The increasing popularity is gained by cultivation of turkey poults. But some farmers are not ready to get and grow up this bird, referring to the fact that she weak, badly survives. Actually turkey poults require to themselves due leaving and great attention, than other bird species.
It is required to you
- - lamp;
- - feeding troughs;
- - drinking bowls;
- - cardboard or dense paper;
- - laying;
- - forage;
- - water.
Instruction
1. If you seriously decided to be engaged in cultivation of turkey poults, then it is necessary to begin to look after them from the first days of life. Choose for cultivation of mobile baby birds who well stand on feet, have the involved yolk, a zarubtsovanny umbilical cord. Down and an anus have to be clean, without any allocations. At little turkey poults the thermal control is developed badly therefore put baby birds to in advance obogrety room. Air temperature has to be 25-27 degrees, gradually it is reduced.
2. The first two weeks of life the humidity of air has to remain at the level of 72-75%, then 60-70%. Baby birds are very sensitive to the high content of poisonous gases in air. The amount of ammonia should not exceed 5 mg/m3, hydrogen sulfide - 15 mg/m3, and carbonic acids – 0.25%. Dusty air has negative effect on physiological functions of breath of turkey poults.
3. The condition for the maintenance of young growth is obligatory - it is the adjustable light mode. The efficiency and a physiological condition of a bird depends on its duration and intensity. The faltering light mode is most effective. From sixth week of cultivation the eight-hour light day is supported. Turn on the light twice a day: at 7 o'clock and 14 hours (for four hours). In the first days of life the round-the-clock lighting that baby birds found water and light is required.
4. Brudera protect at distance 50 centimeters for heat preservation, height of a protection has to be 40-50 centimeters. Cover in this zone a laying with cardboard or dense paper. Remove a wet laying (as laying use wood shaving of coniferous breeds, fresh straw, the crushed corn cores). Drinking bowls and feeding troughs place for a bruder that they did not prevent free movement of baby birds. After two-week contents the protection is removed.
5. A floor in hen houses has to have a hard coating. Two thirds of a floor have to be covered with levels, the rest – a deep laying. When keeping baby birds on mesh or planchaty floors the young growth grows well, but it can lead to namina of legs and a breast.
6. Turkey poults are quite exacting to quality of forages. The first time feed baby birds no later than in 16 hours after hatching. The lateness can lead to the fact that turkey poults begin to peck a laying. The first 10 days you feed them 8 times a day (every 2 hour), then reduce to 7 times. From 20 to 40 day 6 times a day are enough to feed.
7. The first days give to baby birds of egg, millet, kormosmes, powdered milk, wheat bran, cottage cheese. From two-week age include in their diet compound feed, greens, grass meal, shell rock, baking yeast, skim milk, bone meal. It is recommended to add to a forage young greens (nettle, a clover, fodder cabbage, a lucerne, a cock's head). With big hunting turkey poults eat green onions. Regularly change water in a drinking bowl. The polluted, sour and mouldy forages are the leading cause of death of baby birds.