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    turkey with fowl pox wont eat

    okay, everything should be clean now (hopefully) , i also dewormed my chickens and tipped over any containers they may have been sharing water out of i think i have an idea of how this happened but due to talon (the turkey) pooping around he has contaminated the dirt around the area he lives...
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    turkey with fowl pox wont eat

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    turkey with fowl pox wont eat

    he seems a lot better, he perked up a lot yesterday but we were worried it was just temporary, hes been eating on his own again, not much but i think it’ll come to him hes walking around and chirping, his head has returned to its nice pink colour and is no longer purple, and hes holding his...
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    turkey with fowl pox wont eat

    update: hes somehow still kicking, just barely i think i thought he was gonna die last night for some reason, my brain was telling me to say goodbye to him before bed just incase but miraculously he was still alive and i had gotten a response from the vets we finally got some metronidazole but...
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    turkey with fowl pox wont eat

    im not sure i can get anything like that, drug laws are very harsh in new zealand i would have to take him to a vet to get a prescription for him. how good does this work? i may be able to scrounge up some money for him but i cant spend hundreds just for him to die later on :(
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    turkey with fowl pox wont eat

    i dont think it is, but im unsure we have wild turkeys around and ive never seen any of them have issues, never even seen a dead one around.
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    turkey with fowl pox wont eat

    he has started eating more this morning it seems, he ate about 6-ish full mouthfuls of crumb per his choice (which isn’t a lot but he wasnt eating anything by choice the first day i noticed something was off) i picked up the tub and he immediately came to me to eat so hopefully this is a good...
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    turkey with fowl pox wont eat

    my turkey has fowl pox and will not eat anything, hes a little lethargic and im very worried that hes going to die. his pox has progressed to where its beginning to dry up and scab a little so im hoping its near its end but i cant tell, ive looked down his throat and theres no lesions on the...
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    TURKEY - Fowl pox (help)

    yeah, ill try and get some better pictures he just refuses to stay still unfortunately i do believe it is fowl pox, just starting on his skin
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    TURKEY - Fowl pox (help)

    hell yall, i have a 12week old turkey (roughly) hes a lone turkey i raised (look at other posts for the back story as to why i have one singlular wild turkey, i live in new zealand, it is not illegal.) i noticed little yellow spots on his head today, 2 near his nasal cavity in his skull...
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    poop problems? (7 weeks)

    yeah i dont ever feed my chickens these things, only ACV for the occasional sour crop, they get some veges here and there like cabbage and sometimes pumpkin if the pigs dont eat it we dont typically have pet or commercial turkeys in new zealand that i know about, if people want turkey they...
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    poop problems? (7 weeks)

    thank you for telling me that about the garlic, ive seen a lot of people saying to feed garlic for parasites and such along with apple cider vinegar in their water and chilli flakes i am aware chickens are silent carriers but i feel i would have found atleast something in the atleast 5 years...
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    poop problems? (7 weeks)

    hi all, i have a 7 week old wild turkey (i took him in after i found him alone at a day old with no family around), i ahve no experience with turkeys and only with chickens. this poop he is producing is worrying me, i dont believe its blackheads disease but it could be. i cannot take him to a...
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    Green/infected eye from injury - help!

    if he ends up blind but fine i will probably keep him is the issue, i dont have a definitive answer on whether im gonna get rid of him or not ill try the saline though
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    Green/infected eye from injury - help!

    no unfortunately i dont, would just saline help at all do you think?
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