BYC Buddies FitBit Group

[hysop]

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Oh that’s you?! This whole time I thought you didn’t have a Fitbit!

Yeah there’s a few I don’t know who is who but I keep seeing them get invited so I figured someone knew

 

[hysop]

I’m sad you guys. One of my turkeys (poults) died from over heating or heat exhaustion. They have shade and water so I don’t understand. I did an autopsy myself and everything looked normal besides the blood clots.

I feel like every time I’m away from my animals something bad happens. Like today I went to visit my MIL for a few hours. Same thing happened when that hawk attacked my rooster.

I much rather would have wanted to lose a bird to a predator than simply the heat because it makes me think I could have done something to prevent it.

The rest of the birds look normal. “It” was one of the bigger ones. I couldn’t tell if it was a boy or girl. I didn’t see definitive “sacs” like I do my roosters. But I also didn’t see any ovary looking things I dunno. Either way, sad.

Sorry for long post. On a happy note I walked 14k+ steps today which is more than my usual 10k

 

[hysop]

My husband thinks it was actually a result of two male poults fighting to be the one on top. He said he had seen them fight before. Wish he would have told me, I would have separated them. I had never seen them fight. They were 6 poults in a 100 sqft area with shade from a stump with leaves and plenty of food and water. Now there are 5...I hope these 5 get along...

Okay, back to doing homework.

 

[R2elk]

My husband thinks it was actually a result of two male poults fighting to be the one on top. He said he had seen them fight before. Wish he would have told me, I would have separated them. I had never seen them fight. They were 6 poults in a 100 sqft area with shade from a stump with leaves and plenty of food and water. Now there are 5...I hope these 5 get along...

Okay, back to doing homework.

I would not consider "shade from a stump" to be acceptable shade. They need real shade.

 

[hysop]

I would not consider "shade from a stump" to be acceptable shade. They need real shade.

Oh I have a tarp over their entire "run". The stump is not the only shade they have. They also have trees all around them that aren't inside the 100sqft area. Sorry should have specified.

I'll be moving them tomorrow and possibly making the run larger to maybe 200sqft and eventually make it 400 sqft when they're full grown in the next few months.

 

[CindyinSD]

Oh I have a tarp over their entire "run". The stump is not the only shade they have. They also have trees all around them that aren't inside the 100sqft area. Sorry should have specified.

I'll be moving them tomorrow and possibly making the run larger to maybe 200sqft and eventually make it 400 sqft when they're full grown in the next few months.

Sorry you lost your little guy. A wading pan (like an oil change pan) can help them cool down, too, as long as you don't let the water get warm. Of course that's not for tinies. Mine like to walk in our wee bit creek.

 

[hysop]

Sorry you lost your little guy. A wading pan (like an oil change pan) can help them cool down, too, as long as you don't let the water get warm. Of course that's not for tinies. Mine like to walk in our wee bit creek.

Thanks I think I will put an industrial fan because they’re in the shade like every other day but their beaks are open and you can tell they’re hot. My chickens are not hot no matter the age, so I’m guessing turkeys are just different. I added new cool water and will be refilling it with cool water throughout the day. Should I put a pool in there?
Anyway, here is where they’re at

Spoiler: Turkey/Poult Pen

For the sake of staying on topic with the thread, I am walking a lot today refilling waterers and adding frozen bottles of water and my heart rate is staying up there. Hopefully tons of calories are burning along with fat

 

[ShrekDawg]

Is it possible to move them further down under those trees under real shade? Even with the roof shade, being in the direct sun like that is probably hot

 

[hysop]

Is it possible to move them further down under those trees under real shade? Even with the roof shade, being in the direct sun like that is probably hot

I added a large fan for now. But yes, I plan on moving them soon depending on when my husband has some free time.

I am working on building them a 3 sided coop/roost that way they have real shade from a building

 

[CindyinSD]

Thanks I think I will put an industrial fan because they’re in the shade like every other day but their beaks are open and you can tell they’re hot. My chickens are not hot no matter the age, so I’m guessing turkeys are just different. I added new cool water and will be refilling it with cool water throughout the day. Should I put a pool in there?
Anyway, here is where they’re at

Spoiler: Turkey/Poult Pen

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For the sake of staying on topic with the thread, I am walking a lot today refilling waterers and adding frozen bottles of water and my heart rate is staying up there. Hopefully tons of calories are burning along with fat

I have a kiddie pool for my geese. I don't fill it since we dug out the stream. There used to be a creek through here, so we just took out the grass where it appeared to have been and now it's flowing instead of flooding our lower pasture. Anyway, the turkeys liked to walk around in that kiddie pool. Now they use the stream.

I think an industrial fan might be a bit much, though. How big are the turkeys? If large enough, they might use a wading pool, but the enclosure doesn't look like it would easily hold one. I had a regular fan blowing over iced water for my CX last year on the hottest days and that seemed to help.