so this hand is four or five months old she wasn't  from my flock she's from one of my neighbors and  

we think she has Marek's disease some of the signs  are paralysis of the legs wings and neck loss of  

weight there's a few different versions of Marik's  disease one will affect their eyes their eyes will  

go gray or black but her eyes both look totally  normal so she doesn't have that version but she  

cannot move her legs at all she's not egg bound  like you can feel right in here around her vent  

she's just super super skinny there's literally  nothing there and if she were egg bound she'd  

at least be able to move her legs let's see some  of the other stuff skin around feather follicles  

are raised and roughened things like that there's  some post-mortem things we could do if we wanted  

to dig into her body after we dispatch her but I  don't care to do that let's see so really the only  

thing you can do for a hen or any chicken that you  have that has Marek's disease is to basically just  

dispatch him she's literally handicapped she  cannot move at all she's trying to move away  

from me but she can only move her head her wings  are barely moving it's really quite sad her crop  

is totally empty I've set some food for her and  she won't eat at all I didn't see any evidence  

of mites which is the other thing that would make  a chicken behave like this I believe mites that  

disease looks and acts like the only thing we can  do you can vaccinate birds for Marek's disease  

when their day or two old if you do mail-order  chickens you can do that it's like five cents  

a bird to get them vaccinated but unless they're  vaccinated once they get Marek's disease there's  

nothing you can do but dispatch them so we're  gonna do that humanely they say the meats fine  

to eat after that but we're not gonna do that  we're just gonna take care of her anyways if  

your Birds acting like this and literally cannot  move that's the possible problem you can take  

them to a vet spend a bunch of money or dispatch  them give me your thoughts thanks for watching  

so I'm putting this video together and I thought  I should talk about a hen when they're egg bound  

and the difference between an egg bound hen and  a hen with Marek's disease an egg bound hen will  

still be able to move their legs they'll typically  be able to walk it's definitely probably more of  

a waddle look compared to the way they normally  walk around you can see when I'm touching that  

hen how her legs just absolutely do not move  she can barely move her wings she'd been like  

this for about 48 hours they said which is kind  of a bummer I mean if if the hens egg bound you  

can feel back by their vent and it you can feel  if there's an egg there and to take care valve  

what you would do is you just get a large bucket  that the hen can lay in or sit in fill it with  

warm water a little bit warmer to the touch than  what we as humans like you know like you could  

probably go right around a hundred degrees or so  on the water and set the Hin in there with some  

Epsom salt let her soak her back in she's gonna  try and stand up and flutter wings if she's egg  

bound but keep her vent and her backside under  the water let her soak for about 20 minutes  

when you bring her out of the water you want a  cleaner vent area maybe get a paper towel with  

some vegetable oil and put that around her vent to  keep it from being dry and chapped and sore make  

it more flexible I guess you you do not want to  squish that egg if you feel an egg inside of her  

that's bound don't squish that egg and break  it that wouldn't help the situation you could  

do that for like two or three days if after the  second day there's nothing happening maybe take  

her to a vet or take care of her another way but  that's the difference between an egg bound hand  

and a hand with Marek's disease an egg bound  him will still be able to move her legs she'll  

be able to move her wings around all she wants  she'll be able to walk even though it's gonna  

be a very different walk she'll be incredibly  uncomfortable and the Marek's disease bird is  

just absolutely paralyzed there's nothing you can  do for a bird that has Marek's disease I might put  

some picture and I'm not I'm not gonna do that  if you want you can google what the insides and  

the organs of a chicken look like with Marek's  disease it was clear this bird was not healthy  

it was not gonna live we just dispatched her  but it is Marek's disease is highly contagious  

it's passed through dander and dust off the birds  things like that so if you have a hen or rooster  

that you think has Marek's disease separate  it from your flock you'll have to watch all  

the other birds I believe you can vaccinate as  adults as well but it would take up to two weeks  

for that vaccination to take effect so I don't  know if that's gonna help at all at that point  

but anyways thanks for watching hit subscribe if  you would share it if you have friends that have

small flocks large flocks  whatever anyways have a good one