Mysterious Marek's

Dr Lou Baskind is back with the third in her series of videos on raising and caring for backyard chooks. Dr Baskind has covered a complex, but much requested, topic in this video - Marek's disease.
You may need to watch this one more than once, but it is a good intro to Marek's disease, what it is and how to identify and manage it in your flock.
You can find further information on Marek's disease via the Poultry Hub website: www.poultryhub....

[@hillaryclinton2415]

You missed the most important point.. a leaky vaxx eliminated symptoms and ended up with a virus that is MORE fatal in the unvaxxed... the vaxx is now needed to keep the birds from dying but makes them superspreaders.

[@tinfoilhomer1535]

Replace "chicken" with HUMAN and "marek's" with COVID.

[@JohnSmith-qt4pv]

Funny how at uni in 2017 it was drilled into us how dangerous leaky vaccines were but overnight we all developed a collective amnesia of this fact.

[@tinfoilhomer1535]

@@JohnSmith-qt4pv They're not dangerous to pharmaceutical profits.

[@hillaryclinton2415]

This. Delta variant is just this.. eliminate symptoms and the more virulent virus is carried by vaxxed superspreaders.

[@obviousmwene4586]

very educative and helpful

[@letstalkchickenswithlu]

Excellent and accurate account of the terrible Marek's Disease 👌

[@ashs.8572]

Thank you this is so helpful!

[@kalikale3969]

I have a chick with suspected Marek's but I just don't know. It's the only one in the clutch that is exhibiting sysmptoms. I separated it from the other chicks. It was having problems with coordination in the legs but was gasping when it breaths. It's been 4 days now since I 'quarantined' the chick and it's getting worse in it's control of it's legs but better with the breathing though still gulping air from time to time. It's legs are the problem but they aren't going one front, one back or even splayed lick doing the splits. They are both going straight back and it looks like it's trying to swim. It eats well and drinks but seems to be losing feathers. Any ideas?

[@thumperhunts6250]

please god no

[@abdullahhassan5847]

Hi please guide me I have birds of 4 months non vaccinated against mericks now some birds are showing signs of mericks can I now vaccinate my bird

[@idisseddemonslayermugentra2962]

What happened to them?

[@jadeprovence3671]

Can you add more chicks that are vaccinated to a older group that might have been exposed later? Should you not eat the eggs of a mereks bird forever?

[@fernandovelasco3006]

Can you please help? I have 7 healthy chickens not vaccinated. I plan to buy vaccinated (Mereks) chicks to eventually introduce to my flock. Any issues with this since the new chicks will be carriers of the Mereks?

[@sharpandloud3422]

Consult your local veterinarian or state veterinary office. This is a youtube video.

[@HupfDole87]

I bought 5 chickens (age was around 3-4 months). After 3 weeks the first one showed signs of marek. I had to put it down after a week. 4 weeks later the second bird showed signs and it had to be put down as well. The seller said that he had vaccinated ALL his chickens against mareks disease. The other 3 chickens plus the two chickens I got for compensation (same seller) show no signs of the disease. Now the question... this was 3 Months ago. I cleaned the coop, but not with chemicals and the chickens remain as well. Are these chickens infected as well? How likely is it that a vaccinated chicken can still get the disease and how likely is it that it can transmit it to other chickens? I wanted to get a couple of new chickens, but these ones are not vaccinated against mareks disease. They are 6 months old. I thought that typically mareks disease shows symptoms between 6 weeks and 6 months... how likely is it that unvaccinated chickens older than 6 months get mareks disease? After watching this video it is pretty likely i guess... It is not 100% certain that the chickens died to mareks, but it is highly likely. Even the vet said that it looked like that, but no report was filed. Now I regret it not testing them... honestly... it seems that this one seller screwed me over pretty badly... My take on this is, that I can only buy chickens that are vaccinated against mareks. Unvaccinated chickens will catch it and die to it even if they are older than 6 months. Im just not sure and would be thankful to any help here :)

[@deesmith1377]

From what I have read, the merek vaccine does not keep the chicken from getting the disease. The disease/virus is IN the vaccine.(just like with all vaccines). They are giving the disease/virus to your chick hoping the chick will build antibodies against it. Seems like that is alot to expect from a tiny newly hatched chick. The chick can still catch the disease/virus but ‘hopefully’ can fight it off. But from What I see they rarely do. Also by giving the chicks the vaccine you are bringing mereks onto your property, forever. I have never vaccinated my chickens in the past and never lost any to any of these diseases/virus .My daughter has had chickens for the past few years, no vaccinated and has not lost a single one to this. So Im rethinking about vaccinating my chicks since they can catch it anyway and will bring it with them… 🤔

[@chedburngaming883]

damn i think i got 1 chick affected by this .

[@monkeysuper4809]

Is it still alive?