Feeding turkey poults

[shelljf]

What is the best kind of feed for newly hatched turkey poults? If I have a brand, I can buy it off amazon.com.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Turkey starter feed... regardless of brand.

 

[KayHartZZ]

Very very very important to get turkey starter or gamebird- it has higher protein @30% I think. I saw the devastating result on turkey poults with the wrong balance of nutrients at a farm that I worked at 3 years ago- unfortunately I wasn't with the livestock but in the dairy kitchen or I would have been able to intervene earlier. The poults had no muscle tone and their legs became splayed around 3 weeks and they were after a week completely unable to walk

 

[Eggsoteric]

I start all my poults on a Gamebird Starter feed that contains at least a 28% protein level.

 

[R2elk]

What is the best kind of feed for newly hatched turkey poults? If I have a brand, I can buy it off amazon.com.

It can be turkey starter or gamebird starter or turkey/gamebird starter. If it has at least 28% protein it will also have the proper levels of lysine, methionine and niacin.

Good luck.

 

[R2elk]

Very very very important to get turkey starter - it has higher protein @30% I think. I saw the devastating result on turkey poults at a farm that I worked at 3 years ago- unfortunately I wasn't with the livestock but in the dairy kitchen or I would have been able to intervene earlier. The poults had no muscle tone and their legs became splayed around 3 weeks and they were after a week completely unable to walk

That was caused because of the lack of the proper amount of niacin in the feed.