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dee k
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dee k asked in PetsBirds · 1 decade ago

Turkey chick problem?

my week old chick started rapid side to side head movements & died within a day,was eating & moving around normally in spite of this,have never faced this problem before,would like to know what was the cause & any treatment / preventive measures.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    They say never hatch babys in may they come out messed up that what all the old timers told me in the past it seems to be true i guess because of the weather and tempertures change so much But other than that Ive never see anything like what you are say happened Thanks John

    Source(s): 10 plus years raising poultry
  • 1 decade ago

    always have clean water and fresh food . bad water kills more birds than any thing else does. seems too early to have been a protozoan . must be bacteria.

  • 1 decade ago

    may be bird flu virus.

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