Turkey-cocks – the biggest poultry – at the correct sagination can reach the weight of 17-20 kg, a turkey – 9-11 kg. Meat of this bird is very useful as protein-rich and contains small amount of fats and cholesterol.
Instruction
1. Many mistakenly consider that turkey-cocks need to be fed in the same way, as well as hens. But turkey-cocks eat absolutely in a different way. Their feeding troughs have to have the form preventing dispersal of a forage, and water has to be pumped in buckets. For feeding use dry feeds (grain and compound feeds) and the damp bourgeoises (who are previously killed and the bulked-up rye grains).
2. In cold season (in the fall and in the winter) you feed turkey-cocks three times a day, in warm (in the spring and in the summer) – 4-5 times. Since morning and for the night give to a bird grain, and morning grain every other day has to move with sprouts.
3. Offer turkey-cocks the damp bourgeois in the afternoon. Add greens and a grass to mealy sterns in the summer, and in the fall and in the winter – the crushed hay and grass meal. It is especially useful to give in the winter a dried nettle which contains a lot of vitamin C. Connect it in bunches and you dry in utility rooms under a roof.
4. The most valuable component of a winter diet of turkey-cocks is the silo prepared from corn of dairy ripeness. Prepare it even in the fall, and add to the bourgeois in the winter. In the winter surely give to turkey-cocks carrots in any kind – the best dietary forage. Besides carrots offer birds of berry of a rowan or the needles of a pine, a fir-tree, a fir rich with carotene and vitamin C.
5. During the summer period of turkey-cocks by all means release on a pasture that birds had an opportunity there are insects, larvae, seeds of plants as it occurs under natural conditions. If there is no pasture, then hang a green forage bunches on nails or just put it in baby feeding troughs that turkey-cocks could eat it freely.
6. In day the adult birds (mass of 4 kg and efficiency of 18-20 eggs) have to receive 120 g of grain, 120 g of boiled potatoes, 50 g of flour mix, 30 g of hay flour, 70 g of juicy forages or greens, 15 g of cake, 10 g of shells or swept, 0.6 g of salt, 5 g of bone meal.
7. During a breeding season of turkey-cocks you feed 4-5 times a day, and separate males from females and feed up in the morning and in the evening the cottage cheese couched by grain, carrots.
8. Offer baby birds in the first days after the birth the eggs hard-boiled and rolled in semolina. For the third day of life it is possible to give the crushed greens, for example, the crushed green onions, however it is worth giving it in the morning as onions cause strong thirst. From two-week age offer turkey poults dry full-fledged compound feeds, putting them in the automatic feeder once a day (only on daylight).
9. The first two weeks of turkey poults you feed 8 times a day, try to do it at regular intervals. From early age the baby birds willingly eat greens therefore give more greens of a clover, nettle, a tops of vegetable of beet and carrots, cabbage leaves. At the age of one month the baby birds have to eat 6 times a day, and then 5 times. Arrange the first feeding at 5 o'clock in the morning, the last at 8 o'clock in the evening.