Dirty Turkeys is it safe to give them a bath?

[Younglyne]

Can baby Turkeys fly away
Or get themselves stuck in a tree

 

[Coops Dad]

Can baby Turkeys fly away
Or get themselves stuck in a tree

No. Mine didn't even want to roost in a tree until after they had been capable of flight for a couple of months. They preferred to cluster together in a corner of the tractor shed.

 

[WallyG74]

I don't see why you can't people who show poultry will give them bathes. and yesterday my 4-Hers how were doing poultry projects came out and practiced this with my chickens. Any way what you do is get three tubs of warm water. put soap in the first one. after you get this part do put you bird in the 1st one. You will want to hold his wings until they calm down or you will be just as wet. YOu also going to make sure that their heads stay above water. ( the kids had a hard time remebering that. ) wash them gently, going the same directions as their feathers lay. After you get all of the ash off put them in the 2nd tub of water and work out most of the soap in this one, after they get a good rinse in this one then you move them into the 3rd tub and then here you simply give them qa goood and final rinse, that way you know you got all the soap off. towel dry by pushing the water off of them pushing the water from front to back going the same way the feathers do. If you really want to shine them up put a little vasiline on the beaks, and legs, feet, and maybe even their heads. then put them in a clean and draft free place and your done.

Sounds a lot like herding cats.

 

[R2elk]

Can baby Turkeys fly away
Or get themselves stuck in a tree

Depends on their age. My poults start flying out of the brooder by the time they are 2 weeks old. They will get on the roosts at 2 to 3 weeks old but don't roost at night until the they are acclimated to the nighttime temperatures.

By the time they are a month old, mine are sleeping on their roosts.

It isn't long after they start flying that they can fly up into a tree. If they fly up into the tree, they are capable of flying back down out of the tree.

 

[RonnieJB]

I'm completely new to poultry,
but after the bath, the soap and rinse What about some kinda light type oil (olive, safflower)for the feathers? To help out with dryness? Does that matter with exhibition or normal life?