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- Apr 24, 2025
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For several weeks now, my adult female turkey has been having difficulties eating and generally seems in discomfort. She's been holding her wings outward and lower than usual.
She has a very healthy appetite, but can't seem to swallow well at all. She'll eventually get enough food, as far as I can tell, but she's having a hard time of it. When she eats, she often shakes her head violently, and often the pellets just fall out of her mouth:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sq-6Yp-ifNBkbMYtYbiZIIURlODB6bZ5/view?usp=sharing
Every few seconds she looks like she has some small spasm or pang of pain, regardless of what she's doing:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SuvfB4wnCsi55voHtDGAUn2M-oJFce2B/view?usp=sharing
Could it be gapeworms clogging her throat? A respiratory infection? Something else entirely? Today she's been just standing there and squinting her eyes quite a bit, which reads as pain to me. (It's just me on the property for the next month so I don't have an extra set of hands to do a proper examination of her mouth and throat.)
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
UPDATE: looks like she's got watery poops, but I wonder if that's directly because of whatever she's dealing with, or if it's a side effect: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sq3DRikfs7cMzoqj3MNDZP8--smtFMIr/view?usp=sharing
She has a very healthy appetite, but can't seem to swallow well at all. She'll eventually get enough food, as far as I can tell, but she's having a hard time of it. When she eats, she often shakes her head violently, and often the pellets just fall out of her mouth:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sq-6Yp-ifNBkbMYtYbiZIIURlODB6bZ5/view?usp=sharing
Every few seconds she looks like she has some small spasm or pang of pain, regardless of what she's doing:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SuvfB4wnCsi55voHtDGAUn2M-oJFce2B/view?usp=sharing
Could it be gapeworms clogging her throat? A respiratory infection? Something else entirely? Today she's been just standing there and squinting her eyes quite a bit, which reads as pain to me. (It's just me on the property for the next month so I don't have an extra set of hands to do a proper examination of her mouth and throat.)
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
UPDATE: looks like she's got watery poops, but I wonder if that's directly because of whatever she's dealing with, or if it's a side effect: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sq3DRikfs7cMzoqj3MNDZP8--smtFMIr/view?usp=sharing
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