Urgent!!!

[VerlonCox]

Okay, I guess that came off as a little wrong but I have a LOT of tom's and hens and I have seen them scrap. You cant stop it! You can seperate them all that you want to and if you have some 1 x 2 wire between them where they can see each other they are going to break their toes trying to get to each other. I was laughing because my first thought was that it was a neurological problem but I have seen tom's do the exact same thing as his. I have had tom's POURING blood off of their heads when they go to roost and have yet to lost one to fighting. If all of you people think that you can keep tom's from fighting then you are so mistaken that it's unreal. There is only ONE way to stop it and that's to let them establish their pecking order on their own.
Some of the things that you so called "experts" are putting out to people on here are so wrong that it kills me. OH and for all of the folks that told the little 16 year old goat all of the WRONG stuff keep in mind that I said the exact same thing that her vet told her later on today and it saved its life. I think that I am done with this site, you guys have a good one.

 

[KOTurkeyRanch]

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I think your the wrong one. If you have toms going to roost with blood literally pouring out, thats cruel! As a pet owner, i wouldnt let that happen. You need to keep down your numbers or get more coops for each tom.

 

[poultryfan73]

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I think your the wrong one. If you have toms going to roost with blood literally pouring out, thats cruel! As a pet owner, i wouldnt let that happen. You need to keep down your numbers or get more coops for each tom.

I agree thats so cruel to sit there and let another gobbler beat up another gobbler. You as a pet owner should step in and do something different. I do agree if you have more then one gobbler they will always fight and i undertsnad that. But like you said if they go to roost pouring out blood thats cruel. And why would you be done with this site.... its the most helpful forum!

 

[poultryfan73]

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When i first putt that other hen in he ran for a corner. I think hes just afraid because he lost a fight. The thing i dont understand is that he was always the dominant gobbler. Thats what doesnt make sense to me.

 

[KOTurkeyRanch]

Maybe he has gotten used to being dominant and its like a whole new change now, but idk.

 

[boxermom]

I had 3 toms and 3 hens last summer. They had all grown up together and got along fine. Then, one day last fall, one of the hens laid on the ground in front of me. The next day, 10 min. after I let them out of the barn, my DH told me we had a dead tom in the barnyard. There wasn't a mark on him except for a small slice mark on his back. I found that when I processed him. It wasn't even bloody. The only thing we can figure was the big tom grabbed him by the neck and strangled him. We ended up processing the 2nd tom that day too, because the big one was going after him. Now, 1 tom to 3 hens. Everyone is happy.

 

[A.T. Hagan]

I heard a ruckus from my turkey tractor some weeks ago. Walked over to see what the fuss was about to find all four of my toms earnestly trying to tear one anothers heads off. That was my sign that it was mating season. I moved three of them out and left one to do the deed. A week or so ago I swapped him out for one of his brothers. Thirty six eggs in the bator now.

Turkeys have their own nature. We are not going to change it. If you keep two toms together in the presence of hens they will fight until the matter is settled as to who gets to court the hens. They seldom do each other serious damage unless they are tightly confined. In this regard they are no different than chickens. Whether you keep them for pets or for livestock their nature is not going to change. All that we can do is plan for the inevitable.

.....Alan.

 

[thaiturkey]

I note the lessons here! Thank you. Our first turkeys are young poults and we have a suspicion that two, perhaps three, out of the five are toms! Time to act before they mature, I think.

 

[KOTurkeyRanch]

A.T. Hagan :

I heard a ruckus from my turkey tractor some weeks ago. Walked over to see what the fuss was about to find all four of my toms earnestly trying to tear one anothers heads off. That was my sign that it was mating season. I moved three of them out and left one to do the deed. A week or so ago I swapped him out for one of his brothers. Thirty six eggs in the bator now.

Turkeys have their own nature. We are not going to change it. If you keep two toms together in the presence of hens they will fight until the matter is settled as to who gets to court the hens. They seldom do each other serious damage unless they are tightly confined. In this regard they are no different than chickens. Whether you keep them for pets or for livestock their nature is not going to change. All that we can do is plan for the inevitable.

.....Alan.

My two toms get along fine together. They are a team! Even in the presence of my hen.​

 

[poultryfan73]

Day 4 of him being sick. Hes not really improving.. i hope he gets better quick. Im giving him 2 weeks before i end his misery.