I’ve spent quite a bit of time researching Mareks today
It sounds like it
I don’t want to cull him, but it seems he is struggling to move much
obviously now all my male flock is contaminated. None have shown any symptoms up to now, and I bought these chickens in june
The first two chickens I bought were from an allotment style backyard breeder who didn’t have much luck raising chicks etc
Sold us “Two females “. One died about a month later. Found it under the bars in the coop. We thought it had gotten stuck and broke its neck.
the next four chickens were the silkies I got from a person who seemed the raise chickens for a living/ major side hobby. He had fighter chickens etc and hundred of chickens and a lot of chicks, I picked these as random and for different colours .. unlucky that turns out they are all males.
am I right to presume none of my chickens would have been vaccinated ... I never asked as I didn’t know about mareks then.
can I vaccinate them now. To make the possible symptoms less severe in the rest of the flock
What can I do now
what can I try to either try and possibly improve the symptoms of my affected chicken to elimate other diseases or slow down the progression