Viable treatment for Marek's Disease.

[RoyalChick]

I bought these for my sick girl; do you have any insight on how much I should be giving her? Each capsule is 250mg

Sorry. No idea. I don’t think there is much risk of doing harm so I wouldn’t worry too much!

 

[milksheikh]

Sorry. No idea. I don’t think there is much risk of doing harm so I wouldn’t worry too much!

Okay, thanks so much for the quick response. I guess I’m just making sure there’s not a thing of overdosing with this? Like it’s 90% baicalin. And think most of the replies I was seeing was talking about skullcaps. But you’re saying it won’t do much harm to give the 250 capsule? Even if you don’t know; thanks so much for the response!

 

[RoyalChick]

Okay, thanks so much for the quick response. I guess I’m just making sure there’s not a thing of overdosing with this? Like it’s 90% baicalin. And think most of the replies I was seeing was talking about skullcaps. But you’re saying it won’t do much harm to give the 250 capsule? Even if you don’t know; thanks so much for the response!

Well I have given mine a couple of capsules (same product) shared between a couple of them. So I have no idea of what the dose should be, but I am very confident a capsule won’t do them any harm.

 

[Gigi1983]

I bought these for my sick girl; do you have any insight on how much I should be giving her? Each capsule is 250mg

Dose is 500mg x twice daily and may need to continue for anything from 1-4 weeks until symptoms reverse. Then she'd need to be kept on a reduced daily maintenance dose for the rest of her days.

 

[June18]

Three days ago I noticed one of my legacy hens wasn't her usual active self. She was off roost and huddling near a nest box. I let her be incase she was coming back into lay. That evening, she was still there. I brought her in for observation.

Her crop had a smal lump in it. I gave her some water and broke it up. I then tempted her with fresh corn and some fish. She ate fairly well, but didn't finish.

She roamed around being somewhat active and roosted well for the night.

Yesterday around mid-day she started to decline. I contacted an Avian Specialist, he was supposed to be here tomorrow. Lady passed during the night.

I've been discussing her passing and he says her symptoms and with her history, she passed from a heavy parasite load.

I'm having a consult with a parasite specialist.

Both say it's not Marek's. (I was sweating it ya'll). She has symptoms that are non-Marek's.

In the meantime, I'm off to battle worms.

I'm going to be taking a two day course to learn to identify parasites, what will and will not treat them and how to perform fecal floats at home. I really think fecal float education and Training should be in a BYC keepers reach. Or that fecal floats more easily obtained.

I think I'm going to make that happen.

Let us all know what you learned!