Turkey Injury

[Enoche]

Well my turkey got a mating injury about 3 weeks ago and we put some blu kote on her and she was doing good, but now she's limping and I don't know why. Is it because it could be getting sore or something I'm not aware of?

 

[R2elk]

Well my turkey got a mating injury about 3 weeks ago and we put some blu kote on her and she was doing good, but now she's limping and I don't know why. Is it because it could be getting sore or something I'm not aware of?

Are you sure she didn't get hurt again?

 

[Enoche]

She's been separated from the male ever since because of this so she doesn't get injured. I also check the wound all the time just to make sure she's ok. Do you know what could be happening?

 

[R2elk]

She's been separated from the male ever since because of this so she doesn't get injured. I also check the wound all the time just to make sure she's ok. Do you know what could be happening?

You could have hurt a hip getting down from a roost.

 

[Enoche]

You could have hurt a hip getting down from a roost.

It couldn't be that because we don't have a roost anymore. Unless she jumped on the ramp instead of walking into the coop? I have no idea, but I'm just concerned about her. She's limping on the side of the injury which would mean it would have to relate to that injury I would think. The injury is pretty deep and we had to cut off the part of meat that was hanging because it would have gotten infected. Yet this was a month ago and she wasn't limping or is she starting to really heal and can now feel the soreness of the wound?

 

[R2elk]

It couldn't be that because we don't have a roost anymore. Unless she jumped on the ramp instead of walking into the coop? I have no idea, but I'm just concerned about her. She's limping on the side of the injury which would mean it would have to relate to that injury I would think. The injury is pretty deep and we had to cut off the part of meat that was hanging because it would have gotten infected. Yet this was a month ago and she wasn't limping or is she starting to really heal and can now feel the soreness of the wound?

Without observing her in person, I can't say. If you have a vet available you may want to check with the vet.

 

[Enoche]

Ok thank you trying to help I'll have to give some further updates or something.

 

[Finnie]

Has her limp gone away? You mentioned ramp, and I thought of the time I had a turkey hen slip (on accident) down the chicken ramp. She had a limp for a while after that.