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    Apparent beak decay (?) in turkey poults

    I use a white vinegar solution to clean their feeders and waterers, but I’ve always been thorough in rinsing them out with pure tap water. I do see them often pick through their shavings, but it is all pine so I don’t see how that could scratch them up
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    Apparent beak decay (?) in turkey poults

    woke up today to find one of the poults with scabs on one of the poults’ beaks; I haven’t seen the poults apparently bully or peck at each other much, so I’m genuinely at a loss as to what’s happening with them. my immediate thought is that this is in some way related to the “beak decay” but...
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    Apparent beak decay (?) in turkey poults

    Right now I am using an Aqua Culture heatlamp with a Satco BR40 reflector bulb suspended about 12” above one side their enclosure. The new waterer has leg attachments that brings it up to height, luckily. No, they just have the plastic walls of their enclosure, though two of the panels are...
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    Apparent beak decay (?) in turkey poults

    Not as far as I am aware; they came to me with apparently full beaks like this:
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    Apparent beak decay (?) in turkey poults

    Hey guys, I’m a first-time poultry keeper who got my hands on my first group of turkey poults last monday on the 28th. Coming straight from the hatchery, they looked good and have been brooding pretty well up until today when I noticed that, while cleaning out their litter, a large part of their...
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