A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[karenerwin]

My Bronze male has bumble foot (I believe). One foot looks to be twice (or more) the size of the other foot. My question is how do you calm them to handle them? I believe I need to soak his foot in epsom salts and then see how it looks. Do you wrap them in a giant towel or what? to handle them without them freaking out.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

My Bronze male has bumble foot (I believe). One foot looks to be twice (or more) the size of the other foot. My question is how do you calm them to handle them? I believe I need to soak his foot in epsom salts and then see how it looks. Do you wrap them in a giant towel or what? to handle them without them freaking out.

I've never treated bumble foot on a turkey but on the chickens that I've treated for it, they've rather enjoyed the warm soak. On the surgery part of it (removing the scab/callous and squeezing out or cutting out the infection) I wrap them tightly in a towel and lay them on their back. They're usualy pretty calm, though if it hurts, sometimes it helps to have someone else to help restrain them.

 

[karenerwin]

Yep. I've worked on chickens with various ailments but these are my first turkeys and they have gotten rather large

 

[Flashpoint]

If our current "Monsoon" ever leaves, I might get to measure the turkey toms. Right now, I have no interest in picking up and holding a soaking, sopping wet pile of feathers!

 

[rjohns39]

If our current "Monsoon" ever leaves, I might get to measure the turkey toms. Right now, I have no interest in picking up and holding a soaking, sopping wet pile of feathers!

You're no fun....

 

[rjohns39]

Teenagers! Ralph, I might need to get you down here to train my teenage Turkeys and chickens... For the most part, all but a couple behave. I have two Red Bronze and Three ILs that are refusing to stay inside the electric fence. We get them in and into their shelters at night but catching them during the day is fruitless as we put them in and they fly back out. Oh and the fun begins today... At least two of my boubon teens are Toms, even though they really don't have a snood yet, snood pulling was full on this afternoon. My adults are watching them but basically ignoring them.

 

[memphis]

Rainy here too Flash.
Poor dear refuses to let loose of that last tail feather. She's hanging on to one last shred of dignity. You can see her new tail is trying to come in

 

[rjohns39]

Rainy here too Flash.
Poor dear refuses to let loose of that last tail feather. She's hanging on to one last shred of dignity. You can see her new tail is trying to come in
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Poor girl... Mine haven't started yet, but I'm sure we're not far from it. Oh, and it only rains here when I go out into the pasture to work on the new shelter. Of course it pours...

 

[OneMountainAcres]

So, I've named two of my young poults. Mocha is the chocolate one (hopefully a pure chocolate) and another one has earned the name Pirate. Pirate is not happy unless he's on my shoulder. I know turkey shoulder birds are a bad idea but he does up on my hand the second I open the brooder for and immediately jumps up on my shoulder lol. The others haven't earned names yet but I'm thinking. I may name "Smurf", Azul (Blue in Spanish).

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Rainy here too Flash.
Poor dear refuses to let loose of that last tail feather. She's hanging on to one last shred of dignity. You can see her new tail is trying to come in
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Aww! Lol. Mary has lost all of her dignity and has no tail feathers left. Cuddles looks like she got in a fight with a lawnmower or something, her feathers are such a wreck. Princess has a competely bare back with just a couple little on feathers showing yet she's still squatting for Romeo constantly. Eve and Romeo look fully feathered now with great, Shiney new feathers.