At this time of year, we regularly receive calls about the best way to manage turkeys in the hot weather. Hot sunny days can certainly be a problem for poultry, and remember hot sultry nights in the hen house can be equally as difficult. Shade is essential, and during the day your poultry must have somewhere they can get out…
Cool Turkeys We have had a number of calls from turkey keepers concerned about heat stress in their turkey flock, and with the recent ‘very hot days’ it can be a problem. But do remember it is the hot sultry nights in the hen house that can cause most problems, and particularly so if it is overstocked and unventilated. Below are just a few simple…
As you know to encourage or turkeys to lay more eggs we collect them twice daily, and these we either incubate ourselves, sell on as fertile eggs to other enthusiasts, or they go for the table. Then at the end of the season, we positively encourage our girls to sit a clutch for themselves and undertake the rearing process as…
The turkeys are starting to lay more regularly and we are collecting eggs and incubating them. The next stage is candling to see if the eggs we set are fertile, and then it’s another wait to see that they are hatching well. At a few months old the poults have sufficient feathering for us to get an idea as to whether the pairings have gone well and the results are…
With the turkeys now showing strong signs of mating, it is important to remember the necessity for segregation if you want to effectively manage your breeding groups. You really must put your breeding groups together early and keep them segregated. By early I mean before treading actually begins. If you wait until you see dislodged feathers in a pen before you…