HELP!! RANDOMLY DEAD TURKEY

[BastyPutt]

Yes, as others have said - a necropsy is when you dissect the bird, or preferably, mail the bird off to an institution that does avian necropsies. You can usually find them with a google search in your area - or you can visit this link, which generally has up to date information.

https://www.heritageacresmarket.com/poultry-necropsy-labs/

The reason why we recommend a necropsy isn't just for closure, or so we know what happened, but for the safety of the rest of the flock. Avian viruses and disease are all highly contagious to the other birds in the area. Some are treatable, and some aren't. In this case, when you find a bird dead without warning, a necropsy is really the only way to really protect the flock. I previously had turkeys and know they hide their symptoms a bit more than a chicken would.

It is also unlikely that worms would cause sudden death like this. They may have them, but death by worms would be very drawn out.

If you do seek a professional necropsy, make sure to say that it is for backyard poultry. Our local place here has the listed price of necropsy as $150 - but will do one for backyard enthusiasts for $25+ the cost of shipping.

It is also an option for you to necropsy the bird yourself, and post pictures here to the forums. There are a lot of knowledgeable folks who would be able to spot something obvious in the photos. Just make sure to take a lot of them.

 

[Prince and Pavo]

Hi I'm sorry for your loss I just came across this whole website just today and I came across your post ~
( IF ur LIKE ME AND YOU JUST WANT TO GET TO THE POINT SOMETIMES not read all the backstory or life story LOL BASICALLY TO SUM UP MY WHOLE NOVEL OPEN ONE CAPSULE OF POWDERED ACTIVATED CHARCOAL WITH A BIT OF WATER TO DILUTE SHAKE/MIX WELL IN DROPPER AND ADMINISTER FOLLOWED BY A LOT OF JUST WATER AFTER THE ACTIVATED CHARCOAL KEEPING HYDRATED very important and as well as helps shoot out a lot of the toxins and poison a little bit easier SO~
1CAPSULE 500MG ACTIVATED CHARCOAL WILL DO THE TRICK IF YOU WANT TO READ THE WHOLE REST OF THE NOVEL SO BE IT LOL)

I don't normally reply I don't normally post I don't engage in public social media what not but I am making an exception for you because I too am a person that has turkeys and I've had crazy different animal friendships amongst each other and have had a couple similar situations and if I could help maybe in any kind of way..++ I wish somebody would have helped me and save me a lot of heartache and loss so my turkeys 1 of them was pretty much feeling the way you were describing
x-actly as your hen an turkey were I didn't know what or how or where to get any help and it had been going on days and she was getting weaker and weaker and I thought for sure she's going to die anyhow before she got to the point of death it came to me to detox her because she must have gotten into something or somebody from next door through her something poisonous or something like that so I gave it one last shot these are all wild turkeys now mind could never just go up and pick one up you know but she was so weak at this point that she just allowed me to pick her up I brought her in the house I put her in the laundry room in a little box heating pad underneath the blanket made sure she felt safe and whatnot made it nice and warm and I took a dropper (a mini turkey baster) filled  it up with THE POWDER of
1-500mg CAPSULE of ACTIVATED CHARCOAL and just enough water to mix the powder do not over dilute the powder I gave it to her and I sat with her the whole night through just holding her I made sure to give her water and keep her HYDRATED because of the accelerated speed at which the activated charcoal detoxes and purifies your body BE a HUMAN ANIMAL you must ALWAYS REMEMBER to keep HYDRATED because of everything that it does take out of you which is just about everything hence it's complete wonderfulness and potentness of something still actually doing what it says it's going to do and at the same time doing a life saving thing too,... so she pooped a whole lot of just watery green/blk water mucousy like just slush basically for a good 2days and next thing you know it looked like she was getting a little bit more lively began eating on her own drinking on her own no more need for the dropper & well one way or another that activated charcoal pretty much basically did the trick saved her life and now 4 years later she just had another batch of little babies and she's doing all right so activated charcoal best thing in the world best best thing in the world for any animal/person that you might think has any type of unwanted toxins or gotten into something &/or has been poisoned in any kind of way or anything like that so I hope this helps now or in the future I know the timeline is late and off but this is when I came across it and I am sorry and I hope your animals will be okay now and in the future¡! Also P.S. if I might add WATER CLEAN WATER FRESH FOR TURKEYS THAT'S ONE OF THE MOST ESSENTIAL HYPER SUPER IMPORTANT THINGS BEING THE FACT THAT THEY USE THE WATER TO COOL THEMSELVES DOWN BY STANDING IN & DROPPING A LITTLE POOP HERE AND THERE IN THE WATER GETS DIRTY QUICKER IT CAN GET MOST DEFINITELY GET CONTAMINATED AND THE OTHER ANIMALS DRINK IT AND ARE MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO THE CONTAMINATION AND WE'LL GET SICK WHILE THE OTHER ONES WON'T IT'S JUST A GAME OF WHICH IMMUNE SYSTEM IS STRONGER I GUESS AND LIFE BASICALLY IDK BUT THEY GET VERY SICK REALLY QUICKLY WITH DIRTY WATER SO DO THE CHICKENS so now that I have written a novel lol an all the best

Thank you for the information! I haven’t come across this problem yet, but I will definitely use this remedy if I ever do!

 

[TesoroSena]

#Roxi1011881 thx for the info... i wish i had known this sooner... she got another chickie sick, and it died... so we decided the best thing would be to cull her. She was a great hen, was our first broody hen, raised wonderful babies and we will miss her very much. We tried to kill her humanely, and we buried her with Lonestar and put crosses over their bodies.
I felt really bad about culling her... especially since i am all about treating animals with respect, not the "humane" way ( because, really, we don't treat humans in a humane way, right??) and I will keep the charcoal in mind if this ever happens again... tho hopefully it wont. Thx again.