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  1. iwltfum

    Thinking about Turkeys

    Ok. You can fit poultry in a pretty small area and I have places on my property where the chickens have completely defoliated and turned to dirt patches over the years from constant chicken scratching and pecking, but my orchard is sacred. I'm pretty picky about what animals come through my...
  2. iwltfum

    Thinking about Turkeys

    My BBW's certainly weren't getting up into any trees. I thought they would before I started running them through my orchard, but nope. They do a great job fertilizing though and eating up pests. r2elk might have a point about the manure load. 2 or 3 turkeys in a 10k sqft area for a couple months...
  3. iwltfum

    Thinking about Turkeys

    I would move them personally, but 10k sqft isn't really a whole lot of space to work with. I read that as 90k sqft initially. I would probably split it into four pieces of 2500sqft each.
  4. iwltfum

    Thinking about Turkeys

    You might have been planning on this already, but I should add that you will likely want to rotate the turkeys around your orchard several times while growing them. I usually rotate paddocks around 7, 8, maybe 9 times over the 13-15 weeks that I grow turkeys from late July-November. They will...
  5. iwltfum

    Thinking about Turkeys

    It would help if we knew if you intend to grow a fast growing meat variety of turkey or a heritage variety. As long as the electric fence is hot enough to deter large predators from getting in and secure enough to keep predators from digging under, the turkeys will be big enough to be fairly...
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