Recent content by Ourlittlehollow

We have hatched 3/4 of our turkey eggs with a hatch/survival rate of 75%. A few died just before hatching inside the egg and a few died within 48 hours of hatching. The tape shoes worked well to correct the clubbed feet, for some we left the shoes on 24 hours and for others 36. Poly-vi-sol drops...

We ended up with an 80% hatch rate with these poults. They are Blue Slate and Lavender Slate with Ridley Bronze gene. They took over 30 hours to completer their hatch. I gave them some Poly-vi-sol drops as son as they finished and had rested in the hopes of preventing the club-feet/flipping...

I will if I don't get the blue red bronze I am looking for from the turkey eggs we have to hatch. Likely we will have to cross back to blue to achieve the colour pattern we want.

This is our Ridley Bronze Poult with Blue Slate gene. Doing really well. 6 Days Old.

I made shoes for both poults, propped them in a paper towel doughnut, in a bowl. Fed them by hand and gave poly-vi-sol drops. One had a full recovery, straight feet within 24 hours and no more flipping over. The smaller and weaker one made no progress and was having difficulty breathing and...

Had to cull our little black slate poult today. It was really struggling to breath and starting to become emaciated. I couldn't let it suffer anymore, it was clear that despite our best efforts it would not survive and we were prolonging the inevitable. I have slaughtered plenty of chickens and...

That curious pup is our old man dog zach. He watches them, all day and all night. When they started to peep inside the incubator he came and got me as if something might be wrong with the chicks! Its cute. He is a rescued red heeler. I would assume based on his behaviour with our livestock that...

I moved our stronger Turkey to the brooder and s/he is doing great. No more flipping over, feet are straight and strong. Little one is the same today, no change. These are three of our orpington crosses: far right is one week older than the bantam and standard on the left. Partridge Cochin...

Two of three Poults hatched. Both had clubfoot and were flipping over on their backs spontaneously. We used poly-vi-sol drops for both combined with electrolytes. The both became stable but their feet were/are an issue. I made shoes for the stronger of the two, left them on a day and stood him...

Two turkey poults hatched today, both with club feet. Will vitamins be enough to fix it or should I attempt to make them "chicken shoes" out of clear tape? Any Advice is greatly appreciated. Thank You.

Turkey poults hatched. I helped them enough so that they could get their head and wing out of the shell but their body and legs, they had to do that themselves. Poults are not like chicks. My chicks were standing within an hour, the poults are flopping around like a drunk person on the floor...

Thanks for the suggestion. I could likely rigg something for next time to boil water on my bbq outside.