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My turkey hens swallow up rocks to help in digestion. A bolt is just a weird-shaped metallic stone.My 2 year old rescue turkey hen just ate a bolt. She is acting normal, but I’m worried about it because it is metal. I’m not sure what I can do. I use nuts and bolts to lock my coops. She grabbed it and ran before I could grab her.
It was a few inches long. I wish I had a photo of it. I am not sure where to find sauerkraut around here, but I have coconut oil. I will give her some tomorrow.Hi and welcome to BYC
What kind of bolt did she eat? Can you post a picture?
You can feed her raw natural sauerkraut which will wrap itself around the foreign object and help to excrete it without the intestines getting injured.
Feeding her chilled pieces of coconut oil can slicken the passageway.
A few inches is quite long. Does it have a sharp or pointy tip?It was a few inches long. I wish I had a photo of it. I am not sure where to find sauerkraut around here, but I have coconut oil. I will give her some tomorrow.
As I used it successfully only for my dogs and chickens, I have no experience using it for other species.@LaFleche, is that advice usable for any foreign object, in any poutry?
same. I haven't had any chicken problems, but one of my pigs cut her mouth on a broken beer bottle once, and I worry about my ducks due to the trash pile's proximity to the creek, though it's technically not on my land.@LaFleche, is that advice usable for any foreign object, in any poutry?
I always worry that one of my chickens will eat something that they scratch up in the run. I've found pieces of plastic, glass, metal. As far as I know, none of them have eaten any of it.
The people who had the house before us (30 years ago) left a lot of trash around. We still find stuff in the woods.