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    Please Help me with Merriam's turkey poults

    Brill! thanks again.
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    Please Help me with Merriam's turkey poults

    thank you! the taurine or whatever doesn't matter?
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    Please Help me with Merriam's turkey poults

    I have 5, and I've had them on chick starter 20% protein. they've seemed to be doing okay but I just read I'm supposed to feed them higher protein. I don't have a higher protein available. should I add meal worms or something to their daily ration? I just came across these and was not...
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    Baby chicks, huge crops....

    i had never noticed this before... is there anything we can/should do to help with this? yogurt or something to help them digest stuff easier/faster?
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    Not Spraddle Leg... but chick can't get feet under him.

    yes, it seemed to hold it up... kept the legs right under so when it pushed whichever way it wouldn't flop over or upside down.
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    Not Spraddle Leg... but chick can't get feet under him.

    not a tight one... just ... hmmm... I wish I had taken a picture. i cut the toe off and just kinda stuffed it in with it's legs under him.
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    Not Spraddle Leg... but chick can't get feet under him.

    it ended up being fine. it walked backwards a lot when it finally was standing and then suddenly we couldn't tell it apart from the other ones. I did put it in a sock to hold it upright until it was putting it's legs under itself and then treated it like spraddle leg. with the bandaids etc...
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    Not Spraddle Leg... but chick can't get feet under him.

    well chickie is up on it's legs now at least but only really goes backwards. poor thing. I will give it some more time to blend in with the rest.
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    Not Spraddle Leg... but chick can't get feet under him.

    well, I'm afraid I'm going to have to cull this little one. there's no improvement at all and it's already starting to get picked on... it can't get to food and water on it's own, or even out of the heat source. i will try spraddle leg binding just in case that helps but I don't think it will.
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    Not Spraddle Leg... but chick can't get feet under him.

    so it hatched in the night and was unfortunately stuck upside down for a long period of time.... so for a while I couldn't get him to right himself. I put him in a sock and he is now staying up right but he's pushing his legs straight out in front of himself and can kind of move around but...
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    I'm trying lockdown... need reassurance.

    I did a warm damp towel over the opening that I would lift aside... broke down and took out the 14 that were in there. :) then I crumpled up the warm damp towel and put it on the bottom of the 'bator.
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    I'm trying lockdown... need reassurance.

    How do you prevent excess moisture loss? any tips on that? last time I did the more hand's on 4 little ones got shrink wrapped. :( I got them out safely but still... I'm now very worried about that too.
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    I'm trying lockdown... need reassurance.

    I've been reading so much that people's hatch rates are better with lockdown... I'm so torn. I want better hatch rates but I don't like all the extra shells and movement in there. I mean, Momma Hen takes out the shells and also sits on them so they're not so rambunctious.
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    I'm trying lockdown... need reassurance.

    so I want to wait until tonight to take out the hatched chicks... but that will be in the 48 hr range. It feels like a long time for the first little one to be in the hatcher. will it be okay? I know they say 24-72 hours after hatch they're fine without food and water but that's a huge...
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    Hands on hatching and help

    Thank you @RavynFallen I will do that... he's in the little 'bator now having some "me time" hoping he will stretch out. there's one more to go... there were 4 shrink wrapped... :/ 2 were fine with a little help zipping, then him and one more I'm slowly working on... we thought it was...
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