TURKEY Question...Please help!

[Chik-N-Crazy]

I have 5 turkeys that hatched last night and today. They are all doing fine except one. Here's the problem:
- born 3 days before "due"
- pipped and worked for a while but had to be helped b/c he was drying in the shell
- after helping him out I let him lay there overnight, he became stuck to the paper towel under him
- he will not stand up
- his head bends back towards his back
-he lays sort of on his side with his feet extended, head back, no matter how many times I turned him over he flips back
- I thought maybe his legs were splayed, so I did the band-aid thing and sat him upright in a bowel with paper towels, he still flipped
- I have given him sugar water and poly-vi-sol on and off through the afternoon
-he also shakes some on and off
- he seems alert and happy, he drank some of the water stuff and makes noise just like the rest but will not stay upright!!! his neck does seem a little less bent as time goes on
What should I do?

 

[chickenhick]

Well, it sounds to me like you are doing all can do. Keep up the sugar water and polyvisol. I think he will come around. He is probably exhausted from the hatching . Just make sure he gets plenty of water. Let us know.

 

[the Old Rebel]

How is your little turkey doing today?? Sometimes TIME is the best healer. Sounds like you were/are doing all you can. Let us know how the little one is.