In the breeding of chickens, geese, the ducks have their advantages, but one chicken is not enough to feed a large guest company with meat, but the turkey weighing under 20-30 kg will be quite enough. In addition, its dietary meat is distinguished by high nutritional and excellent taste, although the cultivation of turkeys is becoming more and more popular among farmers: Some breed these large domestic birds for personal consumption, others make a profit from the sale of meat, fluff and eggs.
Pluses of growing turkeys
But no matter how good turkey, the cultivation of them has its own difficulties and disadvantages.
If the turkey meat is so useful, why then are not everyone ready to abandon the usual chickens and geese for the grown of turks? What are the pros and cons of their breeding? Does it make sense to breed these poultry on his site?
Turkey is easily absorbed and does not cause allergies
First of all, it is worth noting, of course,: low cholesterol, a large number of important vitamins, amino acids and trace elements, the turkey is easily absorbed and does not cause allergies. The liver of turkey is no less useful - it has high content of beneficial folic acid and vitamin K.
Turkish growing video
You can buy turkey and in the store, but growing turkeys personally, you will be confident in complete challenge and freshness of their meat. If your family has pregnant or nursing women, little children, if someone from family members are engaged in severe physical labor or constantly suffers from stress and insomnia, it means that you should do the cultivation of turks!
Eggs of turkey covers in their taste and diet properties of the third place after quails and foresters, and after turkey eggs, they follow chicken. The only minus is that turbines bring fewer eggs than chicken.
Turkey from three months older quickly gain weight, ahead of this chicken
Those who are interested in the poultry farming financial side of the issue will be interested to know that the cultivation of turkey pays off quite quickly and begins to bring good profits. Especially if you consider that turkey meat is more expensive than chicken meat, and occurs on sale much less frequently. In addition, turkeys from three-month age quickly gain weight, ahead of this chicken. 60% of the lively turkey weight is a muscle mass, which is a useful white meat.
In order to obtain profits, you can implement:
- turkey meat
- eggs
- pooh and feathers
- young
- little turkey.
In the food turkey unpretentious, they can be fed with fresh wet mixers with vegetables and root
As for the turkeys, it suits the same room in which the chickens are usually grown, only nests for non-bumps need to be provided larger and to build piping in such a way that 40 cm of free space is provided for each bird. The poultry house should be light, dry and spacious.
In the food turkey is unpretentious, they can be fed with fresh wet mixers with vegetables and roots, feed, combine, hay. In summer, they are released on pastures, where turkeys feed on greens and insects.
Minuses growing turkeys
Many poultry builders do not risk engaging turkeys due to difficulties with growing small turkey. The risk of death of chicks in gentle age is very high. But if you know the basic rules, how to grow turkeys and care for young people, you have nothing to fear.
Many poultry farms risk engaged in the breeding of turkeys due to the cultivation of small turkey
That's what you need to remember, to prevent the death of the turkey:
- try to maintain +33 degrees in the first five days of the life of chicks, +27 degrees up to 10 days, +23 degrees after 11 days of life turkey;
- indusats with a white plumage, a temperature is needed higher than chips with a dark plumage;
- do not allow harsh temperature drops in the room where small turhesists live;
- when growing chicks under the turkey, it is enough to maintain a temperature of about +23 degrees in the poultry house;
- before the formation of skin growths on the neck of the young (by 5 weeks) is very sensitive to dampness - do not release birds into the yard when dew and rainy days;
- little turbines crushed food poured on dense paper so that they do not damage the keyboards about the hard surface, otherwise it can lead to their death.
Little turkey can not be kept with chickens and chickens, because as a result of joint living, the turkey can be ill enegpatitis. In contrast to chickens, turkey is more buggy, more susceptible to cold and do not get used to changing the situation or changing food. Spoiled feed can easily cause diseases and turkeys.
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Water turks pour only fresh, beno room temperature. Try to foresee such a design of the drinker so that small turksakes are easily delivered to the water, but could not climb into it. Food should also be constantly fresh: regularly remove abdicted residues from feeders, make meals immediately before feeding so that they do not scat, do not allow moldy and felled foods. As driller pollution and feeders need to wash.
Turkish cultivation is also complicated by the fact that they are stronger than the other types of poultry, prone to obesity. Prevent the obesity of turks helps adding more greens and herbal flour into their daily diet, the amount of grain is reduced. Birds, prone to obesity, make it move more.
