Breeding Turkey At Home - What You Need To Realize About The Procedures

It's not difficult, but you will have to have
mature turkeys, a goodturkey house plans, proper
nesting procedures, and understand pecking
orders. You have become experienced at
breeding turkeys at home, you know you have to
keep them warm, make sure they don't get
diarrhea and have all the proper food, now,
you'd like to learn how to breed turkeys at
home. 

It's best if you house your turkeys over three
to four months, perhaps the winter, altogether
so they can discover their own pecking order.
Your ratio of males to females, doesn't have to
be exact as one male turkey can service several
hens. Once you start to see your male turkeys
fluffing their feathers, preening, and gobbling
as well as strutting their stuff, the females
will become ready to mate. This is where you
will start to see males fighting males; they
have to win the right to mate. This is where
your breeding turkey journey begins.

You will find that your most dominant turkeys
will have the right to breed, while the others
are relegated to grabbing a hen when the others
aren't looking. If you have enough males, all
females will breed as a rule, so you can expect
eggs out of each female to be fertile.

Once the females have been mating for a while,
they will begin to lay eggs in their nests. You
need a nest large enough for the turkey hen to
be comfortable, and yet protective. They will
lay eggs either every day, or possibly every
other day over a period of a week or so. She
will then incubate her own eggs by sitting on
the nest. Or you can take the eggs away and
incubate them in an incubator that is
specifically for turkey eggs. It takes about
four weeks for turkeys to hatch, and then you
can either put them back in with their mother if
she will accept them, or raise them as you
usually do.

Mother turkey hens are especially suited to
raising babies if they are given enough space,
food and shelter. The males do not play a part
in taking care of the baby turkeys, so if you
want, you can then remove the males from the
turkey house. If you've been raising turkey
babies for a while, you will definitely enjoy
the prospect of breeding turkey yourself. You'll
find that they take care of most of the mating
themselves, and you just get to enjoy watching
the babies hatch and grow up. There is a variety
of different types of facilities you can get for
housing turkeys, or you can build it yourself.
Just make sure there aren't any corners for baby
turkeys to pile up in, keep it climate
controlled, give her a nesting box she likes,
and make sure the males and females have become
a flock of turkeys before the breeding season.

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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 breeding
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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