JUNE - JULY HATCH-ALONG!!!!!!!

[LilyD]

I have only had personal experience using triple antibiotic ointment (without pain reliever) on the navels but I do know @LilyD used something else and I meant to add it to my first aid kit. @jolenesdad do you remember what it was?

I use iodine diluted with water so it's not as strong.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I use iodine diluted with water so it's not as strong.

Thank you LilyD! I'm writing it down now so I don't forget again, lol.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Turkey #2 zipped all the way around and the membrane was a bit dry as I was concerned might happen from my poor timing when opening the incubator...so naturally I opened it again to help just a tad and put her back in the incubator to finish kicking out, she shot out of the shell and walked away from the camera, so much for her début photoshoot, lol!

 

[jolenesdad]

Sorry trimming horse hooves around here today!

I actually planned on hatching all of them separately, hence the 4 incubators running, but when my friend called with an SOS to please help because a dog killed her turkey hen and she wanted to see if any of her turkey eggs would hatch, I had to make some minor adjustments. I wasn't too worried about the Peacocks being a couple of days behind the Turkeys but I definitely wanted the 3 tiny quail in a separate incubator, so they have the big "Little Giant" all to themselves, lol.

Speaking of woes...this is what is currently happening in my incubator with the second turkey poult hatching...it clearly hit a decent sized blood vessel, I don't like the amount of blood I'm seeing, it rested for a bit but I do still see movement.

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Come on baby turkey, you got this!!!

Two are pipped!!! One is in the set of eggs that were so dirty, with crusted on foul smelling funk, that we deliberated tossing altogether. I just couldn’t do it when I could see the baby fully developed and moving... So, I have a plan and would love input! The incubator is packed tight and there is foul funk everywhere. Plan is to watch keets as they hatch and when almost done zipping, to place in a box with paper towels on a heating pad to finish and dry off before putting into our pretty big and crazy brooder that we’ve rigged up. I wondered if I should dip their umbilicus in iodine, like you do for puppies? Anyone ever done that? An ascending omphalitis seems like a likely problem to me... I’m also giving them water with the high dose of Nutridrench. Probiotics in water maybe? I’m trying to think of everything I can do to prevent bacterial infection from all the foul gunk that they will be exposed to... I do have antibiotics (tetracycline) I could put in water, but I think I’d rather not go there unless the first round of guineas look like they are indeed dying from infection...

Yay to pips. I think I would (diluted) dip.

I use iodine diluted with water so it's not as strong.

Yes diluted! Do you— or does anyone have experience with chlorhexidine and chickens? The last time I foaled a horse it was becoming recommended to use that over iodine. I feel like it’s not as strong was maybe the reasoning and iodine can be caustic without dilution to sensitive skin sometimes.

I’m going to ask my vet when I’m in this week.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Turkey #2 zipped all the way around and the membrane was a bit dry as I was concerned might happen from my poor timing when opening the incubator...so naturally I opened it again to help just a tad and put her back in the incubator to finish kicking out, she shot out of the shell and walked away from the camera, so much for her début photoshoot, lol!

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Ah those of beautiful poults! Will they be white turkeys?

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Sorry trimming horse hooves around here today!


Come on baby turkey, you got this!!!


Yay to pips. I think I would (diluted) dip.



Yes diluted! Do you— or does anyone have experience with chlorhexidine and chickens? The last time I foaled a horse it was becoming recommended to use that over iodine. I feel like it’s not as strong was maybe the reasoning and iodine can be caustic without dilution to sensitive skin sometimes.

I’m going to ask my vet when I’m in this week.

Oh my, trimming hooves is exhausting work! Don't forget to drink lots of water in this heat! lol...the mom in me comes out even online, that's embarrassing and yet I'm still posting it.

Let us know what your vet says about the chlorhexidine!

Ah those of beautiful poults! Will they be white turkeys?

Yes, all white and some with white and black. They're Midget Whites and Royal Palm/Midget White crosses. They're supposed to be the big puppies of the turkey world and are super friendly, so even less likely they will make it to the Thanksgiving table, lol. They're not small at all though so I don't know why they're called midgets...they're some of the bigger turkeys I've seen!

 

[jolenesdad]

Let us know what your vet says about the chlorhexidine!

Now I’m curious and texting them.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Two guineas have hatched! One was one of the heavily contaminated eggs! It’s a weird way of doing this - as they finish zipping I’m pulling keet and shell out, walking to the brooder, pulling keet out shell, dabbing with iodine on a q tip, then placing soaking wet keet into heating pad cave within the makeshift brooder. I’ve only just now noticed that what I have is betadine scrub (with soap!). Guess I’ll run to Walmart and see if they have iodine. I’ll have to swab off the scrub as soap is irritating...

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Oh my, trimming hooves is exhausting work! Don't forget to drink lots of water in this heat! lol...the mom in me comes out even online, that's embarrassing and yet I'm still posting it.

Let us know what your vet says about the chlorhexidine!



Yes, all white and some with white and black. They're Midget Whites and Royal Palm/Midget White crosses. They're supposed to be the big puppies of the turkey world and are super friendly, so even less likely they will make it to the Thanksgiving table, lol. They're not small at all though so I don't know why they're called midgets...they're some of the bigger turkeys I've seen!

Wow, how cool! My hubbys work friend who sold us our original guinea eggs also breeds royal palm turkeys, and my hubby (who’s not that much of an animal person) was so impressed that he really wanted turkeys!

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Oh my, trimming hooves is exhausting work! Don't forget to drink lots of water in this heat! lol...the mom in me comes out even online, that's embarrassing and yet I'm still posting it.

Let us know what your vet says about the chlorhexidine!



Yes, all white and some with white and black. They're Midget Whites and Royal Palm/Midget White crosses. They're supposed to be the big puppies of the turkey world and are super friendly, so even less likely they will make it to the Thanksgiving table, lol. They're not small at all though so I don't know why they're called midgets...they're some of the bigger turkeys I've seen!

Trimming them yourself? You have mad skills!!!! Farriers have the most amazing patience and endurance!