Hey y'all. What's the chances of an adult turkey having symptoms of coccidiosis? I just saw my 6 yr old tom poop and looked at it and saw it had some pinkish in it. No worms that I can see, but I imagine it's about time to worm them again. Just wondering if I should consider treating for...
He should be slowing down, yeah. If he stops for the year before I can notice the implant taking effect I'll keep him around at least until breeding season next year.
Hen's snoods generally sit up on their heads, they only lay down sometimes. Most of my hens with smaller snoods have theirs up most of the time. It's hard to see the snood here though because it's a tad blurry haha.
Oops, just saw this. As of right now unfortunately no change. He's still been mounting the females when they present. The man has spent all of his life pretty much displaying like 24/7 so I am afraid he has too much testosterone to be quelled, lol. I'm just keeping an eye on him for now. The hen...
She offered caponizing, but since he would need anesthesia it most likely would be far out of my budget. Bachelor pad idea is neat but Im honestly stressed out constantly by the small amount i do have right now that I dont know if adding another one will help haha. Thank you though!
I understand that for sure. If mine were breeders I definitely would not spend the money on them that I do, haha. I don't fault breeders at all. This has been a hard choice for me because I know keeping him around with his current breeding will also put my females at risk.
I was willing to...
I wasn't going to post about this here because I know everyone's going to think I'm insane, but I'm honestly interested in just talking about it for research type purposes and anyone else whose crazy like me in the future, lol.
I've had issues with my lovely tom turkey Griffon getting worse at...
girls new saddles came in!
i stupidly lost track of a couple of them during winter, and so i ordered some more. theres one specifically for one of my sweetgrass im going to try n find cuz it looks so good on her, but for now she has to wear an old faded one lol. these 2 girls though got the new...
Ughhh I hate poult time of the year every year, they're so goddang cute and every time I see them I want more... but I've told myself no more turkeys lol. I love these birds so much but good lord do I stress about them a good 80% of the day so I think I just need to let my birds live the rest of...
haha thank you so much! that's very sweet. : ) i don't draw as often as i used to, but it's still fun to dabble in every now and then! glad she likes it!
oh no trust me, he's trying! but she is not quite yet ready enough to be fully bred, she walks off when he steps on her tail lol. she always does this at the beginning of breeding season! also for some reason he's not very fond of any of the 3 younger girls quite honestly, not like he is with...
Nasty turkey girls get everything I can grab stacked on top of them until they get tired of it and leave.
Also miss blind lady Sparrow got a pen upgrade and also a dust bathing pool and she is pretty stoked about it. On the days when its too cold to go outside and I dont wanna temp shock her...
I'm officially joining the "Tom going broody" club. I found my 5 year old boy Griffon sitting on eggs in the coop in the middle of the day yesterday, and I found him in there again today. Very cute.
Edit: Here he is, and his little brood. Which won't hatch, considering sometimes he leaves and...
Has anyone had any of their turkeys... just lose their voice? It started the other day when my tom couldn't gobble anymore, he would try, make the movement and all, but nothing came out. He also couldn't make his angry noise at my mom like he usually does. I thought it was weird, but there was...