Turkey Breeding For Fun and Profit - What You Should Know

If you enjoyed raising a few baby turkeys every
once in a while, you may consider raising a few
to adulthood and try turkey breeding for fun and
profit. The best part about raising
turkeys is the fact that they are your
males and females, and that they would have
already determined their pecking
order. It's not that difficult to do and
there's not much difference between what your
already doing, you just have a few adult turkeys
hanging around, and enjoy watching them raise
babies. If you don't raise your turkeys together
but purchase adult breeding turkeys, you will
have to let them settle into a flock and
discover their own pecking order before breeding
season.

You know it's breeding season for your turkeys
when the males began to strut their stuff. They
will then cover the female hens on a regular
basis for the period of about a week. She will
then begin to lay her eggs in the nesting box
you provided, if she is not laying them in the
box, try a different nesting box. Turkeys are
not super particular, but they do want their
nesting box big enough to be comfortable, and
small enough to be protective.

Turkeys will lay one egg a day, and perhaps give
a day off here and there. And slowly but surely
over a period of a week they will fill their
nest and begin incubating the eggs. Of course,
you can take the eggs away, get a turkey
incubator and incubate them yourself, they hatch
within about four weeks. An exciting time,
especially if you have children in the house.
Once your turkeys are healthy, you can begin
selling the babies to other individuals who want
to raise a bit of turkey meat themselves. Make
sure your turkey babies are healthy when you
sell them, or, raise them yourself and sell them
as adult turkeys ready to eat.

There are many benefits to breeding turkeys,
especially if you are one to want to raise them
organically. By breeding your own turkeys you
will know that they are organic from the get go,
and it's really nice if you allow them to free
range. You will still need a turkey house for
shelter and protection from predators but
letting the mama and babies out during the day
to range is good for all the turkeys and will
give you healthy fit turkey babies and mamas.
So, whether you are raising your turkeys for
meat or to get a few breeders of your own, start
out with the healthiest turkeys you can and you
will be sure to have the healthiest of babies by
breeding turkeys for fun and profit.

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Andrew Grey is the author of "The Essential
Beginners Guide To Raising Turkeys". If you
would like to learn the right way of turkey
breeding easily the first time from experience
people who have raised more than 250,000 turkeys
and avoid deadly and costly mistakes, find out
more at http://www.howtoraiseturkeys.com

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