Rural Gardening: A major question on chichen disease, 1 by kassy_51

kassy_51 wrote:
Hi,
We have a chicken that I thought maybe had Marek's disease. Now I'm not so sure as so what it had. Has anyone known a chicken to survive Marek's disease?
Both of it's feet were paralized. It is a rooster, and it's top notch didn't grow. It looked more like a hen. It looked like its foot was swollen at the joint were the paralysis started on it. It ended up losing both of it's feet, and now has growen it's top notch and does look like a rooster. And even without feet, he gets around like you wouldn't believe. Wing power!
We did lose one beautiful Araucana roo to the the same thing, another Araucana hen had the same problems with the feet being paralized and starting to fall off. My boyfriend felt sorry for her when he saw the foot was falling off and put her out of her misery. :( The one that we still have, well his feet feel off when my boyfriend didn't know about it. And since he is doing so much better, he is still living.
None of these chickens were vaccinated, as we are pretty new to rasing chickens and didn't know about it.
Any ideas anyone?
Meet Footless as we call him.