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  1. coltgrizzz

    Orphaned wild turkey

    So this morning my mom woke up to a surprise in her flock. A wild turkey was foraging with her birds. She resides in NJ and has a couple of birds of her own (including one turkey hen). Though turkeys are not that uncommon where she lives, we don't know where the bird came from. She allows my mom...
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  2. N

    Turkey with hole the size of a sand dollar!

    Can someone help me please!!! My sweet baby has been broody for some time now. I was regularly collecting eggs and urging her to get out and get food and water as much as I could, and I did not notice this spot until tonight. I feel absolutely awful:( what could have caused this?! She hasn't...
  3. M

    Dead turkey

    Hi, We live in montana and expect predators. New to raising turkeys. Early am something ripped head off turkey and left it with the body. Have two 2 puncture holes in another turkey by it's wing...marks are about 2 inches apart. Second one is alive. I have pictures but don't know if or how to...
  4. Pearlescent

    Baby Turkey still absorbing yolk trying to hatch

    I have a poult who has no egg tooth, but it’s pip was enlarged by its mother, who is also the cause if the missing egg tooth, and it wants freedom from the shell. I was going to let it do that, but then I saw a decent amount of un absorbed yolk still in the egg. How do I stop it from hatching to...
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  5. Pearlescent

    Cracked Turkey egg day before hatch date

    I was candling for internal pips in a Turkey egg on day 27, then the egg slipped out of my hand and fell 4 inches onto my desk. At first I thought it was ok and then I felt these cracks on the pointy end, membrane is fine, but the chick hadn’t pipped internally yet. It’s still showing movement...
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  6. Pearlescent

    Can a Turkey poult hatch without an egg tooth?

    I have a baby Turkey with no egg tooth, it pipped and lost the egg tooth at some point. Can it finish hatching, it has a relatively large pip. Definitely missing egg tooth. I think the hen I had it under had something to do with that, but it’s in the incubator and seems fine now. Edit: here’s...
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  7. Reiki Rooster

    Lethargic Turkey poor color

    I have a flock of turkeys, 2 brothers are the Tom’s, 1 of them had a severe mite infestation, no one else had mites but I treated everyone. My problem Tom has been mite free for 2 weeks now but he is just becoming more and more lethargic. I see zero wounds, none of the other turkeys show any...
  8. Reiki Rooster

    Turkey Healing from mites now lethargic

    I have a flock of turkeys, 2 brothers are the Tom’s, 1 of them had a severe mite infestation, no one else had mites but I treated everyone. My problem Tom has been mite free for 2 weeks now but he is just becoming more and more lethargic. I see zero wounds, none of the other turkeys show any...
  9. Pearlescent

    Giving Turkey poults to broody mother?

    I have been incubating my hens fertile eggs since July 1st. The eggs range from day 5-day 27. I would’ve loved her to raise them, except that she wasn’t Broody. But all of a sudden she’s gone fully broody, barely ever leaves her box, Poofed up, stopped laying. Definitely broody. Now I’m unsure...
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  10. katekate88

    Diluted Tiagard 12.5% orally for turkey hen?

    Hello! Can I give my adult turkey hen diluted Tiagard 12.5% orally via a syringe, getting the liquid carefully down her throat? She won't drink the medicated water even with sugar or with apple juice. If I can do this, could someone give me the dosage and dilution? She weighs about 8-10 pounds...
  11. Dfarago

    turkey plucking compared to chicken and duck

    We have turkeys on our farm this year but we're a little nervous about dispatching them. We went through chickens no problem and with ducks the plucking got so frustrating before we had a plucker we would just skin them but now the plucker does 80% of it and we're not sure if that will be the...
  12. PNWskye

    Heritage poults. First time mama. Curious about if they’re boys or girls.

    They’re 2 1/2 months so this is just an educated guess I’m asking for. 😅 I feel like a new chicken mama asking the question. The smaller one cries a lot and wants nothing to do with humans. The bigger is a little more approachable and does the took-took noise. No displaying. Second and third...
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  13. Dfarago

    Is this normal for a turkey?

    My two month old broad breasted turkey has a big, what looks like a growth, on its breast. This is my first time growing turkeys so am I just freaking out over nothing? Simple Google search says it could just be a fatty deposit which is normal, or blisters. I'm just concerned because none of the...
  14. Pearlescent

    Are these eggs developing?

    This my first time incubating eggs, and it’s my own turkeys eggs. I witnessed a successful breeding, so they should be fertile. I can find very little about Turkey egg development, so I figured I might as well post here. Breeding was one June 29th. I think egg 1 Is a dud, but I’m leaving it in...
  15. LaurenMox

    Turkey's mate(?) passed away

    Hello everyone. My Tom, Jim passed away this morning and I am not sure what to do with our female, Tim. Jim and Tim never successfully mated, they used to try occasionally but it's been months. They never really got along either, he was super submissive and friendly for a male and she is...
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  16. Pearlescent

    What variant of Turkey is this?

    I have recently gotten this gorgeous boy, he isn’t as friendly as my hens but he’s not crazy either. I believe that him and my Auburn hen have successfully bred (as I watched it happen) and I realized it’d be good to know what he is. I couldn’t find anything like him online. His feathers appear...
  17. S

    TSC turkey poult belly button

    Hi! I got 4 turkey poults from TSC on Thursday, today one started seeming very weak and lethargic so I brought him inside and put him in his own box with food and water (and a brooder heat pad). I’ve given him electrolytes through a dropper and he’s not eating. I checked his butt for pasty butt...
    • Sydney1133
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  18. EggAndTofu

    Keeping Flys Off Turkey?

    I have a separated turkey hen, Egg, in a pen near my coop while she recovers from a injury due to another Turkey hen. Her wound is healed over but a large scab remains. Recently I noticed Flys swarming around Eggs head (Where the wound is located), they seem to be bothering her a ton causing...
  19. R

    Imprinting

    We had a random female turkey show up at our place last week. Not sure what breed. We 1st thought wild turkey, but she isn't afraid of humans at all! In fact she's taken to following me around everytime I'm outside. The turkeys I raised from chicks don't even do this. We called around our...
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  20. R

    Hello from one bird person to another

    Hi. I have a small acreage in the middle of nowhere Kansas. I have a mixed breed flock of about 30ish laying hens. I have mainly New Hampshire reds, and white rocks, with some barred rocks, an olive egger or 2, a couole of wyandottes, a few older faverolles, and a couple of mixes that I've...
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