So the Asian beetles are the ones that eat the aphids and the Japanese are the stinky little biters?
We get the biting ones invading the house in the fall. Walk into a sunny room and they are everywhere. One year I got desperate, broke out the shop vac and sucked the whole lot up.....then had to air out the room from their stench.
Cap I'm really glad that you haven't had a death in a year. If I had made it to the middle of June it would ave been one year for me also. I thought I was in the clear.
DH reminded me that I had my biggest losses last year around this time then they stopped dying around the middle of June. He just gave me a hug and told me to hang in there. It would stop again. So far only 5 have died this year. Last year I was loosing one a week from Feb through the middle of June. Maybe things are getting better.
@bruceha2000 I've read that Marek's can cause sudden death. I've never opened up one of my fatalities. Just don't feel inclined which is weird for me, I'm usually insatiably curious about such things. From symptoms I've had everything from respiratory failure/heart failure where I have found a bird sitting on the roost purple as a grape and gasping for breath at 12 months of age to seizures and ocular Marek's The hen I just euthanized from suspected stroke was blind in her right eye for a year and getting by great. I went out to check their water and she was laying on her left side and newly blind in her left eye. When I held her wing out and let them drop, the left went back into position and the right hung. We figured the ocular Marek's invaded her brain, infection or tumor. Whatever could cause her to stroke. All she could do was lay in my lap and make a strangled 'awwk' sound.
I had one young cockerel named Tweek who would scream, jump in the air hit the ground and spin around on his shoulder like a break dancer. That went to seizures and death within 24 hours.
I'm glad you don't have Marek's in your flock. I wouldn't wish it on anyone with chickens that they care about.
We get the biting ones invading the house in the fall. Walk into a sunny room and they are everywhere. One year I got desperate, broke out the shop vac and sucked the whole lot up.....then had to air out the room from their stench.
Cap I'm really glad that you haven't had a death in a year. If I had made it to the middle of June it would ave been one year for me also. I thought I was in the clear.
DH reminded me that I had my biggest losses last year around this time then they stopped dying around the middle of June. He just gave me a hug and told me to hang in there. It would stop again. So far only 5 have died this year. Last year I was loosing one a week from Feb through the middle of June. Maybe things are getting better.@bruceha2000 I've read that Marek's can cause sudden death. I've never opened up one of my fatalities. Just don't feel inclined which is weird for me, I'm usually insatiably curious about such things. From symptoms I've had everything from respiratory failure/heart failure where I have found a bird sitting on the roost purple as a grape and gasping for breath at 12 months of age to seizures and ocular Marek's The hen I just euthanized from suspected stroke was blind in her right eye for a year and getting by great. I went out to check their water and she was laying on her left side and newly blind in her left eye. When I held her wing out and let them drop, the left went back into position and the right hung. We figured the ocular Marek's invaded her brain, infection or tumor. Whatever could cause her to stroke. All she could do was lay in my lap and make a strangled 'awwk' sound.
I had one young cockerel named Tweek who would scream, jump in the air hit the ground and spin around on his shoulder like a break dancer. That went to seizures and death within 24 hours.
I'm glad you don't have Marek's in your flock. I wouldn't wish it on anyone with chickens that they care about.
