Health without chemicals

In short

• Never keep turkeys with chickens or on their ground: it is the only reliable protection against blackhead (histomonosis).
• New birds go into quarantine for at least 30 days, always.
• Look at the flock for 2–3 minutes every morning. A sleepy, fluffed-up turkey with drooping wings is ill.
• Sudden deaths, birds off feed and water, a swollen head, nervous signs: vet at once. Suspected bird flu or Newcastle disease must be reported by law.
• No antibiotics on your own initiative. After any medicine, keep to the withdrawal period for meat and eggs.
• Herbal preparations are support, not a cure for infectious disease.

What's inside

Chapters

1. Prevention before treatment
2. Blackhead: histomonosis
3. Healthy bird, sick bird
4. When to call the vet at once
5. Notifiable diseases
6. Common diseases of turkeys and guinea fowl
7. Parasites
8. Problems that aren't infectious
9. Natural support and the first-aid kit
10. Medicines, withdrawal periods and people
11. Common mistakes
12. Printable checklist

Worksheets

• Health diary
• Prevention calendar
• Quarantine and night check
• Health cost calculator
• Contacts and emergency steps