hurt leg!

I will try the sling for her. I just don’t think it’s mareks because it’s just one leg the other is perfectly fine and everything else about her is 100% fine. She’s 1.5 years old

Your perception of Marek's is incorrect. It usually just affects one limb, either a leg or wing or even just one eyelid or twists the neck or the tail. It is referred to as asymmetric paralysis. Most of my Marek's birds are bright eyed and keen to eat etc at least in the early stages.... I've had birds nest bound with it for several months but otherwise look healthy and eat well and recover. Sadly others are not so fortunate and decline and die. The nature of the disease is such that all birds don't exhibit symptoms at once and there can be several weeks, months or even years between cases of it in a flock.
I am not saying that your girl definitely does have Marek's, but don't rule it out because it is definitely still an option, even if she appears to fully recover. It is an incredibly common disease but many people do not understand it and/or don't realise that they have it in their flock.
Some birds find the sling beneficial and others panic. By all means make adjustments to see if she will settle to it, but if she is clearly unhappy in it, don't persevere as stress can make her worse.
A vitamin supplement can't hurt short term, so I would encourage you to try that too.
 


This is what she’s started doing with her neck. I hadn’t seen her do it before but when she’s laying there and goes to grab something not right in front of her it will happen as well
 
I'm very sorry that she is not getting better.

I do agree it looks like Marek's and she's have neurological symptoms.

You can try vitamin therapy of 400IU Vitamin E daily along with 1/4 tablet of human B-Complex. Give egg or tuna for Selenium.

If she does not improve over the course of a few days, then it may be time to think about ending her suffering. Not the popular thing to say, but quality of life also needs to be considered.
 
I’m really just not sure how I could have gotten mareks.. the coop they’re in hasn’t had it in it before and I haven’t added anything new to my flock since spring and it’s all been added from a friend who has never had it before. I’ll try extra vitamins I think I’m going to end up taking her to the vet. I’ve thought about having her put down but I’ve just been trying everything because she does eat and drink and interact with me she just can’t move and just started this head thing.
 
I'm sorry to admit it looks like Marek's to me, too.

Marek's is so contagious and long lasting in the environment that it's very easy to bring it home to your flock on the soles of your shoes if you wear the same shoes in your run that you wore earlier to a feed store where other chicken owners have walked that didn't change their shoes from working in their runs.
 
The virus can also lie dormant in a chicken for months or years until a stressful event occurs to trigger it or it could travel on the wind or be carried in by wild birds. Your friend may have it in their flock and not know, just like you would not know if we were not suggesting it. Not all birds will display neurological symptoms or they may be very subtle like being unable to keep one eye fully open. Some birds die suddenly from it due to visceral tumours. Almost everyone who has had a flock for any length of time has had a chicken die suddenly and not got a necropsy done..... or perhaps have had a chicken go lame and then get better and just assume they hurt their leg coming down off the roost etc. These can all be signs of Marek's, so it is very easy to have the disease in your flock and not realise.
The video lends weight to the Marek's diagnosis for me too, but there is an outside chance that it might be caused by something else. The vitamin therapy suggested is about the only thing you can try, so worth giving it a go.
Even if she gets better, it unfortunately does not guarantee that it isn't Marek's, as some Marek's sufferers do recover from outbreaks.
Good luck and please report back with result of vet's visit if you decide to go that route.
 
I know my friend doesnt have it, however i COMPLETELY forgot about the birds i added in around august, but i didnt think anything of it as the lady is NPIP, HOWEVER, i bought 2 mottled cochin bantam hens, and an EE hen, and she gave me a "free" rooster, she was having a liquidation sale and i felt way overcharged for the chickens but thats besides the point, however one of the cochin hens just dropped dead as with the rooster..
 
So..... you think you have had a chick with Marek's before..... and you got birds from a breeder in August ..... and yet you have been struggling to believe or figure out how this might be Marek's! If your chick had Marek's then even if you put it down the virus would most likely still remain in your flock. NPIP certainly doesn't test for Marek's and small breeders do not generally follow the very strict biosecurity protocols that large hatcheries do to prevent infection. so that is another likely avenue of infection. I also do not think that you can rule out your friend's flock as the source quite so easily, but all this information is certainly adding weight to the probable Marek's diagnosis.
 
I can rule out my friends flock as all her birds came from a breeder that started out hatching her own eggs from someone and her house property had never had chickens on it before. my friend is not the source of mareks, believe me. if she was shed be having no birds at all. im not sure if the chick had mareks or not someone came into my job to drop off ducks that someone gave them and they had a chick that was having problems walking that i took. itd eat and drink fine, someone else suggested mareks but the bird was completely isolated from mine and i didnt go from touching it to touching my birds, either way the hen who has it now is a year and a half old and had never ever come into contact with that chick, in fact, none of my other birds had even come in contact with this hen before as she was on a completely different property than my birds and i didnt hardly even go over there. i do understand that NPIP doesnt test for mareks, however this lady was careful about not allowing people on her property as it was me and 3 other people there to get chickens and none of us were allowed into her backyard or to touch any bird she showed us. while this hen DOES show signs of mareks im really honestly still not even sure i could have gotten it. most of my birds are almost a year old (as that chick would have been), and the only problems i have had with birds dying are those mottled cochins. im really just looking for help with my hen and how to treat her not accusations on why im not sure how i could have had mareks. if you have no advice for what to do with my bird please move on. you have now mentioned multiple times that i am wrong with how i see mareks, and have only suggested putting my bird in a sling. if you have no other advice on treating it please move on instead of trying to tell me how i could have gotten it. the only important thing right now is that i possibly have it and need to help my hen.
 

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