Bleeding turkey tail HELP!! New Turkey Owner!!

[ivan3]

I did notice he had a few flys in his little cage
I moved him into!! I have a old red house on my property thats gutted on the inside but we still keep power in it and use the garage! I keep all my chicks in the back bed room!! Normally I hatch the chicks move them in a tote in the house for a week then they go to the red house and then after 4 or 5 weeks they go outside! Anyway I moved the turkey back in the bedroom in a small cage with a quart feeder and waterer! I wrapped a atv nylon stretchy rope tie with hooks on each end around the waterer to keep him from knocking it over and I noticed a little while ago that he had chewed or pecked right through it
last night and the tip of his beak has broken off 0.0 My friend hatched 3 turkeys about 4 weeks ago and the 2 bourbon reds have pecked the wire in his metal chick shelf thing so much that their top beaks are totally broken off like a cm past the bottom part of their beaks they r bloody and just look crazy u can see their tongues all the time! Will they heal and grow back?? How do they eat like that?? Mines not that bad at all but he did break the tip of it off! Anyway I tried my best to examine his tail and I couldn't really see any type of wound just looked like those 2 feathers were broken off and that's possibly where the blood was coming from and all the other chicks were peckin at that? I'm just really not sure I couldn't 100% tell! It's dried blood today tho its not that bright red! So that's a positive!

Good. Broken feathers can bleed profusely, but the bird usually won't bleed out from such and, yes, the other birds can't resist the blood (a member wrote about `cannibal' chooks - but the actual culprits were mice chewing at the feathers and licking the blood during the night and the chooks discovering it in the morning) Unclear on the broken beak? I've had toms chip the tips trying to get at each other through 1"x2" welded wire, but none actually broken off. Regrowth depends on how far back it is broken off. Would probably stretch a cut out section of pantyhose over any wire (in your friend's case), this would keep them from ripping beaks while allowing air flow.

Are you feeding your Royal turkey starter? If not, try augmenting diet with crushed hard boiled/scrambled eggs/meal worms/moths

 

[kristianhope18]

I feed all my turkeys medicated turkey starter! Do u think I need to feed them anything else? I have just been feeding them only that! My friends are broken off horrible like it almost makes me sick to look at them! He still hasn't moved them! I told him to move them immediately but he didn't seem to worried about it! It's freaked me out and its kind of ironic that the next day mine breaks his off! Ill try to take a picture of it tomorrow! It was done either on the wire and him trying to get out or which I'm about positive it was done when he chewed the atv cord in half! I never dreamed a turkey could cut one of those in half I couldn't even do that!! So I should wrap panty hose around the wire in his cage? Also what do u think he is? A Tom or female? And do u think he's a royal palm? I bought him from a guy who had no clue what he was he was the middle man! I also bought some turkey eggs that I had no clue what they were when I purchased them! I think I got 1 frizzle narrgansett (have u ever heard of a frizzle turkey??) 1 plain narrgansett and I'm pretty sure I got two more royal palms they have the little spots of black on their wings like this one does!

 

[ivan3]

I feed all my turkeys medicated turkey starter! Do u think I need to feed them anything else? I have just been feeding them only that! My friends are broken off horrible like it almost makes me sick to look at them! He still hasn't moved them! I told him to move them immediately but he didn't seem to worried about it! It's freaked me out and its kind of ironic that the next day mine breaks his off! Ill try to take a picture of it tomorrow! It was done either on the wire and him trying to get out or which I'm about positive it was done when he chewed the atv cord in half! I never dreamed a turkey could cut one of those in half I couldn't even do that!! So I should wrap panty hose around the wire in his cage? Also what do u think he is? A Tom or female? And do u think he's a royal palm? I bought him from a guy who had no clue what he was he was the middle man! I also bought some turkey eggs that I had no clue what they were when I purchased them! I think I got 1 frizzle narrgansett (have u ever heard of a frizzle turkey??) 1 plain narrgansett and I'm pretty sure I got two more royal palms they have the little spots of black on their wings like this one does!

If it isn't biting at cage/wire don't worry with the `unbiteable' fabric. Reason I brought up feed was your info. of its going after the tie. Possibly stress related pecking? Don't think it is a pure palm (ours had no gray at all), but I'll defer to those members who `know their colors'. Have also never heard of a frizzle narri. You can take some more shots and post up another thread about the possible lineage.
It has a `hennish' head.

 

[kristianhope18]

I posted and made a thread called "frizzle narrgansett turkey" and put tons of pics up! His feathers are 100% different than the other I have!! They are backwards looking! I don't own a frizzle but I've seen plenty and this looks like a frizzle to me! Problem is I've never seen a frizzle turkey! I've researched till I'm blue in the face! A girl did post on here about how she thought she had one and other ppl were shocked but said anythings possible! That was it but I've never seen a picture of an adult frizzle turkey!! Go check mine out and tell me what u think? Wonder how rare it is? I hate to hear that about my "royal palms" they kinda looked black but could be grey I really wanted royal palms too ;-(