05/28/2026
Poor Jinx. Before she came to me, she had broken her beak and her nice person took her to the vet and gave her a round of antibiotics while she healed. She even trimmed her beak while it was healing because, if you know birds, their beaks are always growing and of course she wasn’t using it as a shovel to keep it filed down because it was tender. It grew back straight! What a relief. When she came to our farm, I got some special nail clippers to prepare to keep her beak maintained but before I got the chance to- one morning I went out to find her with a perfectly filed beak! This was a sign her beak was healed completely! It’s really an amazing thing. I remember helping my little piglet, Guapo, through a mouth wound last year. It’s a hard one, because of course we all use our mouths all day. Anyway, she got through that, and even got through losing her 3 chicks earlier this year, and now she got her bell rung by some passerby dog. Bad luck that these things keep happening or good luck that she always pulls through? Jinx is a very rare Recessive Slate Heritage Breed Turkey. Up until a few years ago, this breed was extinct in the Americas (their native home). I’m working on building their numbers back, but they’re still few and far between. I don’t know of any other breeder in the state of Indiana. Maybe this post will help?
