turkey attitude

bkvail

Songster
10 Years
Mar 9, 2009
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Skagit County, NW Washington
I have 4 BBB turkey poults about a month and a half old - they have grown up with 2 chicks since the poults were a week old and the chicks were just a day old. Yesterday, one of the chicks got injured, and the biggest poult immediately started stomping on it trying to kill it. The chick is now in a rabbit cage because of a broken leg
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It's very little still - less than a pound. I am torn between putting it down and seeing how it does. It was going to be a fryer chicken, but still I didn't expect this
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Is it normal turkey behavior to ''stomp a man when he's down''?!
 
yes, there is a HUGE difference in size now. The poults are nearly the size of my adult Welsummer's now. It was a Jake that was doing it too and I had to literally push him off the pullet - the others were standing right there watching
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