Sick Turkey poult

[Catastrophic]

I’m away from the country for a week while my dad is taking care of my animals while I’m gone and he has told me that one of my Turkey poults has gotten real droopy and wings down. With it having a lot of Diarrhoea and white poop. What disease does it have? Will antibiotics work or should I try to use Corid. And is there a good chance this poult will die?

 

[skeeeter]

Hopefully your poults are eating turkey starter feed and they all need to be put on medicated feed asap as diseases spread lightning fast among turkeys. Yes! do give them corid.

 

[Catastrophic]

I’m giving them gamebird starter feed but Im a bit worried that they have gotten sick because I’m not home and haven’t been getting the right feed

 

[skeeeter]

@R2elk

 

[Catastrophic]

Here is a pic I was sent of how it looks. It’s definitely having the symptoms of getting sick, but not fully ill yet. Sorry for the poor quality of the pic.

 

[R2elk]

Hopefully your poults are eating turkey starter feed and they all need to be put on medicated feed asap as diseases spread lightning fast among turkeys. Yes! do give them corid.

It can be difficult to find medicated turkey or game bird starter. There are two kinds. One contains amprolium which is what Corid is. Amprolium is a thiamine blocker. Poults need thiamine for proper growth and development. One should only give poults amprolium if they know or strongly suspect that coccidiosis is the problem. It should not be given as a general prevention tactic.

The other medicated starter has a medication specifically for a disease quail get and is not beneficial for turkeys.

 

[R2elk]

I’m giving them gamebird starter feed but Im a bit worried that they have gotten sick because I’m not home and haven’t been getting the right feed

It's highly unlikely this is caused by the wrong feed. It is likely that it would have happened even if you were there.

 

[skeeeter]

@R2elk , what do you calculate this "white poop diarroea" could be?

 

[R2elk]

@R2elk , what do you calculate this "white poop diarrhea" could be?

Cecal poop.

 

[Catastrophic]

My dad says he gave the poult an antibiotic from the veterinarian and he claims that it is appearing slightly better than yesterday. So hopefully it will recover soon