A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[Feathyr]

Purina Game Bird & Turkey Startena contains

1.5% Lysine
0.5 % Methionine

I believe the Niacin level is at least 50 ppm.

Good to know, thank you!

 

[aliciaplus3]

thank you for reminding me that I am lucky, not only does my local feedstore(aka the company I work for just a different location) carry a decent selection of feeds, they are willing to humor me and order in just about any purina or ranchway feed I could want!


best of luck finding a sympathetic ear/ manager local to you!

 

[Molpet]

@R2elk

What are the recommended niacin, lysine, and methionine levels for turkeys? None of my turkey books cover it, as far as I know.

https://livestockconservancy.org/images/uploads/docs/ALBCturkey-4.pdf

 

[Bantambird]

I use Payback here, she carries it at my local feed mill. For the adult turkeys, I mix turkey grower and the mill's special scratch that has sunflower seeds, flax, corn, wheat berries, and peas. Not a lot, but they sure love it.
Payback gives you a free bag of feed for every ten you buy!
And the little old lady that runs the mill is super sweet. Only thing I can't get is turkey finisher, as I would have to order it by the ton because her distributor only sells by the ton, unless I wanted to pay 10 bucks extra per bag for organic.
She is one of the only carriers of organic turkey and gamebirds feeds around here.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Okay, if I were to get poults again, what do I do about feed? The feed store I used in the past is out of business, and the only 28 or 30% feeds I’m finding are only online (at TSC) and almost a dollar a pound due to shipping. I swear someone had a list of things to add to the 22% feeds to raise the protein.

Editing to add that the feed stores OneMountainAcres uses are too far from here to be logical for me.

I get mine at Cresson Feed mill. They have 28% starter. I have no idea if they do any kind of delivery service. You could always call and ask. They're great people there

 

[BullChick]

I get mine at Cresson Feed mill. They have 28% starter. I have no idea if they do any kind of delivery service. You could always call and ask. They're great people there

When my husband’s uncle was alive, I went there a few times. They were jerks to us. Regardless, it’s worth a try to ask.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

For the past few days, Miss Blackberry was disappearing every night and didn't know where she was. I did know what direction she was coming from but that was about it. Well, this morning we finally had a little snow on the ground. I called her for breakfast and she came to eat, all wet with a pile of snow on her tail. I managed to follow her tracks (which were actually really hard to see since the snow wasn't a nice, uniform layer) to a neat nest down a little bank, tucked up against a tree with a couple downed branches near it. It wasn't very protected but it was slightly sheltered. She had 10 eggs. I raided 9 and dropped one :/ They're all in my incubator now and she's back in the pen with one wing clipped. I told her that if that doesn't stop her from escaping, I'll be locking her in the cage inside the pen. She's less than a year old and a new layer....I think I might have just as much trouble with her as I do with Pebbles when she goes broody...

 

[OneMountainAcres]

The rotten brat escaped and went right back to the nest... even though I had already taken all the eggs and it was empty. She still complained like crazy when we were talking to her and removing her from her spot. Thankfully, she's a sweet bird through and through. She's now confined to the cage in the coop

 

[duluthralphie]

The rotten brat escaped and went right back to the nest... even though I had already taken all the eggs and it was empty. She still complained like crazy when we were talking to her and removing her from her spot. Thankfully, she's a sweet bird through and through. She's now confined to the cage in the coop

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That is one dedicated broody.

 

[aliciaplus3]

We collected 3 turkey eggs tonight. Set 12 on Sunday and its looking like we will have at least a dozen more this next weekend to put in....