Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[chippysmom327]

This may be crazy, but is there a way you can stitch it into place? Like, one on the top and one on the bottom? Dr. Pol did it to a cow with a prolapsed rectum. I know a cow is not the same thing as a turkey, but...

I don't know how to stitch it back in. There is a lot of vent hanging out, like a handful. Very scary looking.

You can try maybe? YouTube it? That kinda sounds bad...

 

[stake]

Woo Hoo

I sold 5 dozen eggs today!! Pays for 2 weeks of feed. Awesomesauce

Found one of my turkeys, she just about a year old and tried to lay her first egg. She has a prolapsed vent. I tried to push it back in but it came back out. I can't bring her in to nurse her back to health. Do you think she will be ok or should we put her down? I'm so upset. She's a mix of Red bourbon and Royal Palm.

Bgirl:

I am not a vet tech or have any real background....but , my vet has done surgery on prolapse($) and in lieu of stitches you may consider getting some surgical glue.(assumes you have the acumen)..

 

[pagumby]

At what age can ducklings be put outside with no heat? They are 70-80% feathered...and stink!!!
They are 4 weeks old now.

 

[fisherlady]

@fisherlady 12 chicks hatched, and one is working on it right now. Every chick is black except for one! I woke up today to one "highlighter baby". Bright yellow!


It's not very good of a pic, sorry.

There's one little black chick with the cutest fluffy face, but it's weak. It may not make it, but it's not suffering in the slightest bit. Just very tired, and will wobble from place to place in between naps.

Oh, no!! I though for sure you would get 3 or 4 yellow babies... we always had a couple at least out of any of our other hatches... sorry! Sure looks like Gabby (the BA roo) must have been a very busy boy! Though we also have his son, who is mostly black also.
For the chicks you can try cooking a couple of egg yolks, crumble it up and put it in a dish for them with a dollop of vanilla or plain yogurt. Baby vitamins or Save-a-chick in the water for the first couple of days also is something we do for our meatie chicks.

 

[Blarneyeggs]

Woo Hoo I sold 5 dozen eggs today!! Pays for 2 weeks of feed. Awesomesauce

Found one of my turkeys, she just about a year old and tried to lay her first egg. She has a prolapsed vent. I tried to push it back in but it came back out. I can't bring her in to nurse her back to health. Do you think she will be ok or should we put her down? I'm so upset. She's a mix of Red bourbon and Royal Palm.

If you don't have hemorrhoid cream on hand, honey will work. (Fights infection and can help with shrinkage). Blue kote too to keep her vent from being picked at by the other birds.

 

[BullChick]

Uh, guys? Shouldn't an opossum be afraid of me?
I just opened my back door to walk out with the dog, and the dog was barking at something right outside the door. It was dark, and I thought it was just one of the neighbor's cats. I got a flashlight, and that was not a cat! I have never seen one before! It was big! But, again, Shouldn't it have been afraid of me standing there? The flashlight maybe? The dog isn't big, but shouldn't he have been able to get it to do more than meander onto the neighbor's property? And is it normal for them to come right up to the house?

 

[fisherlady]

Uh, guys? Shouldn't an opossum be afraid of me?
I just opened my back door to walk out with the dog, and the dog was barking at something right outside the door. It was dark, and I thought it was just one of the neighbor's cats. I got a flashlight, and that was not a cat! I have never seen one before! It was big! But, again, Shouldn't it have been afraid of me standing there? The flashlight maybe? The dog isn't big, but shouldn't he have been able to get it to do more than meander onto the neighbor's property? And is it normal for them to come right up to the house?

Possums don't seem to hurry anywhere, and when caught by surprise they tend to just freeze in place or meander away. They will sometimes fall over and roll up into a ball also. I expect to find them right close to houses because they are scavengers usually and equate houses with food. If it smelled dog food or fermented feed from inside of your breezeway it was most likely looking for an easy way in to get it.
I don't worry about them unless I see them out in the daytime, which is out of the ordinary... and their eyes are sensitive to light, so it probably froze because of the flashlight... once it got it's bearings it was content to just leave. They aren't the type to stay and fight if they don't have to.

 

[chippysmom327]

[@=/u/178201/fisherlady]@fisherlady[/@] 12 chicks hatched, and one is working on it right now. Every chick is black except for one! I woke up today to one "highlighter baby". Bright yellow! It's not very good of a pic, sorry. There's one little black chick with the cutest fluffy face, but it's weak. It may not make it, but it's not suffering in the slightest bit. Just very tired, and will wobble from place to place in between naps.

Oh, no!! I though for sure you would get 3 or 4 yellow babies... we always had a couple at least out of any of our other hatches... sorry! Sure looks like Gabby (the BA roo) must have been a very busy boy! Though we also have his son, who is mostly black also. For the chicks you can try cooking a couple of egg yolks, crumble it up and put it in a dish for them with a dollop of vanilla or plain yogurt. Baby vitamins or Save-a-chick in the water for the first couple of days also is something we do for our meatie chicks.

Gabby was extremely busy!!! Is he a favorite with the ladies, or just a womanizer? Thanks for the advice with the little sleepy weeble. I tried to get him to drink and eat a little but so far no luck. He hatched this morning so his yolk sack will sustain him another day or two before things really get nerve wracking. I have the probios and electrolytes in the water, I'll try the yolk thing tomorrow.

 

[fisherlady]

Quote: Gabby was extremely busy!!! Is he a favorite with the ladies, or just a womanizer?

Thanks for the advice with the little sleepy weeble. I tried to get him to drink and eat a little but so far no luck. He hatched this morning so his yolk sack will sustain him another day or two before things really get nerve wracking. I have the probios and electrolytes in the water, I'll try the yolk thing tomorrow.

Send a PM to SallySunshine... she deals daily with little ones, and will be your best source for an answer about how to perk up the little weeble, or may advise of when it is best to euthanize it if needed. She's got a 100x the experience that I do with little ones.

 

[Reyvaughn]

That is a bit far. I am in Lycoming County. But I may take a road trip if I can't find anything closer.

Where in Lycoming county are you? I go to Muncy/Hughesville/Mountorsville/Williamsport once a week. I was raised near Lairdsville and I am just outside Unityville in Coulmbia county.



Yesterday was hectic... I am not very outgoing on these threads because, well, I am just a recluse. I am going to break that pattern tonight. Three times... I am posting on the Easter HAL and on Turkey Talk 2014, so I am sorry if you are on one or all and reading this 3 times!
I knew my turkey poults were coming in sometime in the AM yesterday. I was expecting a 6am call. I didn't get it. The night before my mother called to tell me my great grandfather wasn't doing well on Tuesday. He couldn't stand up without getting dizzy and weak. I was at his place at 8am to help him get his breakfast and pills. I stuck around and visited until almost 10:30. My great grandfather is going to be 95 in July. My great grandmother died almost 10 years ago. This man has had a stroke, heart attack two open heart surgeries, has diabetes, broke his ankle at 91 doing something with the tractor he wasn't supposed to and just finished radiation for prostate cancer. He lives alone and when he was able (up until last year) he tended a 1 acre garden, canned/froze the veges off it for himself, his youngest daughter and her daughter, he has always had at least 30 laying hens he sold eggs from, he cut, split, hauled and carried his own firewood and in his free time, he loves to bake. I mean, banana cream pie, cookies, cherry cheese cakes... really good stuff. Point is, his health is going down hill now and he hasn't been himself lately.

My mom called me to let me know my OH was calling her telling her my poults were in. I finally got out of great grandpap's (he talks your ear off) and got home to my husband telling me that the mail carrier had my poults and was delivering them. I freaked out. Um... Window down for three hours?! Who wasn't using their brains? I said I would be over for them. I told the PO the day before. I told the OH to tell them I was on my way... Well, they were all live when the mail guy picked them up. One was dead when they got here and 3 not far behind it. I lost four poults. They were so cold. I put them in the pen and tried dunking their beaks but everyone was more worried about the heat lamp - rightfully so. I think if I could have gotten 2 of the 4 to drink they would have made it. I went out an hour later and they still would not drink. Another two hours after that I finally got them to get drinks! It was a crazy poult marathon! They would run back and forth from me to the water and back!







Photo Bomb!


Another Photo Bomb!


That 'bomb' was my daughter's hand.



On top of the disappointing turkey losses (Meyer refunded me, though), I got a disappointing egg package today. I had to run to the bank and PO for boxes - then to pap's to check on him. When I got back, mail ran already. I opened the new Garmin (we are behind the times - this is our first GPS), I got myself a digital scale to weigh my egg shipments now and the quail eggs. I got these off eBay. I picked the box up and heard them rattling around. My heart sank. I unpacked the box to find the eggs flopping around freely in quail egg cartons (the plastic ones). I found 7 visibly broke and wrote her about my displeasure.

This is her reply back:
Quote:
I told her I would candle to see how many more were cracked that I could visibly see. I have a grand total of 15 damaged eggs and she is STILL insisting her packing methods are fine. Instead of rethinking her packing, she is going to get denser foam to wrap the plastic cartons in! -headdesk-


Otherwise, my day has been pretty boring. How are all of you doing?