Turkey Passed Away: Anatomy questions and turkey fighting etc.

PureBigBird

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8 week old Turkey passed away 4 days after swallowing a large quarter-sized rock.
Here is a link with turkey anatomy: http://feistyhome.phpwebhosting.com/anatomy.htm

Questions: because turkey continued to eat for 4 days, thereafter UNTIL the evening it passed; therefore,
the rock must have made it into the crop (from the esophagus)?, thus

(1) how large can a crop expand (how much food etc can it hold too)?

(2) how large can the proventriculus expand to send food/items to the gizzard?

Fighting Question: the eve before the turkey passed, it being the largest turkey would not
submit...to another's demands for awhile...(another turkey is too pecky...and have
had to clean pecked areas on other turkeys.) Since the poor turkey died in the
middle of the night, have to ask, will an 8 week old turkey kill another turkey?
Thank you.
 
I have 8 week old birds with 2 week old birds and they have no issues.
I can't see it happening at that age unless they were maybe in very tight conditions.
Pecking is a stress issue.
 

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