The first one I would have already culled.
I didn’t notice his feet when he came out I’ve never had a poult with a deformity like that but now that I see it happens I’ll be more observant when I transfer from incubators to brooders. I dunno when that deformity forms but the last few days of incubation my humidity went haywire for some reason never had that happen in my nurture right. I know that affected the stuck poult he had hatching issues before he was stuck. I ended up with 15 poults out of 18 eggs.
I think @Bantambird has a special turkey (Two Toes) that the foot problem was caused by a situation in her incubator.
indeed, Two Toes was an incubator mishap. She was allowed to live because she was able to walk normally. She was a little wobbly right at the start, because she is missing her outside toe on one side and the tow on the other outside tow is bent, but the incubator had a brief mishap where it temperature spiked a few hours when the sensor accidentally touched the metal trays. There were two other poults from that batch I had to cull. One had no legs at all, looked like a little turkey slug, and another had no feet, only stumps. Two Toes has been a successful turkey mother, is a good size adult Narraganset now. she is 3 years old.
