Turkey Talk for 2014

[casportpony]

Sorry you lost one... The feedstore near me loses a bunch every year, but usually because they flip over under the heatlamp and cook to death.

-Kathy

 

[Sydney Acres]

Quote:
Here's the link to that thread:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...r-syndrome-f-o-s-my-experience-and-what-i-did

Hope you're able to help the second one. So sorry about the first -- what a horrible accident. They definitely need to be protected from themselves.

 

[TattooedMama]

I'm pretty much at a loss as with what to do. Now another has begun doing it. Sometimes they walk around just fine, others they fall and when you set them right, they tend to keep doing it. The problem is they hatched starting Wednesday/Thursday night and are a few days old already. They CAN walk, unlike Kuntrygirl's poults in her thread, and so they are too strong to simply be propped up with a towel. They jump right out of anything I try to place them in. I tried to cut off the bottom of a 2 liter and put the towel in that to make it stronger, but maybe I should have made the sides higher because my poult wasn't having it and ran off lol. I guess at least they are still strong. I will just have to watch them I guess.

 

[casportpony]

From what I remember they will grow out of it, but don't quote me on that.

-Kathy

 

[TattooedMama]

From what I remember they will grow out of it, but don't quote me on that.

-Kathy

That's what it sounded like happened. I have my fingers crossed.

 

[gevshiba]

I'm pretty much at a loss as with what to do. Now another has begun doing it. Sometimes they walk around just fine, others they fall and when you set them right, they tend to keep doing it. The problem is they hatched starting Wednesday/Thursday night and are a few days old already. They CAN walk, unlike Kuntrygirl's poults in her thread, and so they are too strong to simply be propped up with a towel. They jump right out of anything I try to place them in. I tried to cut off the bottom of a 2 liter and put the towel in that to make it stronger, but maybe I should have made the sides higher because my poult wasn't having it and ran off lol. I guess at least they are still strong. I will just have to watch them I guess.

I had a few flippers this year. I just kept turning them over every time I saw them. They, or the others with them, would start loudly peeping, so I knew I needed to check (but not every time). I read that they will die if left too long, so I checked a lot. I can come home from work at lunch time, so that helped. It took 3 days for them to stop flipping.

 

[gevshiba]

A couple of the boys, roosting where they aren't supposed to be.

 

[TattooedMama]

A couple of the boys, roosting where they aren't supposed to be.

So pretty though!!

 

[TattooedMama]

I had a few flippers this year. I just kept turning them over every time I saw them. They, or the others with them, would start loudly peeping, so I knew I needed to check (but not every time). I read that they will die if left too long, so I checked a lot. I can come home from work at lunch time, so that helped. It took 3 days for them to stop flipping.

Thanks for the hope!! We are just going to keep as close an eye on them as possible. Luckily I have no need to go anywhere until Monday.

 

[chickadoodles]

Help needed please,

2 of my poults are having troubles staying upright (both the lighter ones). First it was just the one with blue on his head, now both. They seem to walk ok, eat and drink and then they will stumble and end up on their sides (or upside down), often with heads thrown back. They cannot get back up when this happens and just stay there looking half dead. I thought it was Omphalitis and put some antibiotic in the water. I'm doing research and see nothing about poults/chicks with Omphalitis having balance issues or falling over. The two with darker coloration seem perfectly fine and are more active than the affected 2.

Any other ideas what it may be?

Thanks everyone

Check this thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/787208/turkeys-101-new-to-turkeys-what-do-i-need-to-know