Europe and America appreciate and consume large quantities of turkey meat, but in our country the product is used in the form of high-tech materials.Use turkey meat for the manufacture of sausages, smoked meat, ham and sausages.
Breeding turkeys
process of breeding of this bird is not so difficult as it might seem at first glance.The turkey is resistant to low temperatures, which allows you to engage in cultivation of a bird, even in the north.Two years bird sufficient to set 30 kg weight.The very rich and the meat has a delicate flavor, has a number of essential amino acids.Eggs - one product derived from turkeys.Useful properties of these eggs exceeded even chicken.
Difficulties arise most often during rearing.Here you need to know the right approach, to determine the place of detention and, of course, learn what to feed turkeys for their proper and rapid growth.Let's try to answer these questions.
Choose room
main condition - it is light and dry in selected housing for turkey poults.Most of the birds spend their existence is on the floor, so the Calculate area.For five individuals required per square meter.Adults are individuals per one meter will fit only two.Have solarium (backyard area) is mandatory.He should take up most of the room.Sex can be concrete, wood or earth.Area for walking enclose a high grid.Installed from the front doors allow small birds go at her request.Doors should be done in the 30-35 cm from the floor, as well as top obtyanut grid.
Home
Very young chicks live in cages, the laid paper.It is necessary to provide that little feet turkeys do not fall through the cracks of sex.The cage can be purchased in a specialty store or make at home.Cells are cells 16 * 16 or 24 * 24, the floor is 3 mm thick.The height of the cells is not more than 50 cm. In the area of 0.4 square meters placed turkeys under the age of 10 days.It is necessary to heat the space cells such special lamps.Consultants specialized shops will help to select all the necessary equipment, including feeders and waterers.
What to feed turkeys?
Unlike most birds, turkey rather choosy with food, especially turkeys.Growing young animals require careful attention to their diet in order to get a result of meat with good taste.Food must be different freshness, variety and availability of nutrients: carbohydrates, fats, proteins, macro- and microelements and vitamins.The need for protein
covered by ¼ protein animal feed.Fat for juveniles should be 5-6% of the diet.This makes the meat juicy and tender.
On the question of what to feed turkeys, no single answer.They are very fond of nuts and acorns with a high content of fat.And it is excellent at this diet poultry meat is very tasty.
Crude fiber should be 3.5 - 5.5%.It can be fresh greens.I feed her young with three days of life.Prepare also mash of buttermilk or yogurt.Well suited crumbly porridge with milk.And two weeks the kids will be happy to eat the cheese, grated carrots, potatoes and fish.Young chicks are seeing is very bad, so drinkers and feed should be jabbing beak.
should also be aware of what to feed turkeys, to provide them with the proper digestion of food.The individual feeders need to pour chalk, charcoal crushed, shells and gravel.Drinking water is taken at room temperature.Twice a week is necessary to give a weak solution of potassium permanganate, it will protect the baby from the ventricle microorganisms.
Good luck and profitable business!
