put my teenager chickens and turkeys in with my 2 year old chickens and ducks. been there foe over a week. 2 days ago my big girls starting chesing down and killing the turkey teens. i brought the ones that are left back in. i do have one that had its feathers all torn out and it looks bad down to bloody skin. i read pine tar, neosporin and salt water help. i know she won't live but i want to give her a fighting chance!
Awwwwww, that is so sad that your older girls decided to fight the turkeys. I don't know wether she would live or not, but you could try. It does look pretty bad from here.
You might have to keep the turkeys and chickens separate. I only have chickens, so don't know if you can put them together.
This message was edited Mar 30, 2008 2:36 PM
it wouldn't be right if i didn't try my best.
Get a can of saline solution for contacts, it is pressurized and sterile. Keep it on hand for irrigating wounds and cleaning them out. If you can find a spray on antibacterial like bactine, that works well too and some have like a liquid bandage in them. It would be hard to keep an ointment on such a large raw area, but if she makes it and it scabs over it should be ok. Bird skin is so thin and fragile that any wound looks terrible, but it frequently heals well. I hope she make it.
Keep her fairly warm to help with shock.
We found out the turkey poults we mean to the littler chicks and the bigger hens protected the chicks. We no longer mix the two. Turkeys have their place but it isn't with the chickens!...just the dinner platter and until then it has to be a place of their own. ;-)
they were fine last year with the poults i had. just went out to check on the teens and the big girls were after them now! maybe they are just old,senile cranky biddies! time to go ladies.. my daughter put septi-clean dog and cat antibacterial spray on the one turkey. what else would be better? our poults hung around with the other teens including the mallards pekins and disabled older pekins. weird
sorry, hope she makes it. warm dry dark place will help.
We used pine tar on our one poult and nothing would go near her...she grew up just fine and made Thanksgiving table. Poultry doesn't like the smell of the pine tar so they stay away. No pecking then because the goop would go with the peck ;-)
I would ask your vet for some powder called Neo-Predef (with tetracaine powder) technical name: neomycin sulfate, isoflupredone, acetate, tetracaine HCI
This is a cautorizing powder that my vet gave me for Bob the duck when he was stepped on my a horse and skinned. They had never dealt with a duck, and this powder was made for cats and dogs. He looked worse then your turk, but the powder helped him regrow all of his skin, and even his feathers. It also has a pain reliever in it (which I think you need to give that bird). It would not be very humane to just leave it as it is, and putting it down may be the best thing for it. If you want to keep it, I would certainly ask your vet for this. I think I paid $3 for this bottle, and I used it for 3 months. The skin grew back after just 3 weeks though. So it is certainly worth it. Good luck with whatever you do.
We had a hen get part of her thigh ripped out by who knows what. It looked awful and bled quite a bit, you could even see the bone. We poured colloidal silver on it day after day and she healed up quite well. Colloidal silver is sort of antibacterial and helps things to heal.
I always read that turkeys carry diseases that kill chickens. Is this information wrong?
MollyD
Septi clean is fine. Frequently you can find antibiotic powder at a farm supply store. Look by the pig stuff. I have a bag that it tetricycline powder, since you are not dosing oraly, you don't have to worry so much about overdosing. I love aloe for animals too. I have found it with lidocane already in it, but even just the aloe helps with the pain and keeps the area from drying out too much.
Molly, chickens carry a disease that will kill turkeys...
yes, i had a hen, Purple Petunia, who was badly injured. in addition to colloidal silve, we fed her watermelon and kept her in the house. i wrapped ace bandages around her, don't know how she managed to walk...
she is still fine and laying well!
good luck,
tf
when i got up this morning she? was passed on. i guess it is better. doesn't make it hurt any less though. next year i just might raised stuffed animals. it has to be easier emotionally. thanks for all yous guys help. i wrote down all the hints. hopefully i won't have to use them. yeah right!
Sorry to hear that :(
Peeps, you have my sympathy. ♥ ♥ ♥
Peeps I am very sorry to read about your turkey baby. At least your baby is no longer in pain. I'm sure you are a very good mom. Sometimes these things happen and can't be helped
Thanks TF. Guess I got it backwards. Thanks for letting me know cause I want to learn this stuff right.
MollyD
Peeps, i am SO sorry! Yes, in-animate objects are much safer, cleaner, less expensive. But eventually they just don't please the heart the way rasing real ones do. I understand some days all this mess and heartache just doesn't seem worth the risk and time and energy, esp when they take a big chunk of your heart with them.
RIP, lil' teen turkey.
Molly, oh, just didn't want someone else to come across this thread one day & be looking for their chickens to be the sick ones...
No problem TF. Ya done good :-)
MollyD
