A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

Molpet said:

And mine fight over corn

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The juvenile birds hate it. The grown birds prefer it. Kinda how I used to prefer cookies and still do but I have to eat broccoli instead now. Not the same thing? Oh ok got it. Here I go again talking to myself.

R2elk said:

And I don't feed corn to any of my poultry.

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Our feed mix has it in it. Our birds are healthy and do quite well. The turkeys get more pellets in their mix than the chickens. The turkey we butchered was very plump and well nourished, with some nice yellow fat and nice plump breast fillets. Corn is not poison or anything. Unless you're on a low carb diet. Lol

kfelton0002 said:

Our feed mix has it in it. Our birds are healthy and do quite well. The turkeys get more pellets in their mix than the chickens. The turkey we butchered was very plump and well nourished, with some nice yellow fat and nice plump breast fillets. Corn is not poison or anything. Unless you're on a low carb diet. Lol

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Never said corn was poison. It is a low protein, high fat food. The all flock that I feed does contain everything the birds need so there is no need to feed extras.

R2elk said:

Never said corn was poison. It is a low protein, high fat food. The all flock that I feed does contain everything the birds need so there is no need to feed extras.

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We like to keep the birds on a grain and pellet mix. They would be foraging for grain and seeds in the wild so it's a balanced natural food for them with the right pellet to grain ratio. That's how we have fed for years. You can up the protein by adding extra calf manna or pellets too for conditioning birds or during molt.

R2elk said:

And I don't feed corn to any of my poultry.

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kfelton0002 said:

The juvenile birds hate it. The grown birds prefer it. Kinda how I used to prefer cookies and still do but I have to eat broccoli instead now. Not the same thing? Oh ok got it. Here I go again talking to myself.

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I buy a bag a year or walk across the road every other year and gleen my cousin's field after harvest.
I throw some in a pen to get them use to going in so they are easier to catch.

kfelton0002 said:

We like to keep the birds on a grain and pellet mix. They would be foraging for grain and seeds in the wild so it's a balanced natural food for them with the right pellet to grain ratio. That's how we have fed for years. You can up the protein by adding extra calf manna or pellets too for conditioning birds or during molt.

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As I said the all flock I feed has everything they need. There is no need for me to worry about upping the protein by buying even more things. There is no need for me to be concerned about whether the birds are getting too much "treats" either.

Just got a small batch out of the incubator. 4 from Ghost (blue sweetgrass) and Harvey (semi penciled harvest gold), and 1 from the SG. Ghost has been going broody off and on. The markings on Ghost's poults vary from typical BWB looking as cornish palm and tiger bronze look, then some have very dilute markings. The ones with dilute markings have been blues so far, what varieties exactly I don't know yet. But should get some interesting birds from Harvey and Ghost.

Molpet said:

I buy a bag a year or walk across the road every other year and gleen my cousin's field after harvest.
I throw some in a pen to get them use to going in so they are easier to catch.

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Lol all of my birds are so feed motivated they are no trouble to catch with feed.