Keep dying

[Blooie]

Here is the link to the page on the Mama Heating Pad thread that shows Mama Heating Pad at work out in Patrice Lopatin's greenhouse. It's just a little ways down on the page. From day one I have given her full credit for the inspiration, as well as to @Beekissed, who had also been doing this and was a huge source of encouragement to me.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...he-brooder-picture-heavy-update.956958/page-2

 

[SunshineMary]

I have found that my turkey poults do best on 26% medicated turkey starter crumbles. I usually don’t feed medicated feed to chicks, but starting poults on it has significantly decreased my losses to almost zero.

Also, don’t forget to dip their beaks in the water the first couple of days to help them figure out how to drink.

 

[Theeremmy]

So I took one of my pullets and put her in with the poults and it turns out they weren’t eating or drinking (even though they were introduced to the water by dipping their beaks and the food shortly after). Now they’re perfectly fine and have grown a bit attached to my pullet, I tried to take her out of the brooder a day ago and they didn’t like that. So she’ll be staying in there for about another week or so and I’ll try it again.