Ok what is the best age for turkey butchering ?
Good question. It would have to depend on the breed. I'd say any time after they start to develop some fat would be good ... They would have have matured enough to have their meat by that time, right?
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Ok what is the best age for turkey butchering ?
This depends on which respiratory disease it is. It is false in most cases. Wild animals are much more a risk of spreading disease then birds that come from any flock that are not currently sick FYI.I hate to say it but respiratory disease in chickens are still bad news those that live remain carriers and you have to have a closed flock.
This depends on which respiratory disease it is. It is false in most cases. Wild animals are much more a risk of spreading disease then birds that come from any flock that are not currently sick FYI.
Which makes me ponder something, why is it so many are so paranoid about bio-security, yet let their birds free range? The two are NOT compatible with each other.
What a topical issue. Because of recent food safety proposals there is currently a lot of debate about the public health aspects of keeping poultry outdoors where they have access to other animals, domestic or wild. Some people say there is no proven link to free range/pastured poultry and the kinds of problems they are hoping to prevent with the proposed regulations to keep poultry secured indoors. "They" say greater public health risks come from indoor factory conditions and centralized processing.
It makes me wonder for sure.
But I would guess that many people here keep chickens because they prefer more natural livestock practices. That's certainly true for me.
Have you looked at standard brahmas ?
Well I agree with the natural practices (I don't vaccinate, medicate, or use any chemicals or artificial anything on my birds), but you can't have both ways. It just confuses me because you can't have both a "bio-secure" set up and yet let your birds range...it can't happen. I just keep things simple. And I'm talking about health risks to birds here just to be clear.
Ill be there in 3 hrsI now have a HUGE pot of turkey bone broth on the stove, including the feet. It was my first time peeling feet, and I'm so excited to know how to do it so my broths will have even more nutrition!
Corona I have Bronze Heritage and Narragansett Heritage No Broad brested .. 12 weeks ? Holy cow Where do i get Broad Brea sted Eggs ? AnyoneTammy,
If you have broad breasted commercial turkeys, they can be ready by 12 wks. I wouldn't let them go longer than 16 wks max or they can develop leg/heart problems. And they just get so huge, you can barely fit them in a roasting pan...think 40 pounds or MORE. If you have heritage type turkeys, it takes 8-10 months for them to develop enough meat to butcher.
Hope that helps.