I looked around this morning and found some yellow poop in the pen; not wet/viscous yellow poop (obvious blackhead indicator), but yellowish hard poop nuggets; is that still a sign of blackhead?
I can't get Fish Zole (metronidzazole) in any local stores (I've called three places), and not on...
So what does one pierce it with? This seems like an Incredible Doctor Pol moment (from the Nat Geo Wild TV channel); he's always lancing parts of animals, either to release air (for bloat) or pus (from a swollen mass of infection).
I should add (regarding avian influenza) that the turkeys have always shared a small building (an old milkhouse) with three geese, and the geese are perfectly healthy, showing no signs of sickness at all.
That's very helpful—thank you! No, no sign of injuries whatsoever to the two hens that died; that's why it was such a mystery. And this tom has always been pretty clumsy trying to breed; he usually never even managed to mount the hens because he's so large and clumsy—only once that I actually...
Hi all,
My two turkey hens simply dropped dead in the past week, and I now am concerned about my tom. They did not appear to be sickly (nothing overtly obvious, though the second one did look a bit "puffy" the last two days before being found dead in the coop this morning). Neither of them...