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  • From: Catherine Noble <cathie@dungog.net>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Urgent help needed for young turkey
  • Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:48:10 +1000

This young turkey literally flew off the back of a truck in front of my car this morning. He is quite young, white feathered, huge in the breast and small of leg and wing, and appears to be bewildered by the daylight and the space he is now in ( on a farm)
As far as I can tell, he's one of the commercially grown soon-to-be-frozen turkeys who are raised in sheds their whole short lives,so I'm not sure what to do with him(her?)
I know that these commercially grown birds are fed a special high protein diet to make them grow fast and tender, and I know that a sudden change in diet can do nasty things to a bird's internals, so I need some advice on
A)what should I feed it
B)how should I house it-if it's been in a shed all it's life an open cage in the yard might cause pneumonia?
C)Are there any special supplements (minerals, medications etc) that are required to maintain health?
D)Do I need to keep this turkey away from my chickens, or are the chickens more dangerous to the turkey? In the dim recesses of my memory,there is something about the two breeds being a bad idea to keep together, but I can't remember why?

I'd be grateful for any help I can get as I know nothing about turkeys xcept how to cook them,and they're not so common this side of the Pacific
TIA
Catherine




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