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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
- Post #495
- 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... -
Introducing a poult back to its mom
Thank you! We will give it a go tomorrow. My son doesn’t want to of course....I think that 20 minutes that he held the little one to his chest to keep it warm, he got attached. -
Introducing a poult back to its mom
I have a new poult that I had to rescue from certain death after it was born. One had already died....I think trampled. This one was close, and the third was ok. Mom was fighting off some male guineas who were in her space. We got mom and baby in it’s own space and rescued the little one... -
aggressive at 6 weeks
I am with those who vote to cull it now. We have three roosters, and wish we had done that with at least one of them. He is a sneak-attacker. Now I’m wondering if it’s because we hatched him and he was in the house for his first month (we use an old aquarium). We literally carry a weapon...- esavvymom
- Post #32
- Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
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My puppy is my peeps new predator!
We used a shock collar...at the lowest setting even. It only took a couple of times, along with key words. In our case, we said “no birds!” It worked very well. She was left loose in the yard, along with the birds. EXCEPT, we later discovered that our dog mistook what the roosters...- esavvymom
- Post #43
- Forum: Predators and Pests
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(Well-meaning) human predators in the chicken run, Oh No!
I just read this thread and had to say that I love how the story ended and had a great laugh at the sign. We are going to use that sign for our place....only we may have to add a turkey (we have two royal palms...one is a Tom, and he runs the place. It’s so bad he and my husband have...- esavvymom
- Post #138
- Forum: Predators and Pests