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    why are you vegan/vegetarian/dairy free/vEGGan?

    Interesting! Thank you for sharing.
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    why are you vegan/vegetarian/dairy free/vEGGan?

    @1cock2hens I agree that PETA and other activists can exaggerate and even lie- which is certainly not ethical. But I believe that if we don't need to meat to survive then why kill? Obviously, our own lives and those of our species should always come first and foremost, but we should take other...
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    why are you vegan/vegetarian/dairy free/vEGGan?

    @rjohns39 Could you please explain how they go to sleep- do you use some sort of gas? Is it safe to eat them afterwards? Thanks
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    why are you vegan/vegetarian/dairy free/vEGGan?

    I always thought of vegans an unpractical, emotional bunch of hippies- that was until I started keeping my own chickens and had to kill the darling babies I'd hatched when they gang raped my girls. It broke my heart- but it had to be done or the girls would have died miserably. I've only been a...
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    Respiratory infection and growths on head

    Thank you @oldhenlikesdogs and @The Golden Egg5. I've just noticed that the worst of my turkeys has developed a cream coloured small-medium spot on the outer corner of his on the eye ball- it's definitely not a foreign object, it's some sort of growth. I don't think it's a symptom of wet pox...
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    Respiratory infection and growths on head

    Hi Wyorp Thank you for your reply. I've googled canker and they definitely don't have it. Could the growths be a cancer?
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    Respiratory infection and growths on head

    Thank you for replying Old hen. Initially I also thought it was foul pox, but the fact that that none of my other poultry have it and that it's the middle of winter in South Africa which means no mosquitoes is confounding ha
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    Respiratory infection and growths on head.

    My 6 month old turkeys have symptoms extremely similar to fowl pox- they have yellow growths on their heads that turn black and crusty, smelly, thick, clear discharge from nostrils and one of them has red swollen sinuses and one watery eye. However, it's winter in South Africa and there's no...
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    Respiratory infection and growths on head

    My 6 month old turkeys have symptoms extremely similar to fowl pox- they have yellow growths on their heads that turn black and crusty, smelly, thick, clear discharge from nostrils and one of them has red swollen sinuses and one watery eye. However, it's winter in South Africa and there's no...
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    "Sleepy eyes" turkey chicks. HELP!

    Hi eggcessive Thank you sooooo much for taking the time to help. Yes, my turkeys are behaving normally, save for the odd crash into the walls ( poor things, they still can't see properly). Do you have any idea how or why they would get it?
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    "Sleepy eyes" turkey chicks. HELP!

    I don't think they sell Tylan in South Africa. But I did give my turkeys Doxyclip 50%, on the packaging it refers to the treatment of bacterial respiratory and gastrointestinal problems- do you think this will help with MG?
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    "Sleepy eyes" turkey chicks. HELP!

    Hi Eggceasive Thank you for taking the time to reply- I really appreciate it! The brooder has a plastic mesh floor so most of the droppings fall to a tray below which I change often. They do have some wheat straw sprinkles around on the floor. There doesn't seem to be any bubbles in their eyes...
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    "Sleepy eyes" turkey chicks. HELP!

    I have 10, sweet, 4 wk old turkey chicks. All seemed to be going well until, a week ago, the turkey's eyes started to look 'sleepy'. On a closer inspection i saw that the skin around the eye was thick and orange, causeing their eyes to close. At first i thought they had a respiratory infection...
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    Mother turkeys-are they any good?

    Thank you! I think I will have to separate them next time.
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    Mother turkeys-are they any good?

    Hi! As summer is here where I live my turkeys have gone into broody mode. All seemed well until hatching day came....mother and chicks seemed to be getting on swimmingly, but when i came back to check them a few hours later one chick was dead! Its body seemed compressed as if it had been...
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