Young turkey poult with strange neck issues???

danielley101215

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May 4, 2017
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hey!! I work out at my boyfriends house and get paid to take care of their livestock and their poultry. They have a bunch of chickens and turkeys and stuff, and they just recently acquired 4 baby bourbon red turkey poults, about a week maybe a week and a half old. Three of them are totally fine and act normal, and the fourth is healthy it walks and eats and drinks and poops, but it’s got a super strange head and neck tilt, it’s head and neck lean to the side and it’s head moves and leans upside down and to the side and I think it may have some sort of neurological issue or could it be something else? Is there anything we can do to help this poult? My boyfriends family wants to do whatever they can to try and help the turkey and save it if they can, they accidentally bought 16 meat turkeys not knowing they were at the time and were super bummed and so they got these four bourbon reds to have some standard turkeys they can keep as pets so it would suck to lose it. Please let me know ASAP as we don’t know what’s going on and we don’t want it to suffer if something is going on. Thank you in advance for your help!!! :)
Attached are a couple videos and some pics.
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Nice video and pictures! What are you feeding it? Sorry to hear the little is not doing well. I am by no means an expert but it looks like wry neck to me. I would try giving it vitamins and, of course, wait for more experienced people to chime in!
Thanks so much I tried to get the best I could to show what the poor little guy/girl is doing. They are all eating the same feed and everyone else is okay, they are eating 21% crumbles gamebird crumble since they are young and need more turkey starter/ chick starter type feed.
What type of vitamin(s)? Do you think it’s possible to grow out of this or even recover?
Yes if anyone else has info please don’t hesitate to tell me
 

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