Feeding turkeys, what food is needed for turkeys.
1- Turkey feeding for turkey chicks
Turkey chicks, like other poultry chicks, do not need to eat or drink in the first twenty-four hours of their lives.
Because they use the yolk stored in their body. But after this period, they need enough food. The amount of food that chickens need in the first four weeks of life is 450 to 500 grams. Little by little, this amount is more. will be
At the age of six weeks, when the weight of chickens in some breeds reaches about one kilogram, the amount of food required for them is about one and seven hundred to one and one kilo and eight hundred grams.
Turkey feeding
Turkey feeding
The growth of turkeys is fast until the age of seven to eight weeks and reaches its maximum size at fourteen to fifteen weeks.
Then the growth is not very fast and remains constant at the age of twenty-one to twenty-two weeks.
As a result, the amount of food consumption is fixed.
The amount of food consumption varies among turkeys based on age, breed and sex.
Normally, the male consumes more food than the female.
The conversion rate of food in turkeys is one to three. That is, instead of eating three kilograms of food, they produce one kilogram of meat.
2- Feeding for young turkeys
We said that after hatching, turkey chicks do not need food for twenty-four hours.
After this period, in the first fifteen to twenty days, when the turkey chicks eat poorly, they should be taken care of.
A kind of food ration for young turkeys
Two eggs – one kilogram of cooked corn or cereal – a few finely chopped leaves and some salt.
We mix these ingredients with some milk and give it to the chickens.
3- Nutrition for young and fattening turkeys
After twenty-four to thirty-six hours, one palm-sized piece of dry white bread for every twenty chickens
That is, we soak it in milk or buttermilk to a length and width of five centimeters and a thickness of two and a half centimeters.
After the bread is well soaked, we provide it to the turkeys on clean beds with some sand.
In the same way, until the ninth day, we should feed the chickens five times a day.
From the 9th to the 28th day, chickens should be fed three times a day.
That is, we divide the same five meals into three meals, so that the amount is not reduced.
Two types of turkey diets
To prepare a suitable ration, the following mixture of ingredients and seeds can be used to prepare 100 kg of food:
Twenty-five kilograms of semolina particles or sixty-five kilograms of grain semolina including corn, wheat and barley
Twenty-five kilograms of oatmeal or twenty kilograms of wheat bran
wheat bran twenty-five kilograms or alfalfa leaves fourteen kilograms wheat flour fourteen kilograms alfalfa powder ten kilograms salt one kilogram
For each turkey, up to one hundred and fifty grams of green fodder should be considered daily.
4- Feeding for breeding turkeys
Only one type of food cannot meet the needs of turkeys.
Therefore, you should always use several types of food in feeding turkeys.
Fodder and vegetables should also be included in the diet of turkeys.
Fresh and crisp hay, fresh green fodder or grain sprouts, chopped so that there are no long strands, are suitable.
All such ingredients can be given to young turkeys once or twice a day.
Normally, at the age of eight weeks, turkey chicks can be introduced to the pasture or playground.
In general, the following food sources can be used for turkeys:
Cereal plant seeds, especially grains such as corn, wheat, barley, and rice
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