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I don't know much about chicken diseases besides what I've read. I've only had four unexplained illnesses/deaths in many yrs. Two golden comets up and died several yrs ago.
And (whenever I got the sandhill birds) a brown leghorn and a welsummer struck ill. Those last two had me scared, looked like mareks to me.
They were from my older group of birds I did have vaccinated, and I had just recently read about how the vaccine can make super mareks or whatever and put unvaccinated chickens at higher risk. I had six silkies that were not vaccinated in with them to make room for the group I got from sandhill not vaccinated either which I had just then also added to the big coop after a hawk attack that killed one of the best pullets and then the hawk came back... it was the only coop I had at the time with a covered run.
Without a necropsy I guess I can't say for sure the cause of the illness. I've never wormed any of my birds either so I guess could have been parasite load? I just know many yrs of many that I have butchered I've never seen any evidence of parasites.
All I know is I saw a couple very sick birds and promptly removed them, even though I guess it would have been too late for the rest anyway.
No other sick birds since and no others besides them.
IDK, I just pray for a healthy flock
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superchemicalgirl said:
Since you're praying, pray for my turkey to stop being broody.

She now has approximately 450,000 eggs under her.
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Yes, but she just needs one to hatch to break the broody!

Back to the antiviral. The way I see it, like now, with me having the strong possibility of Marek's on my property, I would without a shadow of a doubt be willing to put my whole flock on a maintenance dose of Acyclovir IF there were no harmful side effects at low or ultra low dosage and IF it kept the virus dormant in them. Acyclovir if memory serves me right from my head on collision with shingles, isn't an overall expensive drug and we had patients who took low dosages on a continued basis to keep the herpatic shingles virus from flaring up on them.
 
microchick said:
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Yes, but she just needs one to hatch to break the broody!

Back to the antiviral. The way I see it, like now, with me having the strong possibility of Marek's on my property, I would without a shadow of a doubt be willing to put my whole flock on a maintenance dose of Acyclovir IF there were no harmful side effects at low or ultra low dosage and IF it kept the virus dormant in them. Acyclovir if memory serves me right from my head on collision with shingles, isn't an overall expensive drug and we had patients who took low dosages on a continued basis to keep the herpatic shingles virus from flaring up on them.
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There was a moderator darned if I can remember her name, don't think she's on anymore, in Florida, that dealt with a flock with mareks and on her property. Had a thread about it. Seminolewind I think it was, spelling might be wrong as far as where capitals go but you could search it and see what she how she dealt with it. I skimmed through it a couple yrs ago.
 
Beer can said:
There was a moderator darned if I can remember her name, don't think she's on anymore, in Florida, that dealt with a flock with mareks and on her property. Had a thread about it. Seminolewind I think it was, spelling might be wrong as far as where capitals go but you could search it and see what she how she dealt with it. I skimmed through it a couple yrs ago.
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I think she is still around but uses a different user id now
 
Wonder how we or hatcheries decide we or they are truly breeding for resistance of any poultry disease unless the birds are actually having the various diseases introduced to the flock to see how they cope??
 
Beer can said:
There was a moderator darned if I can remember her name, don't think she's on anymore, in Florida, that dealt with a flock with mareks and on her property. Had a thread about it. Seminolewind I think it was, spelling might be wrong as far as where capitals go but you could search it and see what she how she dealt with it. I skimmed through it a couple yrs ago.
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She is still on and active in the mareks thread:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1165785/mareks-in-my-flock#post_18343509
 

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