I have a small flock of Bourbon Red (7) and Royal Palm (10) Turkeys. My birds are kept separated during breeding season and allowed to free range on an alternating schedule. They are happy, healthy and laying well, very tame and spoiled rotten. All eggs are shipped priority mail with tracking...
My Bourbon Reds and Royal Palms give me an egg at least every other day. the eggs are typically larger than chicken eggs and my girls' eggs are speckled. When they first start laying the eggs tend to be smaller and "get up to size" as the bird matures. Both my breeds like to sneak off (we free...
We just use warm water to clean them up when it happens which is not very often. If you let it go too long it will cause the bird to get lethargic. Clean it up, give vitamin water and keep an eye on him.
I've seem this a few times myself. We frequently show them the high protein chick starter/grower and dip there beaks in for vitamin water every chance we get. We keep newborns on vitamin water for at least the first couple weeks. Hope they pull through for you.
I have a small flock of Bourbon Red (8) and Royal Palm (12) Turkeys. My birds are kept separated during breeding season and allowed to free range on an alternating schedule. They are happy, healthy and laying well, very tame and spoiled rotten. Due to the small number of birds, I can only take...
I keep them confined for a month and then let them out with the others. I do this for all my free ranging birds (chickens, turkeys and ducks) Haven't lost one yet.
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I agree. I've found that these birds (we have chickens, turkeys and ducks), both pre and post hatch are CONSIDERABLY less fragile than we were led to believe from posts and books.