Rearing Turkey Organically - Tips You Need to Know In Raising Turkeys

If you have chosen to rear turkeys for yourself,
you may want to try rearing turkey organically.
It is really not that difficult especially if
you have an area that they can roam freely once
they are old enough.

You will want to be careful about diarrhea with
your young turkeys as most turkey farms deal
with this on a regular basis. They will use
antibiotics in the water in order to keep the
turkeys from dehydrating. If you're going to do
it organically, people have had success by using
acidophilus in the water to keep the turkeys from
getting diarrhea in the first place. If your
turkey has had diarrhea for several days you're
going to have to switch to antibiotics, which of
course no longer makes them organic, but it's
better than losing the turkey. Your babies are
going to become important to you, and providing
them with the proper housing, food, and herbal
medications to keep them healthy is going to be
important if you decide to raise them
organically.

The other item that rearing turkey requires is a
proper heat source for all the baby turkeys. You
may want to put a red heat lamp in your turkey
facility. This will allow the turkeys to stay
warm under the lamp, but make sure you have
enough of them for all the turkeys to stay warm.
Turkeys naturally will pile on top of each other
in order to stay warm, and if you have too many,
the bottom turkeys can suffocate. Keeping your
loss on your baby turkeys to a minimum is going
to be vital if you want healthy adults.

You also may discover that one day your
organically grown turkeys are wandering around
in a drunken state, this is a natural response
to a lack of certain vitamins and minerals. Some
organic farmers rearing turkey have found that
alfalfa can solve this problem. It usually
happens around four weeks of age if it's going
to happen, so starting then at about three weeks
on a bit of alfalfa can help avoid the problem
altogether. Once again, if you're turkeys do not
come out of this or show continual signs of
drunkenness, you will have to purchase turkey
vitamins and minerals to add to their water.

Rearing turkey organically is a lot of fun and
really isn't that difficult. If have an area
that you can take them out during the day so
that they can free range on their own, you'll
find that they don't have to eat a lot of extra
food. Also, make sure that your turkey pen is
secure from predators or at least herd them
inside for the night. The profit margin on
rearing turkey baby's organically is quite a
bit, so when it comes time to market your
organic turkeys make sure you explain exactly
how you reared them so people will want to pay
the higher cost.


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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 rearing
turkey 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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