I just found another dead poult. Normal starter food in the stomach.
Usually they have a distant stare and stand in one place the day before they die. Today no warning. I have found them with their legs twitching and we do have scorpions but the chickens keep the area pretty bug free inside and...
I did an autopsy and she had no eggs in the pipeline so why would she sit in a brooding box?
The breast meat was dark like a duck. She was 6# and seemed healthy.
Thanks for the input.
The problem this time was in the soil, it ate a grub that was to big to leave the stomach.
I live in the mountains in Panama so the local ag store gave me a syringe and told me to inject them, they were to small.
Another neighbor told me to put iodine in the sores (pox...
I had 8 born around Sept 22 and I found one dead 2 days ago and today another is down and I think it will die soon.
This is my third batch and none have lived past 3 months.
I am in Panama and my neighbors keep telling me you cant raise Pavo's here.
Are they that difficult?
I just found a hen dead in the box still warm. She was looking around for a spot the past two days and settled in yesterday. She had laid no eggs that I had seen.
I wonder if an older chicken killed her? Missing feathers from the back of her neck but no puncture wounds.
I am new to poultry...