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    Aspirin question for turkeys

    Hey there! I have a bunch of turkeys, mostly heritage, but I have three 3.5 year old broad breasted turkeys that are very dear to my heart. They're all in good health, but two of them have some joint inflammation and general soreness. For a while, I gave them 7.5mg of Meloxicam three or four...
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    Need urgent help!

    One of my Spanish black heritage turkeys has alarming wounds all over the back of the head. They seemed to have appeared overnight. I'm very concerned about disease, because I have 4 pet turkeys that live in a separate coop. However, this turkey is in a coop with 20 other heritage turkeys who...
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    Ailing drake - please help

    We have a Cayuga drake on our farm, he's about 4 months old. He'd been doing great ( already bigger than our 2yo runners and khakis), but within the last few days he's shown some concerning symptoms. I guess anytime an animal experiences symptoms suddenly, it's cause for concern. We've had high...
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    Black mark

    Our beloved Tom, Mr. Bronze, has a strange black scab/mark that seems to have recently appeared - last night or today. It looks a lot like frostbite, and, admittedly they're in a pretty drafty and chilly coop right now. We did have a severe cold spell, but I've been keeping heat lamps on our 4...
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    Duckling emergency

    We are fairly new at raising ducks. This is our second year. We have 12 Cayuga ducks, about 1.5 months old. We're planning to breed them. Early last week, one of them had a seizure right in front of us, very suddenly. It went from playing with its fellow duckies to rolling around on the ground...
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    Cayuga duck harvest

    At how many weeks, roughly, do people generally slaughter their Cayuga ducks? I've read Pekins are lightening fast, but it's been really tough to find anything about Cayugas for meat.
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    Introduction

    Little doe homestead is a small farm in Vermont run by Laura and David. We have about 40 chickens. We also raise ducks, turkeys, geese, guinea fowl, rabbits and sheep. We have farmed recreationally for about 13 years and have been in business for 2. Interested in all poultry topics! .
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