lonicera56
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Sadly I have lost quite a few of my young Pekins over the summer & after the 5th one died in exactly the same way as the previous ones, I had a PM which revealed a "Mareks-like" virus, according to the vet.
I have read what I can about Mareks to try & decide my best course of action with regard to my remaining birds, which fortunately are separate from the main flock. Every time I find a bird looking a bit "iffy", I remove him from the others until the inevitable happens (we have even tried killing the house-mates to try & stop it in its tracks) but it still seems to be travelling slowly through the rest.
What I can't get my head round is why does this affect only 1 bird at a time & why is it always at about 2 week intervals? Presumably the 2 week thing must be to do with incubation period, but if there were 8 together originally, how come they didn't all contract symptons & die at the same time?
Can anyone shed any light on this please?
I have read what I can about Mareks to try & decide my best course of action with regard to my remaining birds, which fortunately are separate from the main flock. Every time I find a bird looking a bit "iffy", I remove him from the others until the inevitable happens (we have even tried killing the house-mates to try & stop it in its tracks) but it still seems to be travelling slowly through the rest.
What I can't get my head round is why does this affect only 1 bird at a time & why is it always at about 2 week intervals? Presumably the 2 week thing must be to do with incubation period, but if there were 8 together originally, how come they didn't all contract symptons & die at the same time?
Can anyone shed any light on this please?