5 dead turkeyts in 6 days...help please

[triplejfarm]

help....
my son has 2 month old turkeys that have been doing great.... we came home one day to one that was breathing very labored.. I figured pneumonia.. we had been very hot and it got cold and wet in one day....

turkey was dead by next morning... we noticed another breathing hard and it was dead in a few hours...

everything waqs going ok.... turkeys looked better... but we noticed a bright yellow... diarehea....
turkeys still looked better, now 5 days later, came home from work to two turkeys not looking so good... both seemed to stagger and look lost..both died within 20 min of each other......
we have 4 turkeys left.... what to do...??? they seem fine and healthy.... but then again so did the others.....
we havae cleaned out all the shavings... and put new down, cleaned water buckets.....
there is a guinea with the turkeys,... coudl he be causing this..??
help please.....

 

[mnferalkitty]

coccidia, blackhead disease do research on these and see if they fit the symptoms yours had. I would start antibiotics in the water asap and probiotic powder sprinkled on the food. Also to much heat can cause death I don't know if you still have them in a brooder or not?

 

[triplejfarm]

no brooder they are about 14 lbs now..... I thought about blackhead, will it kill a turkey that quick..?

they seem perfectly fine one day, .... and they next kind of stumbling.... then dead within a few hours.... we watched two of them die... fell over.... jerked and dead.....