Turkey Talk for 2014

[RockerHen]

Thank you! I do enjoy having these turkeys around! I loved the pictures of the silkies and turkeys. Those tiny silkie Momma's can be quite protective! LOL
This girl just cracks me up because I never know what to expect to find with her. She is brooding a silkie mix hen. The chicken hen would steal her eggs and so I think she gave up and decided to brood her too! LOL Look to the bottom left of the turkey hen. LOL

An unstoppable force meets an immovable object!


My double bearded young tom. His father was double bearded, and his mother was bearded, so he has some pretty strong beard genes I would say. They're starting to spar amongst themselves so soon we will butcher the excess toms and hens for thanksgiving turkey

 

[nanclapper]

An unstoppable force meets an immovable object!


My double bearded young tom. His father was double bearded, and his mother was bearded, so he has some pretty strong beard genes I would say. They're starting to spar amongst themselves so soon we will butcher the excess toms and hens for thanksgiving turkey

Great pictures! Your turkeys are beautiful!

 

[devinandfeather]

Here are my turkeys sorry about their colour hens look lavender but are white like gobbler just fly over to neighbours and get dirty



She is sitting on 22 eggs and is due to hatch

 

[TeaChick]

Here are my turkeys sorry about their colour hens look lavender but are white like gobbler just fly over to neighbours and get dirty



She is sitting on 22 eggs and is due to hatch

congrats on the clutch!

Hope everything goes well!

 

[TeaChick]

I'm still doing research about getting turkeys. What do I need to know about black head?
I free range chickens, and I was planning on free ranging the turkeys too, once they're old enough (about 2 months old, I take it). What do you all do?
Please, any advice, experience, stories, etc. would be greatly appreciated!!!

 

[casportpony]

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I'm still doing research about getting turkeys. What do I need to know about black head?
I free range chickens, and I was planning on free ranging the turkeys too, once they're old enough (about 2 months old, I take it). What do you all do?
Please, any advice, experience, stories, etc. would be greatly appreciated!!!

To treat blackhead you would need Fish-Zole (metronidazole), Safeguard (fenbendazole) or Valbazen (albendazole) and possibly Baytril (enrofloxacin) if one were to get a secondary E.coli infection.

 

[TeaChick]

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To treat blackhead you would need Fish-Zole (metronidazole), Safeguard (fenbendazole) or Valbazen (albendazole) and possibly Baytril (enrofloxacin) if one were to get a secondary E.coli infection.

Thank you so much.

I just found out that turkey poults are more suseptible to coccidiosis than chicks are, and we definitely have cocci in our soil. We use medicated chick feed to prevent coccidiosis in the chicks; how would we prevent it in poults?

 

[casportpony]

 
Quote:
To treat blackhead you would need Fish-Zole (metronidazole), Safeguard (fenbendazole) or Valbazen (albendazole) and possibly Baytril (enrofloxacin) if one were to get a secondary E.coli infection.

Thank you so much.

I just found out that turkey poults are more suseptible to coccidiosis than chicks are, and we definitely have cocci in our soil.  We use medicated chick feed to prevent coccidiosis in the chicks; how would we prevent it in poults?

Some turkey starters have amprolium, just like chick starter, some also have bacitracin, that helps prevent necrotic enteritis, which I believe poults are also susceptible to.

Add amprolium (Corid or Amprol) to you list of meds to have.

-Kathy

 

[TeaChick]

Some turkey starters have amprolium, just like chick starter, some also have bacitracin, that helps prevent necrotic enteritis, which I believe poults are also susceptible to.

Add amprolium (Corid or Amprol) to you list of meds to have.

-Kathy

Okay. Thanks. We keep Corid on hand, now that we had such a bad time of it with cocci this summer.
What is bacitracin? It wasn't on the list you gave above.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: It wasn't on the list because I was being lazy and just answering the blackhead part of your post. I don't know much about bacitracin, except that it's im some turkey and chick starters as a preventative for necrotic enteritis. Google necrotic enteritits in poultry (Clostridium perfringens) and I'll think you'll find that it can be treated with metronidazole or amoxicillin.

-Kathy