Abdalahbakah23

In the Brooder
Aug 7, 2024
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Kampala Uganda 🇺🇬
As of today, I have 10 poults, 3 weeks and 3 days old. Initially, I had 11, but unfortunately, I lost one in the first week, possibly due to free-ranging too early with their mother, exposing them to disease.

After the loss, I immediately housed the remaining poults with their mother to ensure their safety and health.

Currently, I'm concerned about their well-being:

- Sneezing: Despite appearing energetic, they're exhibiting sneezing symptoms without nasal discharge.
- Injury: One poult suffered a leg injury (possibly broken) after being stepped on by the mother. The knee joint is swelling, and the poult can't walk or eat.

I'm worried about their health, especially since I have chickens, Guinea fowls, and ducks sharing the same land, which may increase disease transmission risks.

Questions:

Are turkey poults more fragile for longer periods?
How can I treat the injured poult's leg?
What could be causing the sneezing symptoms?

Seeking advice and guidance to ensure the health and well-being of my turkey poults.

Anyway if somebody can help me out I would appreciate it.
Here are some pictures forgive my phone camera since its not that good am still setting my self brick by brick so its not a secret am still a struggling dreamer but with belief
 

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As of today, I have 10 poults, 3 weeks and 3 days old. Initially, I had 11, but unfortunately, I lost one in the first week, possibly due to free-ranging too early with their mother, exposing them to disease.

After the loss, I immediately housed the remaining poults with their mother to ensure their safety and health.

Currently, I'm concerned about their well-being:

- Sneezing: Despite appearing energetic, they're exhibiting sneezing symptoms without nasal discharge.
- Injury: One poult suffered a leg injury (possibly broken) after being stepped on by the mother. The knee joint is swelling, and the poult can't walk or eat.

I'm worried about their health, especially since I have chickens, Guinea fowls, and ducks sharing the same land, which may increase disease transmission risks.

Questions:

Are turkey poults more fragile for longer periods?
How can I treat the injured poult's leg?
What could be causing the sneezing symptoms?

Seeking advice and guidance to ensure the health and well-being of my turkey poults.

Anyway if somebody can help me out I would appreciate it.
Here are some pictures forgive my phone camera since its not that good am still setting my self brick by brick so its not a secret am still a struggling dreamer but with belief.
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As far as treating the injured leg, good quality, in focus pictures of the injured leg will be needed.

The sneezing can be due to a developing respiratory disease, dusty conditions or pollen caused allergies.

It's unlikely that they caught anything from the ducks or guineas. If you live in an area where Blackhead is a problem, keeping turkeys with chickens or even on the same ground that chickens have been on can be deadly to turkeys.

Keeping a hen and poults in the general population before the poults are two weeks old can result in multiple bad things happening to the poults.

What are you feeding the poults?
 

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