Turkey Talk for 2014

[Marselle210]

please help me ... they get sick infectious rhinitis than cure?

 

[Sydney Acres]

Hello. It`s my small turkeys. My name is Nazim. I`m from Aze.

Very cute

 

[Sydney Acres]

Thats what is confusing me is the blue, other than that I don't think it is a tom. She has the tiniest snood of all my birds lol, even smaller than the ones 2 weeks younger. ETA- she is 9 weeks, hatched May 10th.

Oh, there it is!! It is tiny, but she's still a baby. I wouldn't worry about the blue color. I was just out with mine, and both blacks and the bronze hen are much bluer than this little one, so I don't think you can use that as a determining factor in this color bird. I think when they say that females don't have blue heads I think they mean this:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/838701/turkey-talk-for-2014/80 then go to post #85 and click on it to enlarge the picture. I've never seen my females be able to achieve that level of blue on their face. But I think what this little one is showing is normal for her breed.

 

[Sydney Acres]

please help me ... they get sick infectious rhinitis than cure?

Hello Marselle210,
Welcome to turkeys. You said that you are from Aze. Is that Azerbaijan, or somewhere else? I'm not familiar with the abbreviation Aze.

There are a lot of diseases that cause infectious rhinitis, and some can be treated using antibiotics, while others can't be cured. Do the poults just have runny noses but are otherwise acting normal, or are these little ones sick, listless, not eating, etc What does the nasal discharge look like (clear and watery?, green and thick?, smelly?)?. How many are affected, and have any of them died? Are only turkeys being affected, or are some of your chickens also sick? What medications do you have available? Is there anyone locally that has turkeys who can tell you what works when they get the same symptoms (different areas have different germs, so what works in one part of the world may not work in other areas because the germs may be different).

 

[TattooedMama]

Oh, there it is!! It is tiny, but she's still a baby. I wouldn't worry about the blue color. I was just out with mine, and both blacks and the bronze hen are much bluer than this little one, so I don't think you can use that as a determining factor in this color bird. I think when they say that females don't have blue heads I think they mean this:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/838701/turkey-talk-for-2014/80 then go to post #85 and click on it to enlarge the picture. I've never seen my females be able to achieve that level of blue on their face. But I think what this little one is showing is normal for her breed.

Ok, I thought they didn't get blue at all. Those toms on that thread have gnarly blue color!!! I love it though, it looks awesome!! I'm pretty sure she is a hen. Just based on comparison to the other one and their polar opposites in temperament. The red faced tom in the last two photos on the previous page post #3484 is from the same hatch as the "blue" faced poult. I have never seen her turn colors, just this purply-blue on the back of her neck and a bit on the sides of her face. I think I mentioned before, when we were trying to catch them outside to give them meds, we had a surprise announcement lol. We had one of the younger ones start to strut for the first time ever and turn the brightest red, he went right toward my boyfriend trying to scare him away!! After we noticed he also has wattle development and his snood is longer than the others from his clutch. Hopefully we don't have more than 2 boys.

 

[Sydney Acres]

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Does the purply-blue on the young hen ever change to a different color, or is that just the color of her skin, with some lightening or darkening according to her mood? The blue on the toms in that picture is totally voluntary -- those areas of the face can change from purple to royal blue to slate blue to salmon to fire engine red to light pink to white to a splattered mix of them all. It's quite remarkable -- nature's original mood ring. But it's only the carunculated skin that can do that -- the special thickened bumpy skin that essentially covers the entire head and neck of toms to the point that there is no normal skin, and is scattered as individual bumps with some normal skin in between over the head and neck of hens. So I think what you're seeing as purply-blue is actually going to become her normal skin color on her head, that she will have some ability to lighten or darken, and will develop little bumpy caruncles scattered about, but not so thickly that the normal skin is blocked out.

I have a Spanish Black hen with a slight neurological problem, making it difficult for her to control fine motor movements of her head, and her vision is impaired in dim light. She is otherwise totally normal, and in many ways everyone's favorite turkey. My family and friends would all disown me if I ever culled her, she is so affectionate and personable and happily goofy. When the turkeys were about 6 months old the other hens weren't very nice to her when she missed important social cues (teenagers are soooo mean), and poor Isabella sometimes needed to be rescued from the mean girls (so glad that stage is over). Usually the toms would flank her and protect her, but sometimes she just needed her people. Whenever she heard my husband or me approaching her or calling her name she would "put on her happy colors." It was so adorable. The skin on her head would change from the normal light pink to what I can only describe as the lightest purple plum imaginable -- almost white, but with an obvious plum hue. And her caruncles would turn this beautiful rosy salmon color. Not a typical orangish salmon, but a rose salmon. Those two unusual colors together were so distinctive, and whenever she wore her happy colors we knew she felt both happy and safe.

Now that the hens are adults, the normal color of the skin (on the head) on the bronze and one of the blacks is the same purply-blue that your little poult has, although it is sometimes pinkish and sometimes whitish pink. I would suspect that the Narris would have similar coloring.

If your little tom is tame he may not have been trying to scare your boyfriend away. Toms display for many reasons, and often it is a greeting to people. My toms display and gobble and rush towards me the moment they see me, and when they reach me I kneel down and they nuzzle up to me as I rub their heads and necks. And they're displaying the whole time. When they're young they display for everything. One of my boys started displaying while he was still wearing down, maybe 2 weeks old, and there were days when I didn't see him in a casual posture even once. But neither of them have ever once been aggressive to me. The worst their behavior has ever been was they went through a terrible grabby stage when they were about 5-7 months old. They weren't trying to be mean, but grabbing and biting feel almost the same, and they were big boys at that point. I was so happy when that stage passed!!

 

[GregClark38]

I have 16 Bourbon Red eggs that should hatch this Thursday. Do I need to give them medication when they hatch. I will be feeding them Purina Game Bird Chow that has medication in it. I am new to turkeys.

 

[Marselle210]

Hello Marselle210,
Welcome to turkeys. You said that you are from Aze. Is that Azerbaijan, or somewhere else? I'm not familiar with the abbreviation Aze.

There are a lot of diseases that cause infectious rhinitis, and some can be treated using antibiotics, while others can't be cured. Do the poults just have runny noses but are otherwise acting normal, or are these little ones sick, listless, not eating, etc What does the nasal discharge look like (clear and watery?, green and thick?, smelly?)?. How many are affected, and have any of them died? Are only turkeys being affected, or are some of your chickens also sick? What medications do you have available? Is there anyone locally that has turkeys who can tell you what works when they get the same symptoms (different areas have different germs, so what works in one part of the world may not work in other areas because the germs may be different).

Yes, I'm just writing from Azerbaijan abbreviated.I'm just a little speak English. So please excuse me if I would write wrong.
Transparent allocation, but eye bags swollen eyes fill with pus. I on the basis of observations sdlal conclusion that this kind of amount mikoplazmy.Total poults about 470.Party quarantined about 70 of these symptoms are observed at 20, including 4 deaths.

 

[Marselle210]

Yes, I'm just writing from Azerbaijan abbreviated.I'm just a little speak English. So please excuse me if I would write wrong.
Transparent allocation, but eye bags swollen eyes fill with pus. I on the basis of observations did conclusion that this kind of amount mikoplazmy.Total poults about 470.Party quarantined about 70 of these symptoms are observed at 20, including 4 deaths.

 

[Raiquee]

My deaaaaaar husband accidentally put the little turkeys in with the big turkeys last night. I told him to put them in with the chickens. I've had no problems thus far, and they have an area where they can get away from the big girls completely. I just hear that your not suppossed to mix turkey sizes.

Any rate they follow the big girls around, and this little one is doing something questionable with his butt feathers. But this is all he does. No strutting. He also is suppossed to be a blue slate, but has no black splotches so I think he is actually a self blue. He had fawny colors in his tail and wings.