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

You didn't do it right, next time don't add the egg, you exchange them. The very day your realize your hen has started incubating her eggs, remove all the chicken eggs and give her the turkey eggs. I do it very well, even with guinea fowl eggs. My hens hatch them for me because guinea fowls and turkeys are bad at parenting so the chicks have better a chance of surviving if the eggs are given to a hen.

Is this for next year xmas

18wheeler:

I tried Turkey last year. It was encouraging to be honest. Bought 7 of them day old @ 700 naira each. Reared from august to December and sold each for 22000 naira. However, I lost one at young age, lost one in a fight with the bully of the pack and slaughtered the bully for my family. Got 88k for the remaining 4 and you needed to see how people rushed them. They were not fully matured even. I planned to sell by February this year but succumbed to buyers' pressure and the attractive prices.

August to December sold for 22k at four month? Bros lie small nsh

18wheeler:

I tried Turkey last year. It was encouraging to be honest. Bought 7 of them day old @ 700 naira each. Reared from august to December and sold each for 22000 naira. However, I lost one at young age, lost one in a fight with the bully of the pack and slaughtered the bully for my family. Got 88k for the remaining 4 and you needed to see how people rushed them. They were not fully matured even. I planned to sell by February this year but succumbed to buyers' pressure and the attractive prices

Foreign or local?

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?

very high risk and not as profitable anymore

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

Separate them because it will kill them, talking from experience

Hello, this remaining 10 unhatched eggs will still hatch just take them to where they hatch eggs. Congratulations

Musty4ahmed1:
Foreign or local?

Foreign but bought from a farm in Ibadan

Musty4ahmed1:
August to December sold for 22k at four month? Bros lie small nsh

They were more than 4mths. Delivered to me 7th august and I sold them between 21st and 23rd december. Target was to sell by 6mths initially. Lies? Haba! I keep broilers for up to 11weeks and I still sell same @ 6weeks (half the time) all for consumption. A 5 weeks difference not to talk of Turkey that stayed for over 5mths and I was to sell @ 6mths. Like i said i would have preferred to wait until 6mths and would have sold for nothing less than 27k but the pressure from buyers and price we agreed made me sell them then. Maybe you dont know 2020 was the year we saw sharp price increase in poultry products (meat & eggs) especially at the 3rd to last quarter and it was also the period many small farms either went down or scaled down due to unsustainable operating costs. I'm a victim of the latter. There was some sudden scarcity of birds for meat @ xmas time and we took advantage and cashed out on the available. Average broiler that was sold for 2500-3000 naira in 2019 became 4500-5000 naira. Those turkeys in 2019 I would have sold for 13-15k max but 2020...

Waooo, I love this thread and I would love to join the train.
My turkey lay 14 eggs, first week on her brooding the eggs, I removed 4 eggs that are not fertile and I left 10 fertile eggs for her.
She hatched 9, one couldn't hatched because she doesn't have the upper beak to open the egg shell, I saw that when I examined what could lead to her death.
They are one week old on Wednesday.
They were hatched on Wednesday 15th December 2021, so I bought one carton of noiler chicks, I separated them from the mother on the third day when the noiler arrived. Chai, both mother and chicks noise filled the whole compind throughout the whole day.
But they are all good now, the mother should start laying by February. I plan to leave all the 9 poult and sell the boilers at 4-5 weeks old.
I want to keep the turkey for breeding.
If one can manage to raise them, and you have like 10 females that are laying and hatching, you are ok, 6 weeks turkey will be sold between #2500-#3000, do the calculation and see how much million you will make on 20 female turkey in a year. They will lay at least thrice a year

Poult at day 3 and Noiler at day 1

Day 2 with their mother before the arrival of noiler

I took this picture few minutes ago. Noilers are exactly one week old, Turkey poults are one week and 3 days old

A7:
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.

Lol OP, I grew up around turkeys and dogs, so I know a few things.
The male chicks are usually a bit bigger and they have more feathers on their tails. And yes, they don't gobble until about 5-6 months old

My mum will love this thread. Her love for poultry farming (chicken & turkey) no be here.

A7:
Week 5 update

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

Love the back to back updates.

They look really cute! Great job! I pray you continue to get the time and resources to care for them.

Alcapone001:

I was only asking a question..

same with me

moneylam:
I actually have like 8 eggs in my wardrobe at home right now, I want to practice local incubation with heat. Pls who has any idea how I can do it well.

I do...I built a lantern powered incubator for my guineafowl

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

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

Redomi:
Poult at day 3 and Noiler at day 1

I love this construction. When they poop, it goes through the net. Nice one

FreelanceRebel:


I love this construction. When they poop, it goes through the net. Nice one

Yes sir, I just made the brooding box so that the little chicks will be free from diseases, I am raising them organically, no drug and no vaccines

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.

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.

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.

18wheeler:

They were more than 4mths. Delivered to me 7th august and I sold them between 21st and 23rd december. Target was to sell by 6mths initially. Lies? Haba! I keep broilers for up to 11weeks and I still sell same @ 6weeks (half the time) all for consumption. A 5 weeks difference not to talk of Turkey that stayed for over 5mths and I was to sell @ 6mths. Like i said i would have preferred to wait until 6mths and would have sold for nothing less than 27k but the pressure from buyers and price we agreed made me sell them then. Maybe you dont know 2020 was the year we saw sharp price increase in poultry products (meat & eggs) especially at the 3rd to last quarter and it was also the period many small farms either went down or scaled down due to unsustainable operating costs. I'm a victim of the latter. There was some sudden scarcity of birds for meat @ xmas time and we took advantage and cashed out on the available. Average broiler that was sold for 2500-3000 naira in 2019 became 4500-5000 naira. Those turkeys in 2019 I would have sold for 13-15k max but 2020...

May God bless your hustle. I have learnt a lot from you, my wife introduced me to the local Turkey rearing this year, they are doing well now, I will like to try out the foreign breed. Thank you for the clarity.

Redomi:
I took this picture few minutes ago. Noilers are exactly one week old, Turkey poults are one week and 3 days old

The Turkey are foreign breed too?

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.

A7:


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.

Thanks for the lecture man..I never knew how they were fed tho.. it's all cool..

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.

ndigbo:
Boss, please, can you confirm your turkey breed ( Local or agric) ?

Local breed.

Redomi:
Waooo, I love this thread and I would love to join the train.
My turkey lay 14 eggs, first week on her brooding the eggs, I removed 4 eggs that are not fertile and I left 10 fertile eggs for her.
She hatched 9, one couldn't hatched because she doesn't have the upper beak to open the egg shell, I saw that when I examined what could lead to her death.
They are one week old on Wednesday.
They were hatched on Wednesday 15th December 2021, so I bought one carton of noiler chicks, I separated them from the mother on the third day when the noiler arrived. Chai, both mother and chicks noise filled the whole compind throughout the whole day.
But they are all good now, the mother should start laying by February. I plan to leave all the 9 poult and sell the boilers at 4-5 weeks old.
I want to keep the turkey for breeding.
If one can manage to raise them, and you have like 10 females that are laying and hatching, you are ok, 6 weeks turkey will be sold between #2500-#3000, do the calculation and see how much million you will make on 20 female turkey in a year. They will lay at least thrice a year

Welcome aboard!

I had a turkey that hatches 9 out of 12. All 9 survives to maturity.

Pic 1: Day 1
Pic 2: 3 months 3 weeks
Pic 3: 8 months plus with their babies.

I kept three, 1 tom & two hens. Their chicks have all shades of colors, some like grandma from Pic 1.