A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[Finnisher]

I don't do fermented feed, but experienced the same... mine are very hardy, never lost a poult once they were on their feet after hatch so far...

Everyday i check on them I'm scared that I'll see them all dead... I really hope they turn out ok.

Thanks for your experiences everyone.

 

[memphis]

Karenerwin...we often refer to our turkerys as "dogs with feathers". They bond strongly to humans and make great pets. We also developed a way to categorize their temperaments:
LAPPERS: Those wanting attention. Like Aurora's Eve who will hop in the hammock with her to snuggle. Or my Daisy who naps in my lap.
TOLORANTS: They hang around & don't mind being picked up but don't overtly seek attention like the lappers.
LERKERS: They too hang out but prefer not to be touched.
BELLYBUTTONS: This is Ralphies term for jerks. Everyone has a bellybutton...get it??

You'll see many of us occasionally refer to our birds in one of the above terms. Except for R2elk who is our voice of reason! LOL!

 

[memphis]

And Karenerwin...I'm a gardener and my girls are always "helping" me. I also take them for walks. Daily I walk with them next door to get my elderly neighbors mail for her. Most folks can't believe they follow me around and don't run off. Then it freaks them out when I call one of them and she comes to me. My turkeys are better trained than most of my neighbors dogs!

 

[BantyChooks]

I can't say for sure exactly how many birds we have total... I refuse to count the whole and only count individual pens, lol...

No wholesale deaths or constant ongoing deaths is great... barring the predator incident, sorry... been there before, unfortunately... lost 50 in a grow out pen to neighbors dogs once...

I prefer to avoid medicating/treating as much as possible, but I do deworm regularly... bad gapeworm here, so it's either deworm or lose many in large groups frequently...

I can't say for sure exactly how many birds we have total... I refuse to count the whole and only count individual pens, lol...

No wholesale deaths or constant ongoing deaths is great... barring the predator incident, sorry... been there before, unfortunately... lost 50 in a grow out pen to neighbors dogs once...

I prefer to avoid medicating/treating as much as possible, but I do deworm regularly... bad gapeworm here, so it's either deworm or lose many in large groups frequently...

I had been meaning to ask you about gapeworm. What were the symptoms of it? I was wondering if your birds had different symptoms from the normal... Thought I recalled some birds just seeming a bit under the weather and then perking up when dosed.

I have a batch of chicks with hoarse peeps and slight gurgling. Never seen anything like it. I looked it up gapeworm symptoms but the gasping for breath part didn't line up... The birds look fine, act fine, they just sound bad.

 

[rjohns39]

Everyday i check on them I'm scared that I'll see them all dead... I really hope they turn out ok.

Thanks for your experiences everyone.

Its not that they are "fragile"--but rather curious and tend to be suicidal. I keep mine in a shelter until they are 8 weeks old. After that they are pretty indestructible.

 

[Finnie]

New Tiny T pics... Ralphie you might be right!

He hurt his leg yesterday so he is inside now with my Narri poult...


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I hope his leg gets better.

 

[rjohns39]

I hope his leg gets better.

X2

 

[holm25]

He's is already doing better. I don't know what happened (could have been stepped on by another bird?) but he is doing a lot better. Still a little limp but he isn't using his wings to move at times.

 

[duluthralphie]

I can't say for sure exactly how many birds we have total... I refuse to count the whole and only count individual pens, lol...

No wholesale deaths or constant ongoing deaths is great... barring the predator incident, sorry... been there before, unfortunately... lost 50 in a grow out pen to neighbors dogs once...

I prefer to avoid medicating/treating as much as possible, but I do deworm regularly... bad gapeworm here, so it's either deworm or lose many in large groups frequently...

You sound so much like the way I do things. I try to remain drug free. and for the most part do, but if I get a bird that seems to have a bacterial infection I will send it to the ICU and start antibiotics or whatever. Or to let die.. I then clean and disinfect as much as I can so a second bird does not become ill.

If it was not for having done my NPIP testing 2 months ago I would have no idea how many birds I have. I could be off by 100 for all I know, I look in a pen and guesstimate.

I will know before long as I am aiming for 40 birds going into next breeding season. I am thinking the last predator attack did more damage than I thought. The pen seems eerily empty.

I seem to be low on my white legbars, I had 30 or more in that pen, I don't see that many anymore.

 

[duluthralphie]

I had been meaning to ask you about gapeworm. What were the symptoms of it? I was wondering if your birds had different symptoms from the normal... Thought I recalled some birds just seeming a bit under the weather and then perking up when dosed.

I have a batch of chicks with hoarse peeps and slight gurgling. Never seen anything like it. I looked it up gapeworm symptoms but the gasping for breath part didn't line up... The birds look fine, act fine, they just sound bad.

If you figure this out let me know. Ed gurgles, but it is a throaty gurgle and I thought it was just him wanting to make noise and not cluck like a hen or crow.