested neurological issues to me.... maybe I am reading too much into those phrases.

My bad, I missed that. .

So maybe Marek's, but no way to know for sure. leg thing does sound like it could be, but neck thing sounds more like normal throes of death.

 

[rebrascora]

So maybe Marek's, but no way to know for sure. leg thing does sound like it could be, but neck thing sounds more like normal throes of death

Yes, I appreciate that it could just be weakness or death throes or it could have been a twisted neck.... Each person will perceive (and describe) things differently and each person reading their perception will interpret it in different ways and perhaps put more emphasis on one thing than another.... it allows for there to be a lot of possible information gained and lost or misinterpreted..... so difficult when we are all trying to see things through the words of a third person. Like a childhood game where someone is blindfolded and given an object and then has to describe it to someone else..... So frustrating....why can't we all just reach through the screen and see and feel for ourselves!!

 

[casportpony]

IMO, one of the best and hardest chicken skills to learn is "how to spot the sick chicken". It's taken me years, just like it did with horses, and I'm still learning, but try sitting back and watching your flock (or herd). Pay close attention. Are any standing with their eyes shut while other are off eating, dust bathing, basking in the sun? When they eat, are they eating as much as the others or are they just pecking at food and not filling their crops? Look at their combs and wattles, are they red and healthy looking, or are they pale and shriveled? Feathers - fluffed out and ratty? The list goes on and on.