Black mark

[Little Doe Homestead]

Our beloved Tom, Mr. Bronze, has a strange black scab/mark that seems to have recently appeared - last night or today. It looks a lot like frostbite, and, admittedly they're in a pretty drafty and chilly coop right now. We did have a severe cold spell, but I've been keeping heat lamps on our 4 pet turkeys since they're BB and they don't tolerate cold well. He also has a big pimple on his Snood, but one of our hens had something similar recently and it went away quickly with iodine. I was planning on just putting iodine on these two marks as well, but given that this guy is a pet, I want to make sure it isn't anything too worrisome. He's acting pretty normal, except that a rise in temperature seems to have triggered his breeding instincts a little, but I haven't noticed any negative symptoms.

 

[R2elk]

Our beloved Tom, Mr. Bronze, has a strange black scab/mark that seems to have recently appeared - last night or today. It looks a lot like frostbite, and, admittedly they're in a pretty drafty and chilly coop right now. We did have a severe cold spell, but I've been keeping heat lamps on our 4 pet turkeys since they're BB and they don't tolerate cold well. He also has a big pimple on his Snood, but one of our hens had something similar recently and it went away quickly with iodine. I was planning on just putting iodine on these two marks as well, but given that this guy is a pet, I want to make sure it isn't anything too worrisome. He's acting pretty normal, except that a rise in temperature seems to have triggered his breeding instincts a little, but I haven't noticed any negative symptoms.

I don't know where you got the idea that BB turkeys don't tolerate cold. When I was raising them here, they did fine for me with no heat and -20°F to -30°F temps.

By providing them unnecessary heat, you prevent them from properly acclimating to the ambient temperatures.