Oh yeah that site!! Can you believe that poor turkey?
Mine weren't that bad, thankfully. Just every top of a carbuncle had scab, and some were like a pencil eraser. Usually I just get those cigarette-ash warty things.
My pox this year, worst case I've had, has been 2 weeks in duration from first scab to scab-drop.
The scabs will be black and white. And then one day they'll be more tan color and just look a little different. Then you'll go back and they're gone.
My turkey poult, James, just looked like a really bad case of teenaged acne. When I went in the day before yesterday, both he and Ella had the cleanest pinkest heads. (Which means all that bedding gets to be tossed when they're done and the ground sprayed with Oxine - ah well). It was a one day clear up. Amazing.
So hang in there. Amazing that she's still laying - she's really a trooper.
Oh and throwing the red, in turkeys, is when they go from being all fuzz to starting to have their carbuncles and featherless wattles. It's a sort or rite of passage in my opinion.
My pox this year, worst case I've had, has been 2 weeks in duration from first scab to scab-drop.
The scabs will be black and white. And then one day they'll be more tan color and just look a little different. Then you'll go back and they're gone.
My turkey poult, James, just looked like a really bad case of teenaged acne. When I went in the day before yesterday, both he and Ella had the cleanest pinkest heads. (Which means all that bedding gets to be tossed when they're done and the ground sprayed with Oxine - ah well). It was a one day clear up. Amazing.
So hang in there. Amazing that she's still laying - she's really a trooper.
Oh and throwing the red, in turkeys, is when they go from being all fuzz to starting to have their carbuncles and featherless wattles. It's a sort or rite of passage in my opinion.
