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    Neurological symptoms quick death

    I've looked at several deceases birds and none had tumors on the liver nor anywhere else that I could see (gonads, heart etc.) I didn't check the spinal cord or lungs. Anyway that's why I assume it's not LL. I'm not in the states, I'm in Europe, and here backyard chicken keeping isn't enough...
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    Neurological symptoms quick death

    So, after several more cases I've come to the conclusion that, despite the early onset of the disease in some, it's Mareks. It's been going through about 60% or more of my chicks, now close to POL. In fact I might still lose more and don't know if I'll be left with any at all. Just recently my...
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    Neurological symptoms quick death

    Heh, I don't know if this is the problem or just one of many exacerbating circumstances. There still might be something additional causing the lameness, but I'm relatively certain the worms aren't improving the situation. Got to treat what I can and keep eliminating the suspects I guess...
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    Neurological symptoms quick death

    Another update in case anyone still cares. I culled one of the staggering roosters and had a cursory look inside. I didn't find anything my untrained eye would find abnormal, except that his intestine seemed bloated compared to a healthy roo I culled simultaneously. I had a closer look and...
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    Neurological symptoms quick death

    A little update: the mystery continues. My two currently affected roosters have neither gotten worse nor better. Since I hadn't had any incidents for weeks I had given away some of the young ones and now one of those I gave away has symptoms as well. Age, about 12 weeks. I asked the owner to...
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    Neurological symptoms quick death

    Thanks for your replies. We're in Spain, Catalunya to be precise. My chickens get a mix of rain and well water but if it were something with the water then I would imagine all of them would get sick, but it's only affecting a few. I've had probably over 50 chicks + 50 ducklings hatch this...
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    Neurological symptoms quick death

    The mystery continues and I still don't know what the problem is. I lost another even younger roo (about 5 weeks old) this time that had only one leg paralyzed but after about a week of waiting the second leg got wobbly too - maybe from overexertion or from the same that caused the first one to...
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    Raising ducklings without specialized feed

    Hi all. I'm currently raising ducklings of various breeds. I live in Spain in a very rural area and I cannot for the life of me find feed especially for ducks or game birds. The feed stores tell me to use chicken feed which is what I've been doing and adding brewers yeast. Even online it's...
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    Neurological symptoms quick death

    I might have an idea of what could have caused poisoning: my feeding bowl was relatively close to the water bowl and some of the feed had accumulated underneath the water bowl that was resting on a plastic plate keeping the water with the feed. This would have been exacerbated by rain which we...
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    Neurological symptoms quick death

    Thanks. While I can't immediately identify any source of potential poison at least it's something that can be fixed if found, and more importantly can't be transmitted... Is there anything else it could be and ways to reduce the suspects? I just really want to make sure I'm not harming other...
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    Neurological symptoms quick death

    One of my young hens died at about 6 weeks age. She looked fine, alert, but strangely unflustered when I picked her up, normally being very shy, because I noticed something wrong with her. Her legs were useless, not totally paralyzed but not able to stand her up anymore. I isolated her and...
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    Incubators in unheated spaces - insulation

    So I went and tried this kind of during winter. Temperatures in the house could drop to 10-12C over night and during the day often wouldn't rise much until we'd light the fire in the evenings. Incubator specifications said not lower than 17C ambient temp. So I found a plastic tub that fit...
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    Troubleshooting incubation issues

    In case anyone has similar problems I'll wrap this thread up with my conclusion: The incubator I had - a generic Chinese roller system incubator bought on Amazon - was somehow faulty. I haven't figured out what exactly it does badly, because temp and rh are good and it did turn the eggs but they...
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    Troubleshooting incubation issues

    To give a final update for this season: my last hatch was a relative success. In the same incubator, using the govee thermometer to monitor parameters, I did a dry incubation with Rh between 20 and 35 for the first 15 days then upped to 60. The temperature was relatively stable unless I added...
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    Troubleshooting incubation issues

    Update: using a borrowed incubator So I tried hatching a small batch of eggs in a different incubator - a small thing that has the eggs upright and that has worked successfully for my friend. I had to turn the eggs manually which I did by tipping the whole machine 45° from one side to the...
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