We purchased some turkeys from a hatchery in our state a couple of weeks
ago...they seemed to be fine when they arrived...we put them in a
brooder...gave them fresh water and turkey starter and kept them warm
but lost one about a week later...then since then we have lost five
more...in all we have lost six of the ten making for a quite a high
mortality rate...seems pretty high. I asked the hatchery about it and
they said they usually don't have a problem unless they have a bad
shipment...to me this seems like a bad shipment...as far as I can tell
we took good care of them...anyone have any ideas what may have gone
wrong?...I HAVE heard that Turkeys are susceptible to disease (this is
the first time we've tried to raise turkeys)...we have Story's guide to
raising poultry and have tried to follow all the guidelines listed in
the book.

We purchased some turkeys from a hatchery in our state a couple of weeks
ago...they seemed to be fine when they arrived...we put them in a
brooder...gave them fresh water and turkey starter and kept them warm but
lost one about a week later...then since then we have lost five more...in
all we have lost six of the ten making for a quite a high mortality
rate...seems pretty high. I asked the hatchery about it and they said
they usually don't have a problem unless they have a bad shipment...to me
this seems like a bad shipment...as far as I can tell we took good care of
them...anyone have any ideas what may have gone wrong?...I HAVE heard that
Turkeys are susceptible to disease (this is the first time we've tried to
raise turkeys)...we have Story's guide to raising poultry and have tried
to follow all the guidelines listed in the book.

Milli wrote:
We purchased some turkeys from a hatchery in our state a couple of
weeks ago...they seemed to be fine when they arrived...we put them in
a brooder...gave them fresh water and turkey starter and kept them
warm but lost one about a week later...then since then we have lost
five more...in all we have lost six of the ten making for a quite a
high mortality rate...seems pretty high. I asked the hatchery about
it and they said they usually don't have a problem unless they have a
bad shipment...to me this seems like a bad shipment...as far as I can
tell we took good care of them...anyone have any ideas what may have
gone wrong?...I HAVE heard that Turkeys are susceptible to disease
(this is the first time we've tried to raise turkeys)...we have
Story's guide to raising poultry and have tried to follow all the
guidelines listed in the book.

Was your brooder disinfected and clean before you put them in? If not,
did you use it for chickens previous to putting the turkeys in it?
Turkeys have to be housed away from chickens due to blackhead disease..

"Milli" <TheMilligans@txun.net> wrote in message
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We purchased some turkeys from a hatchery in our state a couple of weeks
ago...they seemed to be fine when they arrived...we put them in a
brooder...gave them fresh water and turkey starter and kept them warm but
lost one about a week later...then since then we have lost five more...in
all we have lost six of the ten making for a quite a high mortality
rate...seems pretty high. I asked the hatchery about it and they said
they usually don't have a problem unless they have a bad shipment...to me
this seems like a bad shipment...as far as I can tell we took good care of
them...anyone have any ideas what may have gone wrong?...I HAVE heard that
Turkeys are susceptible to disease (this is the first time we've tried to
raise turkeys)...we have Story's guide to raising poultry and have tried
to follow all the guidelines listed in the book.

It can be difficult to get turkey babies to eat at first. Did you make sure
you actually saw them all eating every day?

Tina



Yes...good question...that was a concern we had but they took to eating