weighing live turkeys

[exop]

Anyone out there tried keeping track of your birds'weight - what kind of scale do you recommend?

Standing on a bathroom scale while holding a turkey does not seem optimal.... my scale, at least, which is an older scale with a spring and a dial, does not seem reliable and the reading will change if you shift your weight a little from one foot to the other. The precision must be something like plus or minus 3 pounds.

 

[casportpony]

For the young ones, I use a digital kitchen scale (see my avatar), but I think it has a 5kg limit. For the bigger birds, I use Mike and our digital human scale, lol. It's a pain, but for now it works. Just yesterday I was thinking that I needed a different scale so that I can do them by myself.

FWIW, I am very anal about weighing them... If one of them looks off, and it's lost weight, I know right away if it's sick and how much medicine/wormer to give it.