Turkey Weights Week By Week

[Seth Horban]

My family bought 6 broad breasted white turkeys for meat this year. We don’t think they are growing as fast as they should. Can anyone give us a week by week approximation of the weight they should be or at least at three weeks because they’re getting to that age.

 

[casportpony]

Welcome to BYC!
I googled and found this. No idea how accurate it is though.
Growth weight and cumulative feed consumption of Large White tom and hen turkeys

Age (weeks)	Toms Average Live Weight (pounds)	Cumulative Feed Intake (pounds)	Hens Average Live Weight (pounds)	Cumulative Feed Intake (pounds)
1	0.30	0.21	0.28	0.19
2	0.60	0.59	0.61	0.59
3	1.29	1.47	1.08	1.22
4	2.20	2.75	1.84	2.30
5	3.34	4.48	2.76	3.75
6	4.67	6.69	3.83	5.57
7	6.19	9.47	3.83	5.57
8	7.88	12.80	6.34	10.57
9	9.73	16.82	7.74	13.72
10	11.72	21.58	9.22	17.29
11	13.83	26.87	10.75	21.37
12	16.06	33.0	12.33	25.76
13	18.37	39.79	13.93	30.52
14	20.77	47.29	15.53	35.44
15	23.24	55.49	17.11	40.61
16	25.75	64.08	18.65	45.77
17	28.30	71.58	20.15	50.88
18	32.23	83.81	21.57	55.77
19	34.22	92.07	22.90	60.37
20	36.32	101.72	24.14	64.37
21	38.02	109.15	-	-
22	40.58	116.12	-	-

Source:
https://extension.psu.edu/small-flock-turkey-production

 

[Seth Horban]

Thank you, I’m surprised I couldn’t find this myself. I don’t think ours are growing at the right rate we’ll see if we can get them eating on their own. But I haven’t weighed them yet.

 

[casportpony]

When mine are young I weigh them on a food scale. This one is pretty good up to about 4.5 kg.