A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[Hillaire]

yes I will post one on my lunch break.

 

[casportpony]

 
hahaha well hopefully someone does... maybe @R2elk
 does?

I don't treat sickly poultry.  I cull them as soon as I find them.  I feed a high quality 28% protein turkey/gamebird starter and the only supplement that I provide is fresh grass clippings.

I am never the person to ask how to treat sickly poultry.

The person to ask for sickly poultry advice is @casportpony

Sigh... I can see the benefits of culling, 'cause playing nursemaid can be exhausting.

 

[Hillaire]

hmm I'll have to upload it to my youtube page and then insert it after work

 

[R2elk]

You would love this post/thread then...


I could not shut up about it. It bothered me half the night..

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1169572/keeping-the-best-culling-the-rest/0_20#post_18441341

That was a dirty trick. I almost fell into your trap. I will not go there. The temptation to tell those ****** why they are wrong is just too great.

 

[R2elk]

Sigh... I can see the benefits of culling, 'cause playing nursemaid can be exhausting.

For me it is not about saving time or playing nursemaid.

I do not want the chance of a disease spreading through my flock so immediately remove any that appear to be ill. I also do not want ones that may be genetic problems to be used as breeders by me or anyone else that gets poultry from. Once critters leave my possession, I have no control over what someone else may or may not do with them so anything that I would not want in my breeding pool gets culled.

My flock is very healthy and I very rarely have anything that needs culled but when it happens the unfortunate one gets dealt with quickly and humanely.

 

[BantyChooks]

I cull sick birds, no questions asked.... Injured ones, the line gets fuzzy for me. Often, I'll fix them up because I feel bad for them.

 

[casportpony]

Sigh... I can see the benefits of culling, 'cause playing nursemaid can be exhausting.

For me it is not about saving time or playing nursemaid.

I do not want the chance of a disease spreading through my flock so immediately remove any that appear to be ill.  I also do not want ones that may be genetic problems to be used as breeders by me or anyone else that gets poultry from.  Once critters leave my possession, I have no control over what someone else may or may not do with them so anything that I would not want in my breeding pool gets culled.

My flock is very healthy and I very rarely have anything that needs culled but when it happens the unfortunate one gets dealt with quickly and humanely.

I understand all your points, and have been think about this a lot lately. Last year one of my peahens was laying oddly shaped eggs, double yolkers, and large eggs. In hindsight I should have culled her because this year I lost her to salpingitis. thankfully I didn't keep any of her chicks.

 

[casportpony]

I cull sick birds, no questions asked.... Injured ones, the line gets fuzzy for me. Often, I'll fix them up because I feel bad for them.

I know how you feel.

 

[Bantambird]

That was a dirty trick.  I almost fell into your trap.  I will not go there.  The temptation to tell those ****** why they are wrong is just too great.

I posted. And I even shared how I learned to keep a closed flock. Let bleedy heart answer that one about how it's bad to cull.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I cull sick birds, no questions asked.... Injured ones, the line gets fuzzy for me. Often, I'll fix them up because I feel bad for them.

Most times, I'll cull a sick bird as soon as noticed BUT there are rare exceptions. Last year, my favorite hen Maple was wheezing Raitt bad one day. I didn't know what was up with that but I thought I was going to lose her. I brought her in, babies her, used vet rx etc. She doesn't one night in the house then she was fine. Looking back, I realized that she must've inhaled some DE or something. Most of my flock wouldn't get that though.

Now injuries are a different story. I try my hardest to heal any that have been injured. My little Mira that was scalped last year made a miraculous recovery. The little cockerel that Queenie attacked on his very first day that was skinned the whole way around his neck has healed competely. His feathers obit look a little funny around his neck. And the little baby with the broken leg in the brooder is improving. I was watching him this morning and he's starting to put some weight on his leg when he walks now instead of just hopping around