So... the turkey has chlamydia.
We had been running the turkey for a few weeks and she was steadily improving. We got her up to 9 mph (the end-goal is 11)! She was doing really well.
Then she started not doing so well. She seemed really scared and agitated for some reason. We couldn't really think of why, except that 4 guinea fowl had moved in with her recently, but that shouldn't be too stressful.
One day we get the turkey on the treadmill and she starts running. At this point, I suspected that I was allergic to the turkey, so I was keeping my distance. At a very slow speed, less than 3 mph she lets out this impressive amount of diarrhea. It's a nasty color, and nasty smelling. Usually poo falls off the treadmill as the belt travels under the treadmill, but this stuck and went all the way around, meaning it caught on the flap that keeps the turkey on. GC started to clean it up, and I went to go get air freshener. Every time GC got it all wiped up, the turkey would do it again. GC put her back in the coop with the guinea fowl and we mopped up the entire floor, and I turned on the treadmill to a low speed, then used one of those brushes you see zoo workers use to scrub elephants and hippos to scrub the treadmill and get the diarrhea out of the belt. The smell traveled throughout the entire building, and people who work on the other side came by to see what smelled so bad. We opened the windows and left early that day. The sad part was, we were thinking of getting ice cream too, but we decided that if we ate anything we would barf.
A few days later, the vet comes out and takes samples from the birds and says that the turkey has chlamydia, we should quarantine all the animals, and that we should probably alert our healthcare professionals. So I'm going to the doctor tomorrow to get tested for chlamydia.
I miss cockroaches.
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