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    Help with baby chick leg issue

    My baby turkey is having a leg.Issue. she cannot stand and falls over with her leg sticking straight out. She's unable to stand so cannot eat or drink without my help. Any ideas? I also need to know how much to feed her as i've only given her about five pellets today of baby chick food.
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    Netting suggestion?

    Does anyone have any experience with this? https://www.gourock.com/KNNPB364.html 4 inch grid. That might do the trick.
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    Netting suggestion?

    Yes, something like that is possible though I don't know if it would work? My fear is independent cables would all sag to different levels and it wouldnt end up working. In my head I see some sort of bird netting with a far bigger grid pattern, but my limited searching failed to find...
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    Netting suggestion?

    I have an area that I'd like to expand my turkey flock in during the day. It's a 'tunnel'/aisle about 10-15 ft wide from a structure to a chain link fence. When I let my turkeys out in it without any top coverage they often hop the fence into my neighbor's yard which is a problem because we then...
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    Normal or confused Tom?

    Feel odd spending so much on chicken clothes but I don't mind supporting someone here running a business. Glad to get them!
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    Normal or confused Tom?

    Finally got these on our ladies and I'm about to order more. Didn't realize how many ladies were getting too much 'attention'.
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    Normal or confused Tom?

    Ok I just bought a bunch. Wasn't really sure what color was what so just sort of went for it. I've been horrified by some of our poor hens sunburns and this seems the humane option. Let me know if you ever make more. Some of the out of stock patterns were quite pretty
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    Normal or confused Tom?

    I had no idea, and we've hatched before. Don't know why I've never seen it... Shocking. One lady seemed okay with the massage, the other clearly was unhappy. We recently re-joined the tom with our poults. Do we need to be concerned.
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    Normal or confused Tom?

    Oh wow. We have a few hens (chickens) that have missing feathers and sun burn. Your saddles might work... How long can we leave those on a hen?
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    Normal or confused Tom?

    Our Tom was standing on multiple Jennies this morning, doing a sort of back massage. The Jennies did not seem to enjoy it. Is this normal? Failed mating? Does this Tom simply not understand the turkeys and the bees?
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    Worm in water identification?

    Ok, I'm less worried they are parasites then. If I see them again I'll try to get a better pic
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    Worm in water identification?

    This water is primarily for our livestock but I just cleaned it out and there were a couple hundred of these worms on the bottom. I don't know if they are some sort of intestinal parasite that I need to be super concerned about or if they're just some sort of water bug maggot. Any help is...
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    Broody disaster, need advice...

    Whoops, wrong thread. Anyway, update, our momma is very happy with ten baby chicks we bought her from the store.
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    Are turkey chicks more fragile than chickens?

    We have around 20 eggs in the incubator, most if not all failed (we did hatch a bunch, just nowhere near what we hoped for). Like i said, it was a rough one... I dont know which cheeped. Not sure how to find out, or what to do. Do I candle the 20 again? We've also struggled with candling...
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    Advice for possible late stage hatch issues?

    Yes, we ended up with a staggered hatch despite our best efforts not to. We even bought a second incubator trying to avoid it
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    Are turkey chicks more fragile than chickens?

    This was extremely helpful. We have some other hens still laying so may do another round soon. We lost so many developed eggs this year, it was quite hard. Just knowing we were probably doing something wrong. I think our humidity was too high, because I think they did get too large. I'm...
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    Are turkey chicks more fragile than chickens?

    We separated out all of our Jenny's and Tom's into a different run. The only two hens in the run are the mama ones on their clutches. One mama was on her eggs maybe a week or two longer I don't remember exactly. Once the first baby hatched, the other Mama that had been on her eggs for less...
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    Are turkey chicks more fragile than chickens?

    We raised Narragansett last year and are doing our first hatch. We had two broody mamas each with a clutch a clutch plus an incubator. One of our mamas gave up halfway through and we split the eggs between the other mama and our already near full incubator. We've hatched far less than we...
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    Advice for possible late stage hatch issues?

    I can't really tell with this incubator. It just shows temp and humidity, but to see the water level I'd really need to take the top off
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    Advice for possible late stage hatch issues?

    Should we add any water to get humidity up it's only at 58 percent, but unlike our smaller incubator this one always drops when we add water before it goes up. (Our other incubator starts going up the second you add water)
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