Turkey-cocks by right are considered as the largest agricultural birds as their weight sometimes reaches twenty kilograms. Meat of a turkey nutritious, has dietary properties and is easily acquired by a human body. The Yaytsenoskost of these birds is small therefore they are bred for receiving meat. The beginning poultry breeders are concerned by one question: how it is correct to support turkey-cocks?
Instruction
1. It is possible to grow up highly productive turkey-cocks on condition of the correct contents and leaving. As this bird of the majestic sizes, calculate density of its placement. No more than two birds have to fall on one square meter of a floor. In the center of the hen house establish one nest which has to be designed for five turkeys. Place males in the certain room to avoid traumatizing females.
2. Optimum temperature has to be maintained in the hen house (in the summer - 18-20 degrees, in the winter – 3-5 degrees) and there has to be always a fresh air. Sharp fluctuations of temperature negatively are reflected in a condition of a bird. Turkey-cocks badly transfer hard frosts, dampness and drafts. The laying in the hen house has to be always dry, for this purpose regularly air the room. As a laying use straw, shaving or dry sawdust which it is necessary to change every two weeks.
3. Duration of light day is of great importance for turkey-cocks. For this window have to be indoors located from South side that all area of the hen house was lit in the afternoon. Under windows make manholes with the warmed doors that turkey-cocks could come for walk freely. Equip the hen house with nests, drinking bowls, feeding troughs, perches and cindery bathtubs.
4. Turkey-cocks differ in the big need for amino acids, proteins of animal origin, vitamins A and E. For preparation of a damp forage use curdled milk or skim milk, add several types of grain, egg, cottage cheese, fish or meat and bone meal and greens. In feeding troughs always there has to be water and compound feed. In any forage, whether it be industrial mix or the self-made bourgeois, surely add vitamin, proteinaceous and mineral supplements (Felutsen, Ryabushka, Aminovitan).
5. As turkey-cocks are considered as a pasturable bird, during the summer period it is possible to lower expenses of forages. Allocate to a bird the platform for walking at the rate of twenty square meters for one bird. Equip the place with drinking bowls, feeding troughs and shadow canopies. Sow the area a clover, a lucerne, a cock's head, Vika, peas or oats.
6. During the winter period of a turkey sometimes face avitaminosis which develops because of a lack or absence of their organism of vitamin A. At a disease work of nervous system and digestive tract is broken. That to avoid it, give to birds in the winter sauerkraut, green hay, a clover, a nettle and wood brooms.