A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[yesterDAYNE]

oh god's sake. one of the sweetgrass today is suddenly sounding VERY nasally when it's making noises. so now i'm thinking they have a respiratory. this is so crazy, i've never had new babies give me this many issues. i can't find anywhere that sells tylan 50 either, just tylan 200 at tractor supply. i swore i had a small bottle of some i got off some weird website a year or so ago somewhere but now i don't have any clue where it went. >_<

 

[Bantambird]

My prisoners. While I am forced to keep them in the room (although there is a window wide open on the other side so that there is clean air, but the window is also barred - this is done so that the foxes cannot get in there), when I put things in order on the place where they will walk, I will open the door so they can get out. While they sit in the barn room.
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If there is one thing universal, it's that red foxes live the world over and cause problems to poultry everywhere.

 

[SarahGfa]

This guy has warts on his face. Look at the bump to the top left of his eye. Is it fowl pox? The other poults do not have these warts.

 

[R2elk]

This guy has warts on his face. Look at the bump to the top left of his eye. Is it fowl pox? The other poults do not have these warts.

Possibly. If it is Fowl Pox, it will make its rounds for all of them.

 

[SarahGfa]

Possibly. If it is Fowl Pox, it will make its rounds for all of them.

Oh, no

 

[R2elk]

Oh, no

If it is, they will only get it the one time. If it is Dry Pox, other than causing discomfort, it should not hurt them but secondary infections are possible.

 

[yesterDAYNE]

To me it almost just looks like some caruncles starting to growing in, but the pic is a little blurry so I can't say for sure.

 

[R2elk]

 

[Pasha838]

What kind of turkeys do you have?

Unfortunately I do not understand turkey breeds at all. I only know that this is a light breed (males grow up to 7-8 kg, and adult females weigh about 4 kg). When a very long time ago I had such. but I had to eat them because I didn't have a good barn and they attacked my ducks very оften (I had two large turkeys, 3 turkeys and about 300 ducks. I don`t know what was the problem there, but my adult big turkeys seriouly disliked mu ducks). Now the ducks live in a separate barn and they have their own fenced-off area. Geese have their own barn and fenced-off area. And now I gave one of the rooms of the turkey barn. Now they are young and live with guinea fowls. If they will have conflicts in the future, then I will move the guinea fowl to another barn.
I bought turkey poults in completely different places, not on the farm, but from amateur breeders. I bought 3 turkey poults from someone, and one from someone, and some turkeys from someone )) One woman who sold me turkey poults (I also bought 18 grown goslings and 5 ducklings from her), by mistake, together with the turkeys, put an adult quail in my box. We caught goslings for a long time and put them in boxes, so we got tired and confused a turkey with a quail.
When the turkey poults became much larger than the quail, I had to move out, now he lives with me with young chickens, because I have no other quails yet.

Here are that young turkeys (I’m already confused and don’t remember, it seems in the photo I see another chicken and there is also this quail, and guinea fowls too).

This photo was taken later, when they were a little older.

As I was promised, turkeys - both white and brown - are light breeds, the male grows to 7-8 kg. They will live in this room and go outside through the door. Once upon a time, goats lived here, but there were a lot of them, the room became too cramped and the goats moved to another, which is much larger. Since goats live in the next room (there is a door), it is quite warm here in winter (we have relatively cold winters).
I have not made nests for laying eggs here yet, because the bird is still young. If they lay eggs, I will use them for incubation - turkeys hatch chicks well, or as a last resort I have several incubators, although usually incubators are filled with chicken eggs, because Leghorns do not hatch eggs. In ducks and geese, when something is wrong - sometimes I put eggs in an incubator, sometimes a goose or duck sits on the nest and incubates them.

 

[Pasha838]

If there is one thing universal, it's that red foxes live the world over and cause problems to poultry everywhere.

Now I feel better, because I have again got a large and serious dog. Local foxes do not go to areas where there are dogs. It's just that my old dog died, and I didn't buy a new one, as a result, a fox came and created a lot of problems for me. It got to the point that I even had to sleep in the barn, waiting for her. Oddly enough, I managed to catch the fox, and on this her life was over (I had no choice, she ate 8 geese, 3 ducks and it seems two chickens, if I had not caught her, she probably would have eaten everyone, how she ate all the chickens from my neighbor).
It is much easier to live with a dog, he barks and always drives away uninvited guests. I have a smart dog, he knows not to attack poultry. Once a chicken crawled out of my pen and sat all night in the thickets of raspberries, he found it, but did not eat it, but simply guarded it all night. In the morning I caught this chicken, fixed the fence of the chicken coop and put it back in place.