Turkeys sold out everywhere

[PurpleChicken]

I wanted to order a few turkeys to have for Thanksgiving. Having fresh turkey
and giving away a few fresh birds to close friends and family would have been
great. Trouble is no hatcheries have any. Moyers can ship on 9/11 but they need
at least 90 days to mature and even that is young.

Oh well there's always next year.

 

[MissPrissy]

As slowly as my turkeys seem to be growing getting them in April and growing them out until late November is still a smallish bird. I can't imagine my turkeys now being large enough to butcher at Thanksgiving. Perhaps when the weather begins to cool a bit they will start to gain weight. I have no real idea

 

[PurpleChicken]

Check out
http://www.meyerhatchery.com/get_item_dtw_bb-white-turkeys-sr.htm

The reviewer said toms at 24 pounds and hens at 20 pounds @ 16 weeks.
Of course they could be full of poopy.

Do you keep your turkeys with your chickens?

 

[MissPrissy]

I don't keep the with the chickens. They have their own room in the barn. I am waiting until next March and then I am ordering Bourbon Reds. I want to try my hand at raising a heritage breed.

 

[bobbieguyette]

Could be the hatcheries have the same problem I did this year the turkeys went on strike right in the usual height of laying season:| my hens up and stopped for 2 months and now just started laying again the weather really effects them too hot too much rain or too cold they stop laying them bratts!