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Good Morning Sunrise (Sick Turkey Lab Results Update)

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Love the pic along with the caption! Good job
 
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Captain Hooks! Love the photo.

As Andy says his feet and legs do look nasty...maybe a clue to the local mortality?
 
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Andy S.":2e4gq34s said:
Congrats Adam, nice hooks. His feet look nasty and scaly, was he sick or healthy looking? Any black scabs?
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Very sickly and emaciated with black scabs/warts on his head, joints, beard base, etc. I called TWRA Region 1 and they got the head and are sending for testing. This is in Madison Co on a farm with a very healthy turkey population. Lots of trail cam pics, and I never saw anything like this. He was a subordinate turkey in a flock with 2 other gobblers. All the others appeared fine. Hoping it's just this bird and not a bigger problem.

 
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Good deal, glad you made Region 1 aware. As you stated, hopefully it's an isolated case, let us know what you find out.
 
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gz on the bird, SHARP spurs! (birds that are subordinate don't fight and wear down their spurs as fast). Any chance those are old (3-4 wk) wounds from fighting? Last year when I had 2 toms and they started fighting, both ended up pretty bloody before I broke them up.
 
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megalomaniac":2z0vnkls said:
gz on the bird, SHARP spurs! (birds that are subordinate don't fight and wear down their spurs as fast). Any chance those are old (3-4 wk) wounds from fighting? Last year when I had 2 toms and they started fighting, both ended up pretty bloody before I broke them up.
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Glad you chimed in Mega. This definitely did not look like fight wounds. The whole back of the head was covered with black scabs and the snood was weirdly swollen with the end of it black and dead looking. Even the beard base had a few wart-like places on it and strands were falling out. I've seen turkeys with jacked up feet, but with the head issues, I have to think they are related. Does this look like "blackhead," and if so, it that a huge deal or are isolated episodes of disease normal in a turkey population?



 

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