Turkey Talk for 2014

[redneck farmer]

We built our turkey coop today. It's made from pallets an 2 by 4 fame with livestock wire around the top. It's 12 by 12 with a steel door.

The inside
The poults are very happy with their new coop

 

[casportpony]

We built our turkey coop today. It's made from pallets an 2 by 4 fame with livestock wire around the top. It's 12 by 12 with a steel door.

The inside
The poults are very happy with their new coop

What a lovely coop!

-Kathy

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: x2 very nice.

 

[TattooedMama]

We built our turkey coop today. It's made from pallets an 2 by 4 fame with livestock wire around the top. It's 12 by 12 with a steel door.

The inside
The poults are very happy with their new coop

Very nice!! We just wrapped ours up tonight too.

 

[Pretty Chickens]

It looks very nice and big. I have a small yard and my coop is 2 yard long. My chickens are small so I thing I will make a bigger runner. Yours is perfect.

 

[TattooedMama]

FML. My favorite hen is gasping for breath, throws her head all the way back when trying to get a breath. Just went to check on her, first time today-no idea how long its been going on but wasn't like this last night. Shes the only one. I brought her inside and she hasn't stopped, her skin is blue all over and I'm certain she is struggling to breath. She has her eyes half closed at this point. Her crop is empty and we can't see anything down her throat. I squirted water down her threat but no effect. She still has some fight in her as she tried to get away from us but even since I borught her in the house she seems worse.


ANY IDEAS?? I'm afraid she will be dead in the next 30 mins. Hope someone sees this before then.

ETA:: She has a few red marks where it looks like another turkey got her. Not huge marks but one is on her throat. I'm thinking someone damaged her throat by biting her there.

 

[TattooedMama]

She passed a little while ago. I believe she had eaten something that created a blockage somewhere or that someone crushed her windpipe/trachea (not great on anatomy) when they bit her skinny little throat.

I made her comfortable and tried a few things but nothing worked. Hopefully we hatch some babies this coming week. I had the humidity too high week 1 and couldn't manage to rectify it after that so air cells aren't big enough. Hoping these little ones hatch anyways.

 

[SA Farm]

I'm sorry for your loss

Hope your hatch goes well! I've done well with having the eggs angled with the air cell facing up. That way when they pip internally, the fluid inside the egg doesn't suffocate them before they can pip and zip their way out.

 

[Sydney Acres]

She passed a little while ago. I believe she had eaten something that created a blockage somewhere or that someone crushed her windpipe/trachea (not great on anatomy) when they bit her skinny little throat.

I made her comfortable and tried a few things but nothing worked. Hopefully we hatch some babies this coming week. I had the humidity too high week 1 and couldn't manage to rectify it after that so air cells aren't big enough. Hoping these little ones hatch anyways.

How heartbreaking! I'm so sorry. Hopefully she chocked on something she ate, as opposed to a plug of mucous from an illness or having an aggressive flockmate. With those symptoms, you should be able to get a diagnosis from a necropsy, if you chose to have one done.

I had three chicks (not poults) that had small air cells because I left them in the incubator on days 11-14 at 65-70% humidity while some earlier eggs hatched. When I candled them at day 15 their air cells were at least a week behind, it was only 3 days until lockdown, and I was really worried that I'd never get them caught up I turned the humidity down as low as it would go. By lockdown the air cells were still too small, and they had only lost 8-9% of their weight (instead of the recommended 11-13%). I candled the eggs and put an "X" at the low point on the air cell. I turned off the egg turner, leaned the eggs up against the wall of the incubator almost upright with the "X" facing up, and left the humidity as low as possible until day 21. Then on hatch day I turned the humidity up to 70% and the temp down to 98.4 degrees. Two of the three hatched out on their own within a few hours of turning up the humidity, and the third one hatched out the next day. The third one needed a small assist, as it got stuck in mid-zip, but all three are healthy and are two weeks old today. Only one had an ideal air cell by day 21, but nobody drown or suffocated after their internal pip. Don't know if it was the upright position or not, but it was just something that made sense. Don't know if the last chick got stuck mid-zip because the high humidity didn't start soon enough, but again, I had messed up the incubation process midway and had to replace standard directions with common sense and hope for the best. I thought I'd killed them all, but they all lived. Hope yours do to.

 

[casportpony]

Sorry for your loss.

-Kathy