From seeing your well educated prior posts there is little anyone on this board can do to make this issue much easier for you. All kidding aside as these characters grow up they will start eating a whole lot. After they are grown they continue eating a lot. It gets expensive.
If you have a relative excess of hens you may be able to get away with keeping them all without serious tom fights next spring but even with BSW, as opposed to larger varieties you will need a serious sizeable shelter for winter.
More likely your tom to hen ratio will be close to 1/1. Too many toms will mean worse spring fighting, shelter will become a problem and 11 full grown turkeys are just not as fun as the poult stage. Why keep that many unless you are starting a business?
Another consideration is propagation. If you intend to breed these BSW you will want to cull out the birds that don't meet standard etc.. If you can't eat them give the extras to pet homes or people who will start their own flock with them.
One last consideration. Now that you have turkey fever you almost certainly will want to add more varieties. Leave some room.
If you have a relative excess of hens you may be able to get away with keeping them all without serious tom fights next spring but even with BSW, as opposed to larger varieties you will need a serious sizeable shelter for winter.
More likely your tom to hen ratio will be close to 1/1. Too many toms will mean worse spring fighting, shelter will become a problem and 11 full grown turkeys are just not as fun as the poult stage. Why keep that many unless you are starting a business?
Another consideration is propagation. If you intend to breed these BSW you will want to cull out the birds that don't meet standard etc.. If you can't eat them give the extras to pet homes or people who will start their own flock with them.
One last consideration. Now that you have turkey fever you almost certainly will want to add more varieties. Leave some room.
