A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[duluthralphie]

Thanks,I appreciate the pointers from everyone.I really should have done more research before getting them

Jr I would give them a teacher anyways, you could have special need poults after all you are pretty close to Louisiana.....

 

[duluthralphie]

Whats the recommended procedure for the eye dropper?
Pry the beak open?

I just mix whatever you have to give with egg yolk hold them in your hand and put the yolk on your thumb, they will gobble it..


Also do what feedman said about the cup. We do it all the time, We call it "turkey-in-a-cup" we do it so often. It only seems to take a day.

 

[JRNash]

Gott it in a cup. The others have a teacher with them. This little guy is WEAK

 

[JRNash]

 

[JRNash]

I can see how you would get attached. Been up since 2am fretting over this thing

 

[duluthralphie]

Gott it in a cup. The others have a teacher with them. This little guy is WEAK

Do not beat yourself up over it. some just fail to thrive like with chicks...

 

[JRNash]

The OCD / bipolar is kicking hard this morning.

 

[duluthralphie]

The following story contains lots of math. Please have a pencil and paper handy to keep up with it:


I moved Ethel indoors from her cage and run yesterday, (ok the WWD did help a little)..
We are feeling much better about her and her juvenile delinquents being on concrete and out of the monsoons we are having.

I also feel it does the Keets good to get use to living in a 6x6 ft cage on concrete, it prepares them for prison life.

Now I know this will seem hard to believe, but I goofed up the other day. When Ethel hatched her 7 babies I hatched babies in the incubator. Ethel hatched 7, I hatched 10.

A woman came by and bought 9. (sounding like a 3rd grade math test)..... I had told her I would not sell her 9, because I would have a lone Keet and did not want that....


Well, Being the genius I am, I looked in the incubator and I still had 5 eggs in there. The last one had only hatched about 2 hours before she came for them. I relented and gave her the 9, thinking the one of the other 5 would hatch....I was wrong...

I was stuck with one guinea. However, it is not completely my fault. She showed up in a small halter top, I think this affected my better judgment... dividing my judgment by 2..

When we moved Ethel we took the opportunity to sneak the lone keet in with hers. We sat on pins and needles (well, lawn chairs really) and drank a Mikes Hard lemonade while waiting to see if she would take it.

She did, all was right with the world...








We also managed to graft 2 BA chicks onto the hen that had rotten eggs. It was touch and go, we locked the chicks in with her overnight, after removing the eggs with a long handled (4ft long) soup ladle. I set them in a box, about 20 minutes after setting in the box they started to explode. LOUDLY and smelly!

This morning I went out to see how the graft went expecting dead chicks I reached into the nest and nearly lost my hand. The chicks were alive and hers!

 

[JRNash]

That's hilarious Ralph. I've told my wife cleavage works WONDERS. gonna go tend the rest of the flock I'll check in later

 

[JRNash]

Well i got some egg yolk in it and some of the electrolytes with antbiotic. Hopefully it will have an impact on it.