Turkey Talk for 2014

[PalmRoyal]

The "If Found" information idea is great!! Love it!

We did that for our first hen. However, these ones we didn't. We have before and it really takes a load off of your mind if you can not find one.

I love your hens aprons! You did a wonderful job of making them and such bright colors. I was wondering how to make some for my girls when they get older. Thanks for sharing!

I will see if I can post a photo or video how to on making them some time. I'm thinking about making elastic bandana collars for the boys as well. I believe we can make a few for people.

 

[Raiquee]

Hello all!

As of today, I am a new turkey mama! To two yearling blue slate hens, 2 two month old blue slate poults, and one little poult that is black with a white head, and a black spot on his forehead. He's tinier, maybe a month? Not sure his breed, got an email into the person I picked them up from.

I'm looking for a tom for my girls, and blue slates are kinda hard to come by? We want to breed and raise them for our freezer and for selling hatching eggs.

I will post pics tmw

 

[Turkeytruff]

thanks so much, Palmroyal, this is fabulous! I love the bright colours you used for them

I will definitely make some for all 3 of my girls.

 

[Sydney Acres]

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At this point I would just restrict exercise. Usually when a hip is dislocated the top of the thighbone (femur) moves out of the joint and pushes up above it, so that leg is typically shorter. And usually the range of motion is much less, as it is incredibly painful and they don't tolerate that level of handling without sedation and pain medication. There would also be grinding with some motions.

 

[chickadoodles]

I had a cockerel nearly get his leg pulled off by a predator trying to pull him thru the fence. It was pretty bad he could not walk. I called my DIL's vet office and she told me to Wrap the leg up close to his body very tight. It took several months to heal but it finally did. After about a month I took off the vet wrap and he would try to stand on it now and then and still could not. I do not know if turkey would be the same way or not.

 

[PalmRoyal]

thanks so much, Palmroyal, this is fabulous! I love the bright colours you used for them

I will definitely make some for all 3 of my girls.

No problem! We will try to make a video or picture walk-through or something of us making one some time for everyone. I'm thinking about making a few for our newest chickens (even though the cockerel has nothing to do with them yet).

 

[redneck farmer]

I am in need of some serious help. I raised my first turkey ever a Bruad Breasted Bronze hen for thanksgiving last year. Well that turkey was the best turkey I could of had for a first bird. Very tame and I could even pick her up and hold her like a chicken. This year I decided to raise 5 royal plam turkeys for FFA and so I can show them at the fairs and festivals in my state. My FFA advisor found me some royal palm poults and we went and bought them from a local backyard breeder. I had set up a brooder (in a livestock trailer) using everything I learned a turkey needs from my previous bird. Within the 2nd week I lost a royal palm poult. (It look like it had deformities an I thought it might pass away so I made sure it was conforatble till it's time of passing) Then I had to go on a short vacation and I made arrangements for some of my fellow FFA members to care for my birds. They took care of them good except they put in a "prank" bronze poult in with my poults that was 1 to 2 weeks older than my 2 week old poults. That thing beat the snot out of my poor royal palm poults and when I got back I was like "WHAT THE?!?" So now I have 4 injured poults and one healthy bronze. I removed the bronzes after trying to get it to be nice but It just wouldn't and now I'm back with my 4 royal palm poults but now they are all beat up. Now their injuries that the bronze did to my royal palms are only on the face around the eyes and nose. The royal palms body and legs could not look better. Their injuries are scabing over witch is a good sign but one poult is not doing so well. It looks like swelling everywhere where there is a cut from the bronze. I don't know how to get the swelling to go down or if it's a infection or not. They have ACV in the water and are feed turkey poult starter. Along with some outside time when they eat grass an bugs. They are 4 and 1/2 weeks old today. Plus I'm having a hard time handling these birds becuase there is four of them and its hard to keep track of witch one I've been handling. Any help or advice is appreciated. I will post pictuers of my poult later so y'all can see them. Thankyou.

 

[chickadoodles]

I am not sure of why one is swelling, you might try cleaning the wounds with warm soapy water and putting some neosporin on the wounds (with out pain med in it).
But giving any of the ACV while it is so hot is not a good idea it will dehydrate them according to the vet's.

 

[JJSS89]

I am not sure of why one is swelling, you might try cleaning the wounds with warm soapy water and putting some neosporin on the wounds (with out pain med in it).
But giving any of the ACV while it is so hot is not a good idea it will dehydrate them according to the vet's.

How does ACV dehydrate?

 

[insanity]

Ok my turkeys are multiplying. Early this spring I ordered 5 bourbon reds from a local store. After a few weeks they told me they were not coming so I was on the search again. I ended up with 1 BBW and 2 mutt heritage. I was only really after 2 but 3 will work. Yesterday the store called me "Guess what your order came in" and now I have 8 turkeys.What am I going to do with 8 turkeys in a subdivision?