micflo28:
Please are they prone to natural preys like cats and snakes and how do you prevent that and what kind of medication and quantity do you give them

Cats, snakes, thieves, children, bully turkey, diseases, cold, heat e.t.c

Your job is to protect them from above. I invite a veterinarian for medicines & disease prevention.

Alcapone001:

Don't you think you are starving them? feeding them twice is quite horrible to me..those guys are gonna be really hungry tho...
Pls feed them properly the way a normal being should eat..

I think the feeding schedule is ideal. They're adequately fed & I even over indulge their food wasting habits of using their claws to scratch into and scatter the feed. I let them do that till week 5 where I replace the flat tray with a waste-curbing feeder.

I put the food twice, they don't eat twice. They eat, drink, jump, spar, sleep, eat again and do as they please.

A hungry poult has the loudest hunger-voice that even your neighbors will hear. You'll always know if they are hungry.

RolexOfGeneva:
Don't forget to give them multivitamins and antibiotics regularly as they are very susceptible to infections at this stage.

farouk2much:
Make sure you vaccinated them.........guy you try wela give them all the necessary protection so that you will benefit a lot from them

Thanks. Yes, prevention is key. Once in a while I let in a veterinarian check on them. Apart from the organics (ginger, garlic, aloe vera, bitter leaf etc) I gave them (the adults), the vet take care of the Meds.

Eriokanmi:
Weldone OP. Your efforts go pay one day. I've never seen baby turkeys before

I've never also seen the type of American turkey before, they look like giants. Their meat is like goat meat, so sweet

Chummynoni:
I always thought turkeys could only be hatched by artificial incubation. Nice one op

ProphetJeroboam:
I am in my twenties and this is my first time seeing baby turkeys.

InoGetJoy:

Same here, it's my first time seeing baby turkeys

richmondefosa:
I'm in my late twenties and this is the first time I'm seeing a baby turkey.

Thank you OP. You don't know how happy and excited I am seeing this.

You're welcome.

Turkeys are cool birds, highly social and can live up to 10 years. They remember people faces, those they like they greet, follow & sit close to, to play and get petted cuddled & stroked - they love that.

They are capable of learning every detail in a place they live even when it's is a large area. They make lots of different sounds each for specific purpose, sometimes you might think it is from another animal that visited your farm.

moneylam:
Do you want to sell them? I want to buy.

Sorry man. I will give out half & keep half.

Funny thing is I can't tell the males & females apart. The males don't gobble till 6 - 7 months, and both sexes can puff their feathers.

I can only guess who is a male now if they are bigger in size or they decided to fan their tails.

Week 5 update

They're growing more feathers & that helps a lot in this harmattan.

Week 4 update

The poults are now separated from their mothers.

The mothers have done a good job raising them till this point.

At one month old they are fairly easy to raise, they have passed the most fragile stage.

Week 3 update

Poults getting bigger.

ManuelDmotivato:
Please where is your farm located?

I am raising them in my backyard.

Ade3131:
@Op, what's the update on the 2nd mother hen?

Was she able to hatch any of the remaining eggs?

She eventually sat on the eggs, everything was smooth for about 24 hours till Hen-1 started rejecting & pecking some of the Chicks, one was badly hurt, causing its dead.

Immediately afterwards, I divided the Chicks between the 2 Hens and dispose the eggs.

Ade3131:
I raised turkeys in 2019 and they really grew up well but the female (just one) turn out not to be a good Mom. She hatches but somehow couldn't nurse the poults and I ended up losing her after she fell sick.

Please remember to update the thread. Nice job you're doing

Turkey hens can be annoyingly unreasonable, a neighbor once had a turkey that breaks every egg she laid. But there are great ones too, some can hatch up to 90% of eggs laid out of the usual 10 - 17.

Sorry your turkey died, the grown ones are less susceptible to common poultry diseases and usually don't die easily. I give mine ginger, garlic, bitter leaf & aloe vera to boost their immunity.

ManuelDmotivato:
Do they make lots of noises, please how can I reach you?

They make noise when they are hungry. When they got separated from their mothers. When they got lost.

Lets converse on this thread, if it is personal/sensitive message you can post an email I can reach you.

Week 2 update

Poults and moms are healthy & doing great.

kripen:
Good analysis,. My experience with turkey egg, I added on egg to local fowl but it couldn't hatch because of the difference in incubation

I love local fowls, 1 hen gives dozens of chicks in a year.

ManuelDmotivato:
Thank you very much for your response,
How do you feed them, what kind of feed do you use?
Why are people not rearing turkeys, is it high risk?

I feed them twice daily, 6am & 2pm. They eat starter feed (pellets or mash)

The risk in raising turkey poults is the mothers are not great parents & the poults are very fragile in the first few weeks.

If you have day old poults separated from the mother, you will need to raise them with all the extra care like you do with young broilers.

If the mother is raising them keep them in a cage/coop for at least a month, what they eat is important, they grow so fast with quality unadulterated feed.

ManuelDmotivato:
Where do you plan to sell your turkey is there a demand for it and how long does it takes to get mature?

Turkey mature at 6 months.

Day olds go for 800 - 1500. Buyers will visit you at home & ask you to sell.

Week 1 update (from first hatch)

Hen-1 turned aggressive to some poults, I guess 12 is too many for her. She pecked one on the head & broke its skull. Hen-2 has some of the chicks now.

Hen-2 coop

The atmosphere is not so jovial here. The idea is to get her sit on the eggs, she stands over them.

She's uncomfortable, it is expected, but she will sit. If more chicks get hatched in the next 3 days, she will have some of her old chicks back.

Hen-1 coop

Calm mum, cheerful babies.

I got 10 unhatched eggs, today is the final day of 28 days incubation period of turkey eggs. I am not throwing them, I had in the past experienced eggs that are abandoned, hatching themselves when the mother left them in the nest. I am hoping to get more poults.

So, Hen-2 that hatches the most eggs is now given Hen-1 unhatched eggs, and Hen-1 takes Hen-2 babies.

I broke one unhatched egg & I am right it is a dud.

The integration for Hen-1 with 12 babies went smoothly. Hen-2 with 9 unhatched eggs is not having it, madam has been throwing tantrums since the past hour.

Log from first egg to last hatch.

First egg: 5th oct 2021
Hen-1 went broody: 23rd oct
Hen-2 went broody: 24th oct

The turkeys lay on same nest, I had to separate them. 2 birds brooding in 1 nest is a disaster waiting to happen, So.

Hen-1 to Nest-1 with 10 eggs: 24th oct
Hen-2 to Nest-2 with 11 eggs: 24th oct

First hatch at Nest-1: 16th nov
6 babies at Nest-1: 17th nov
7 babies at Nest-1: 18th nov

First hatch at Nest-2: 17th nov
4 babies at Nest-2: 18th nov
5 babies at Nest-2: 20th nov

Hello, welcome - greetings.

My two turkeys recently hatched, the growth update of the babies (poults) will be primarily shared on this thread.

As at 20th November 2021 there has been 24 eggs laid, 12 hatched, 10 unhatched & 2 got eaten (i suspected the male turkey).

The hungry/yawning one at the last pic hatches today.

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