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Hope This Saves A Turkey From Blackhead
Yes. Thank you. I did come across this thread. Helpful information. Hopefully I can save the remaining. I just looked at them and they seem fine...active and normal. -
Turkey sick?? - Green/Yellow poop/lethargic
He recovered fine. We put a fan in the run (he'd sit in front of it). But I know it had been really hot for us. This year, the heat doesn't bother him as much it seems. I do know that poop can be a sign of other things. I've been just reading about it because we are having issues... -
Hope This Saves A Turkey From Blackhead
This topic is still relevant. :) I came here looking for insight. We have lost 2 turkey poults (8 weeks old) in the last 48 hours. I suspect Blackhead or cocci. Our flock is mixed with chickens, but has been for almost 3 years, and never had issues. BUT I did have an animal caretaker... -
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Reintroducing poults to hen?
Thanks guys! Very detailed info. I didn't figure the slip-at-night trick would work with turkeys. They don't seem to have the same level of night-time-stupor that chickens get. R2Elk - your suggestions about moving the hen/poults...that was how we had PLANNED to do it. We had a dog kennel... -
Reintroducing poults to hen?
We had one of our Royal Palm turkey hens surprise us and hatch 15 poults! but where she set up the nest was not a safe place on our property. We had hoped to move her (bad mistake on our part really). It didn’t go so well. I wanted to do it at dusk, but my husband was impatient. Long... -
What did you do in the garden today?
I picked 2 cantaloupe melons...first ones of the season. One more still in the garden. Yum! Picked a bucket full of cucumbers (this is about the 4th or 5th bucket I've harvested...getting tired of cucumbers!! haha. Some of them were too big for pickles though, so I cut them and give them... -
Weird things only poultry people get.
When my teens were a few years younger (mid teens), their friends would come over and they would want to see the chickens and turkeys. When they'd see the roosters....doing "what roosters do" with the hens....they'd be like "Oh my gosh! They are fighting!!" We just laughed. My youngest...- esavvymom
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- Forum: Random Ramblings
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Turkey sick?? - Green/Yellow poop/lethargic
I hope so. It's too hot to have to deal with a massive clean in the coops :) And that crazy bird is my husband's "pet" (right down to giving him "scritches" on the head). Me...not a fan, but he's a good breeder so far. -
Turkey sick?? - Green/Yellow poop/lethargic
I just went out and put a bowl of food and a fresh tomato next to him. He was sitting right next to the water (hopefully he was drinking too). When I opened the door, he got up and walked away and is now sitting on the other side of the chicken coop run in the shade....so he's moving... -
Turkey sick?? - Green/Yellow poop/lethargic
I noticed my tom turkey (royal palm) is acting odd today. Mind you, the heat is high - 93-94 degrees with heat index of 102-104. He is sitting in the corner of his small run area, back to the door, breathing/panting. That in itself isn't so unusual given the heat I guess...they are all... -
Halloween/Thanksgiving Hatch-a-Long 2019
I didn’t intend to have any chicks/poults hatch for this month, but it happened! We didn’t know our turkey hen was sitting on any in the coop. But now we have 2! These are pics of one we had to rescue from near death. Three total born, but one already died, one other survived, and then...- esavvymom
- Post #806
- Forum: Hatch-A-Longs
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What temperature is it where you live?
I think we got to about 60 today. So nice!! Just two weeks ago we were still in the upper 90s!- esavvymom
- Post #1,723
- Forum: Random Ramblings
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Introducing a poult back to its mom
Right now, we have mom and baby in the coop alone. The Tom and the guineas have been ousted into the larger chicken coop and run (they end up in their half the time anyway). Do you think the babies and mom would be ok alone then? We travel a lot for hockey, so I just can’t have a brooder...