A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[casportpony]

@holm25 , a friend of mine just lost two if their young birds. Like you poult, their birds were fine one day, dead the next. This is what their liver and ceca looked like:

Spoiler: more nasty necropsy pictures

 

[rjohns39]

Thanks Kathy, Thanks to you I've finally figured out how to do a spoiler.

 

[duluthralphie]

Does that link show any pictures of Marek's livers? I tried to open it, but it crashed my computer.

It does, but they do not look like Holm's and it says they should be on other organs and not just the liver...In addition, Turkeys while they can get Marek's they seldom do. Also his chicken should be dropping like flies if he had Marek's strong enough to kill a poult.

 

[duluthralphie]

@holm25 , a friend of mine just lost two if their young birds. Like you poult, their birds were fine one day, dead the next. This is what their liver and ceca looked like:

Spoiler: more nasty necropsy pictures

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Those look more like Marek't than the ones Holms has. Mareks looks almost like cirrhosis of the liver in humans.

 

[holm25]

@casportpony Ralphie is right. It does not look like blackhead. In fact it looks more like Liver Fluke? What do you think? There was little worm things in the pockets?

 

[DwayneNLiz]

@casportpony Ralphie is right. It does not look like blackhead. In fact it looks more like Liver Fluke? What do you think? There was little worm things in the pockets?

did you get a picture??
liver fluke look like leaches and can get pretty big

 

[duluthralphie]

did you get a picture??
liver fluke look like leaches and can get pretty big

These did not look like the liver flukes I have seen in Deer. BUT I assume there can be different species of flukes, just like there are so many different kinds of gut worms.

Had I thought about it at the time I would have asked him to split the heart open and look for a worm in the heart.


(BTW) I know turkeys are not suppose to get heartworm, but weirder things have happened.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

These did not look like the liver flukes I have seen in Deer. BUT I assume there can be different species of flukes, just like there are so many different kinds of gut worms.

Had I thought about it at the time I would have asked him to split the heart open and look for a worm in the heart.


(BTW) I know turkeys are not suppose to get heartworm, but weirder things have happened.

i was picturing the ones that deer get gross

 

[R2elk]

Last night one of the Blue Slate hens did not show up for bedtime. This morning after stumbling through all kinds of weeds, having a sneezing fit, I finally found her. She was hiding on a nest in the middle of 4' tall sweet clover.

Royal Palm hen

Mule deer helping himself to the Russian Olives

 

[Molpet]

Last night one of the Blue Slate hens did not show up for bedtime. This morning after stumbling through all kinds of weeds, having a sneezing fit, I finally found her. She was hiding on a nest in the middle of 4' tall sweet clover.

Royal Palm hen

Mule deer helping himself to the Russian Olives

Hope she is safe from predators
nice buck
Have you ever had a deer hit the 2x4 wire fence? My fence kept getting knocked askew and one day I found a doe with a broken neck.. a fence had been in the same spot since the '60's .. early fall a few yrs ago so figured the rut must have been early, cause a coyote would have had a snack