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So I promised some update pics...it has now officially gotten weirder. Went out and cornered him (I think anyway...) and scooped him up to check it out. Looked the same as yesterday but when I poked at it with a finger it felt flat. Little bit of manipulation and this came loose. First image...

Yeah, I am going to wait till he/she has a full day of antibiotics in their system then poke it. Was really hoping to just find a bot fly larvae and pull it out but as hard as it is, I am thinking bot fly is unlikely. I will post some pic updates tomorrow when I check it. I am learning that...

Seems to be called parasitic twin maybe?

I am finding zero info so far online. Do you happen to know what the treatment is? Seems feather cyst is surgical removal...not sure if I can find a vet that will even see them much less do the surgery. Might be my wife and I having to do it...won't be the first surgery we have done.

It did have small feather tips coming out of it 2 days ago...now I see nothing but the black...thing

Would that have shown up earlier or would now be a normal time to start to manifest? They are 7 weeks old this week.

So, now our new turkey flock has another...thing... When we brought our 3 bourbon reds home, I noticed one had a little dark "spot" on it's head. No biggie just figured it was feathers. Fast forward a week and that spot looks like this: These pics were Monday (just got them moved to comp so...

Kind of a resurrection of a post but wanted to pass on an update. Our third and final remaining Narraganset seems to have made it through *knock on wood*. She hasn't shown any real symptoms the whole time anyway but after her antibiotic rounds she is back to 50/50 black/dark diarrhea to normal...

Do you know if this recommendation would be for an area where a sick turkey has been but that has never had chickens? I am mainly concerned that since the sick one was in this new pen, I have contaminated it via droppings. I did move them a few days AFTER she was dewormed with safeguard though.

Thanks for the links! That's the stuff I was reading when I first realized it was blackhead but finding things in the forums a second time can be tough! I bookmarked it this time. I was finally able to find the metronidazole without having to have a prescription and have some on the way to the...

We are new to turkeys this year. I promised my wife after we moved and had space, I would get her turkeys. We settled on wanting heritage breeds and chose to go with the Narragansett. We bought 3 birds that were supposed to be 8 weeks or so old and put them in a new 19x11 pen on Aug 3rd. about a...

New member to BYC but 6 year lurker. We have a serious problem with chicken math so our numbers just keep climbing! We currently have a bantam flock and a full size flock. Our bantam flock (9 birds) is a mix of random genetics with lots of silkie and frizzle. Our "big girls" are a wellsummer, 2...