How to make your turkeys have small rounded snoods

[PekinBantam]

I agree, I love the way the tom's snood is. If you don't like it, get a female or try another kind of bird...

 

[Stef82]

Raise females or choose a different type of bird.

 

[frank53061]

I have an Idea take the Tom to the Vet and have there Snoods Cropped like they do with Dogs ears they would stand right up and not hang down LOL

 

[Lagerdogger]

I have an Idea take the Tom to the Vet and have there Snoods Cropped like they do with Dogs ears they would stand right up and not hang down LOL

I like you more all the time, Frank.

 

[Arielle]

I think the poster was asking for an interesting piece of informtion. I had noticed one of my purchased TOms also has a short snood. It seems a practical length compared to the long sometimes blooded snoods of the young toms that will fight at the oddest times. WOuld love to have a practical solution to reducing the number of injuries to their snood.

 

[razvanM]

I want to cut their snoods esspecialy because I will keep them in a very small space until they are 8 weeks old because of the illness risk they can get from waterfowl.And by keeping them in a small space they will start eating eachother,and I want their snoods small so they wont hurt themselves and have their snoods bleeding.I heard if you do this with a clean knife when the turkey is just a few days old,it doesnt bleeds at all,and the turkey will have a small snood for the rest of his life.Is it true ? I have also heared that if the turkey is older than 3 weeks the snood will bleed a lot and you wont be able to trimm it without a vet.Are those informations true ?

 

[KrisH]

I want to cut their snoods esspecialy because I will keep them in a very small space until they are 8 weeks old because of the illness risk they can get from waterfowl.And by keeping them in a small space they will start eating eachother,and I want their snoods small so they wont hurt themselves and have their snoods bleeding.I heard if you do this with a clean knife when the turkey is just a few days old,it doesnt bleeds at all,and the turkey will have a small snood for the rest of his life.Is it true ? I have also heared that if the turkey is older than 3 weeks the snood will bleed a lot and you wont be able to trimm it without a vet.Are those informations true ?

We have not had problems with them picking on each other as far as fights go until about 12-16 weeks old, and the snood is still very small until 12 weeks or older. as in still questioning are you a hen or a tom? so I personally don't see the problem there.

we have one baby about 12 weeks old that as a little baby, his chicken babysitter pecked at the little button of a snood when it was a week old and now has NO snood at all. it's face looks very odd.

I n my VERY LIMITED experience you don't need to worry about the snood (as far as injury) until much later than 8 weeks.

RobertH

 

[frank53061]

Has anyone here really had any problems with Injury's to Toms Snoods that would be a serious health problem.
The original Poster stated they did not like the looks of the long snood I don't want to offend anyone or upset anyone ether but isn't the snood part of the Toms allure to the Hen.
You reduce or take away the snood and that's taking away the Toms Bling isn't it

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But of course there is always selective breeding if the Hens will have anything to do with the Toms with no Bling.

I am no long time turkey grower by any means so far the only Snood problem I had was hand feeding some old hot dogs to them one day and a Tom and Hen side buy side were gobbling down the hot dogs and the Hen got carried away and swallowed the Toms Snood for a moment they were connected till the Tom pulled away

no Injury's to the snood and they went back to gobbling down the hand fed hot dogs.
I had to feed the Hot Dogs to the Turkeys and Chickens because at first throwing the foot long dogs out for them to eat did not look right as they ran around playing keep away from each other seeing those weenies swinging in the air in there beaks did not look right and plus with no hands they had problems tearing the weenies apart to eat them.

 

[KrisH]

 

[Arielle]

Has anyone here really had any problems with Injury's to Toms Snoods that would be a serious health problem.
The original Poster stated they did not like the looks of the long snood I don't want to offend anyone or upset anyone ether but isn't the snood part of the Toms allure to the Hen.
You reduce or take away the snood and that's taking away the Toms Bling isn't it

.
But of course there is always selective breeding if the Hens will have anything to do with the Toms with no Bling.

I am no long time turkey grower by any means so far the only Snood problem I had was hand feeding some old hot dogs to them one day and a Tom and Hen side buy side were gobbling down the hot dogs and the Hen got carried away and swallowed the Toms Snood for a moment they were connected till the Tom pulled away

no Injury's to the snood and they went back to gobbling down the hand fed hot dogs.
I had to feed the Hot Dogs to the Turkeys and Chickens because at first throwing the foot long dogs out for them to eat did not look right as they ran around playing keep away from each other seeing those weenies swinging in the air in there beaks did not look right and plus with no hands they had problems tearing the weenies apart to eat them.

Too funny!!!

I have seen similar swallowing happen too-- only it was his own. My limited experience is the first tom I bought already had his snood trimed-- I actually didn't know it should be bigger until his sons grew out a full long "bling" which does get damaged when they fight among each other. THe boys hang out together and usually don't fight, they just cruise the farm together. Usually a fight erupts when they got on the wrong side of a fence and now need to fight each other.

THen they become friends again.