I brood my newly hatched in a 100 qt tote. They are on pine shavings, under a 100w bulb. I put a piece of sponge rubber shelf liner or corrugated paper on one side of the tote, and use a 4" hardware cloth fence to keep them in the warm side for the first three days. Then I remove the partition, and move the food and water farther from the warm end for the next two days.
My turkeys are now four days old and are happy and active. They have had nothing but gamebird starter and fresh water. They will stay in the tote until the meaties are processed and I play musical birds. They'll be in a rabbit hutch for a while because I don't have enough pens for the different aged birds right now, and that has a wire floor.
Because my poults are started indoors, cocci is usually mild if it hits at all. It's when they go outside, into a grow out pen, that they are finally exposed to cocci. And that is when I use Amprolium. It simply keeps the number of cocci at a level where the birds can live through the first bout.
My turkeys are now four days old and are happy and active. They have had nothing but gamebird starter and fresh water. They will stay in the tote until the meaties are processed and I play musical birds. They'll be in a rabbit hutch for a while because I don't have enough pens for the different aged birds right now, and that has a wire floor.
Because my poults are started indoors, cocci is usually mild if it hits at all. It's when they go outside, into a grow out pen, that they are finally exposed to cocci. And that is when I use Amprolium. It simply keeps the number of cocci at a level where the birds can live through the first bout.
