Baby turkeys dying - why?

[db and cj]

I have a tom turkey and a hen turkey. She laid 8 eggs and hatched 7. I always raise my new hens (chickens) in my greenhouse because it is enclosed and the biddy s cannot get out. I put the hen and 7 biddys in there. Then I put the tom in there because he was grieving and mad. Then I started losing biddys every 2-3 days. I took the tom out just in case he was killing them. Then I have the hen with 4 biddys. today another biddy is dead. That leaves 3 biddys and the hen.
They have legumes and grasses to eat and I feed millet and milo and oats for the hen.
Any possible answers why they come up dead other than the greenhouse has been used to raise hens for the last 5 years? When they are large enough to safely free range and come into the coops at night I move them out of the greenhouse.

 

[gingergoats]

Are you sure they are drinking? I had a problem a few years back and discovered I needed to put shiny marbles in the water for them to see the water to drink. I also limited the amount of space they had to roam and even though I used a greenhouse I still needed a heat lamp.

 

[WalnutHill]

I also suggest making sure they are drinking. Chicks and poults that don't learn to drink rapidly fall far behind in growth as they use up their yolk reserves. They also lose weight, their legs get thin, then they die.

I always dip the beaks of my birds, whether turkey or chicken, a few times in the first few days.

 

[db and cj]

Thanks, I will work on the water and make sure they drink.
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