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Turkeys and chickens together...questions
I start turkeys on game bird crumbles and after about two weeks switch to chick starter. I don't really keep track of when I switch them. When I think they are big enough I pit some pellets on top of the chick starter and if they eat the pellets you can switch their feed. -
Turkeys and chickens together...questions
You can keep chickens and turkeys together, However there will always be a chance that the chickens spread diseases to the turkeys. Personally I haven't had any problems with keeping chickens with turkeys. Layer pellets for chickens are fine for turkeys to eat. -
gonna be turkey owner soon!!! need lots of info...
@ pine roost it depends for heritige turkies it's too small but it is not for meat turkeys. Turkey hens should have about 200 sqaure feet during breeding season. -
What should I sell my free range turkeys for at butcher weight?
Broad breasted get huge fast. In 20 weeks a Tom will be pushing twenty pounds. A standard bronze will grow much slower and will be about twenty pounds in eight months. There is a tread here about the price of a heritage turkey and a lot of people sold their birds for fifty dollars. A broad... -
very new turkey owner! how do i tell sex?
If he struts then he is definitely a tom. -
Standard Bronze Turkey Hen won't stop laying eggs
You're welcome:) All the eggs wont be good, but you can try to incubate if you want, or you can toss the eggs and start over. Then you can collect the eggs every day and incubate them. -
Standard Bronze Turkey Hen won't stop laying eggs
I don't think anything is wrong...... I would consider you lucky for getting that many eggs. -
Should turkeys roost outside at night?
Sims, I think the only problems you will have are the raccoons(I don't know if weasels can climb) so might have to kill some of the raccoons if any come to try to eat them. Or you could get guardian dogs if that is an option. I think they are one of the reasons we don't have problems with predators. -
Should turkeys roost outside at night?
My turkeys roost outside and I haven't had a problem with it. It all depends on weather or not you have a lot of predators where you live. -
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is this normal poult behavior?
It's a defense mechanism nothing to worry about. -
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Hatching eggs
I have never had my turkeys first year of eggs not hatch. All the hens that I have had have laid fertile eggs and laid lots of them their first year. What state do you live in? I live in Fl so climate might have something to do with your turkeys not laying. -
Age at harvest?
I would assume that it already has some good fat on it of it is that old. Most people slaughter broad brested birds at sixteen to twenty weeks so the bird is right around age. A 20-25 pound tom will have about seven percent if is body weight in blood and feathers and about 20 percent of it's... -
Sexing Narragansett poults
Whoops, forgot about vent sexing. Isnt vent sexing where you squeeze the vent and see what comes out instead of looking to see what is in the vent. -
Sexing Narragansett poults
I don't think so. If there is a way I don't know of it. -
Age at harvest?
When you think they are abbot ready to harvest pinch the skin on the breast. If the bird is ready then the fold will be whitish or whitish- yellowish and pretty thick. This means that the bird has been sufficiently fattened. Unfattened birds will have thin skin that is semi trasparent and reddish. -
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Question for the turkey 'people'.
I have a rio grande hen that has a beard, she got while growing up. She acts like a hen, but she has that beard. I don't know if yor situation will be different because I have a Tom and you don't. -
Question for the turkey 'people'.
I have a rio grande hen that has a beard, she got while growing up. She acts like a hen, but she has that beard. I don't know if yor situation will be different because I have a Tom and you don't.