August Turkey Update

Turkey ready for butchering

A total of 13 Turkey went to the butcher. We lost one early on and one was born blind and had trouble gaining weight.

We fed the turkey a high protein diet and it paid off with little loss and healthy/heavy turkey.

15 turkey were very messy and required weekly changing of the sawdust in the pen. We are considering raising 6 at a time next year.

Broiler and Turkey update

Broiler Chickens at 5 weeks old.

Turkeys at 5 weeks old.

The Meat chickens and turkeys are now at 5 weeks old. We will start to make plans to have the broilers butchered at about 8 or 9 weeks and the turkeys in November.

We had one blind turkey that was having trouble putting on weight and only made it through 4 weeks. The remaining turkeys are looking healthy. They are beginning to make a lot of noise and flapping wings every so often. The fence on the turkey pen is about 6 foot high and so far has been keeping them in.