Hello everyone. I need some advice/information, and I trust you all a lot more than my local feed store! Just so you know, I'm very new to raising fowl. I have 4 young turkeys, and they are about 2 and 1/2 months old. I've been feeding them gamebird high protein chick scratch since birth, but really want to move onto something CHEAPER! I did talk to my local feed store and they said I should/could go ahead and start them on crushed corn. I bought a big 50 pound bag (for 4 birds!) so I hope you all don't tell me I wasted my money. Now, I can tell my turkey's don't like the crushed corn quite as well as the scratch, but they definately do eat it and it could just be that they are getting use to the change (I've only fed them the crushed corn 2 times so far). ANYWAY.....here is my question (yes, I actually do have one!)
I noticed on the bag that the crude protein is 8%, crude fat is 3% and crude fiber is 3%. WEll, my chick scratch had 28% crude protein, so it seems like a really big difference to go down to 8%! Of course at 2.5 months they aren't growing quite as fast now as they did in the first 2 months, and I know they can't stay on chick starter forever. But I just wanted to make sure I'm doing the right thing here.
THanks, in advance, for any information you can give about what I should be feeding my turkeys at 2.5 months and whether I should be using this Crushed Corn they sold me, and if I should supplement it with anything else. (grit, vitimans, chic scratch, probiotics, etc etc etc.)
kevin
I noticed on the bag that the crude protein is 8%, crude fat is 3% and crude fiber is 3%. WEll, my chick scratch had 28% crude protein, so it seems like a really big difference to go down to 8%! Of course at 2.5 months they aren't growing quite as fast now as they did in the first 2 months, and I know they can't stay on chick starter forever. But I just wanted to make sure I'm doing the right thing here.
THanks, in advance, for any information you can give about what I should be feeding my turkeys at 2.5 months and whether I should be using this Crushed Corn they sold me, and if I should supplement it with anything else. (grit, vitimans, chic scratch, probiotics, etc etc etc.)
kevin
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