Royal palm turkeys acting off strange poop?

[Rcornerranch]

Our turkeys are about 6 months old, and two are acting depressed. The one lost her toe nail a bit back and has recovered, but the other turkeys bullied her a lot since then. Their poop is sometimes a frothy yellow-orange. The weather has been getting colder, and we moved into the house on our property. We were living by the animal areas in travel trailers. Could the change be upsetting them? The two we are worried about here hunch over more like they are trying to get warm all the time. They are not very interested in food. We isolated the two sick looking birds. They are drinking water, but not eating. Their poop looks very runny to me (water consumption without food?).

 

[HeatherKellyB]

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[HeatherKellyB]

@casportpony

 

[Rcornerranch]

The two are definitely losing muscle and becoming weak. I’ve been trying to figure out how to worm them in case that’s the problem (I have valbazen for the chickens). I’m beginning to think we are going to lose them.They really won’t eat, even when separated from the bullying flock members. They just drink a lot of water. They are so pale. No blood in poop or coughing. I worry they got something from the chickens because they pretty much free range the property together. The other three turkeys are doing fine. The black turkeys are even putting on weight.

 

[Rcornerranch]

Also they are having liquid light green poop as well now.

 

[Rcornerranch]

We took them to a vet. Though they are not specialists in livestock, they occasionally see farm animals. She said she is very concerned about how pale, dehydrated, and lethargic the birds are. The fecals came back clean (the poop we brought in looked like watered down milk), but she doesn’t believe that they really don’t have parasites. We are giving them the antibiotic tetroxy HCA-280 in their water. It is prescription only. Dosage is on the bag. Hope this might help anyone else who has sick turkeys some day.

 

[Rcornerranch]

The royal palm Tom was too weak to stand this morning. We brought him in the house, put him on a towel on top of a heating pad, but he kept looking worse. We loved on him a ton.

I don’t think he was drinking any of the medicated water. The hen might be doing slightly better. A bit more active and interested in food, though not enough to sustain herself. We force fed him some of the medicated water this morning and then a few hours later.

Desperate, I read that cayenne pepper, garlic, grapefruit seed extract, and metronizdazole can treat black head. Our turkeys interact with the ducks and chickens on our property, so that really makes the number of illness possibilities rise. It’s also possible they have MG from mingling too close to two sick chickens we keep away from the rest of the birds. They could also have eaten a screw from the construction of our house nearby.

I read cayenne and grapefruit seed extract can treat protazoa and worm issues supposedly. Not knowing what is wrong with our birds, I gave him cayenne mixed with water and also some gatorade. I also gave some to the sick hen. He was declining so fast, and I wanted to try something. I think it was too late. About a half hour later, I heard a struggle and ran over to find him seizing or just scrambling in place. I called my mom over and we held him together as the life left his body. I am praying we don’t lose all our birds. We plan to have a necropsy done via vet or ourselves. I will be beside myself if we lose more birds. We love them so much and planned to breed Royal Palms.

 

[Rcornerranch]

I’m so mad. He had a bunch of coins in his stomach. My mom told me she spilled coins awhile back and “didn’t think they would eat them.” So she just left them there. I’ve picked up coins she dropped on the ground from her car and warned her the birds might eat them. TURNS OUT there’s piles of them she’s dropped and couldn’t be bothered to pick up or listen to me. The only treatment I know of is surgery, and I know that’s not an option for four turkeys with metal poisonings. I really hope they don’t all die.

 

[Molpet]

So sorry for your loss. Especially when it's preventable

 

[Rcornerranch]

Thank you. It’s very frustrating.