TheSeedObsesser
Deeply Rooted
...Turkeys, White Broad-Breasted (Industrial type) turkeys! I thought I'd start a thread to document my 4H project for this year. We've just picked them up today so this would be Day 1. I've got six of them and I'm raising them with chickens because I've read that they are slow learners - they sure are! (If your are wondering, the chickens are Partridge Rocks.) I have to give the turkeys credit though, as they are functioning better than I expected. They could not eat plain food so I made mash out of it. I also had a few poults that would stick their entire heads in the water to get a drink, for that I put gravel along the bottom of the water dish to prevent them from sticking their whole heads in. I put some apple cider vinegar in their water, might put some colloidal silver in down the line, there's no way that I'm using antibiotics. I was a little nervous about doing turkeys at first as the neighbor's did them last year and only had two survive out of nearly twenty, no casualties yet and they are doing great. Here are pictures: