main advantages of turkey - rapid weight gain, omnivorous, and of course, delicious meat.It is these qualities encourage owners to think about their own breeding areas of these birds.To grow a bird without problems, staying healthy, and was subsequently able to provide the same healthy offspring need painstaking care, which includes the construction (equipment) premises, maintenance of temperature and its adjustment, proper nutrition.
Feeding turkeys at home is intended to include:
- grain legumes and forage grasses (emphasis on buckwheat and oats);
- meal and cake (containing essential amino acids);
- flour of fish, meat, meat and bone, blood (source of calcium, amino acids, phosphorus and protein);
- green fodder (containing carbohydrates);
- needles (winter - such an important additional source of vitamin C);
- hay and straw (contain fiber, which helps the bird to digest food);
- acorns, nuts (the need to compensate for the fat and makes the meat juicy and tender).
Feeding possible after drying, hatchlings.Note - in the early hours of the food will not be completely eaten.This is due to the inability to swallow food in the first few hours after birth.The chicks while there are only learning to peck, but after seven or eight hours can already swallow and pour them food.
start feeding turkeys better with cool boiled and finely podroblennyh eggs mixed with semolina (semolina instead of shallow fit oats, wheat or barley), with the addition of shredded carrots and greens (also very finely chopped).
to the still weak beaks are not injured, the food is laid out in the early days on fanerku or cardboard.
first three days of feeding turkeys held on vosmirazovoy scheme (three hours, including at night).For two months (gradually removing the feeding, that is, increasing the time period) the number of feedings is reduced to four (the dosage will be increased).
Below is a chart on which you can conduct feeding turkey poults up to a month (the diet is designed for the head).
to six days:
- 5 grams of grain (millet, wheat groats, barley Durty);
- 2 grams of wheat bran;
- 2 eggs;
- 2 grams of cottage cheese;
- 3 grams of skimmed milk;
- 3 g greens;
- 2 grams of carrots.
From the sixth to the tenth day:
- 8 grams of grain (millet, wheat groats, barley Durty);
- 4 g wheat bran;
- one egg;
- 5 grams of cottage cheese;
- 10 grams of skimmed milk;
- 1 g of meat and bone meal;
- 0,2 g of yeast;
- 0,05 g fat fish;
- 8 g greens;
- 5 grams of carrots;
- 0,5 g shells, chalk;
- 0,1 grams of fine gravel.
On the eleventh day of the twentieth:
- 12 grams of cereal (Dirty barley, millet, wheat cereals);
- 4 g of corn grits;
- 5 g of wheat bran;
- 10 g of cottage cheese;
- 12 grams of skimmed milk;
- 5 g of meat and bone meal;
- 0.3 g yeast;
- 0,2 g of fish oil;
- 10 grams of carrots;
- 5 grams of boiled potatoes;
- 0.8 g of chalk and seashells;
- 0.1 g of common salt;
- 0,3 g gravel.
Next to a month:
- 20 g of grain;
- 8 g of corn grits;
- 8 g of wheat bran;
- 10 g of cottage cheese;
- 15 grams of skimmed milk;
- 8 g of meat and bone meal;
- 0.5 g yeast;
- 0,5 g of fish oil;
- 20 g greens;
- 12g carrots;
- 10 g of boiled potatoes;
- 1,5 g chalk with shell;
- 0,2 grams of salt;
- 1 g gravel.
The term "green" refers to a mixture of alfalfa, sainfoin, nettle, peas, quinoa, colza, sunflower, cabbage, turnips, carrots, clover, dandelion, green onions.And last - and even the prevention of intestinal diseases.Grown turkeys chalk, gravel and shell can be left in a separate trough.
is mandatory constant presence of pure water (not melted, not rain, not from the water).Once a week, in order to prevent perozisa (dangerous disease) ordinary water is replaced with a solution of manganese (weak, pale pink).
bowls with feeders kept clean (it is desirable to periodically scalded with boiling water).
As you can see, feeding and caring for turkeys is not particularly difficult.The main thing - to follow the regime, to monitor the quality of food and cleanliness.
