Olaleyeabdullah:
they are quite big for a 5 weeks old

6weeks 5days, thanks for pointing that out.

jidestroud:


Well, except for the commercial feeds, every other thing used is 100% organic.

List of what makes up my recipe includes;

1. Garlic

2. Ginger

3. Tumeric

4. Apple Cider Vinegar (My most essential)

5. Pawpaw leaves

6. Basil leaves (scent leaves)

7. Christmas Melon (used occasionally)

8. Aloe vera

10. Neem oil (walahi, it works wonders)

11. Red oil.

Walexz02:


Nice one
Come update us about the recipe you use

[quote author=jidestroud post=83894602]

Well, except for the commercial feeds, every other thing used is 100% organic.

List of what makes up my recipe includes;

1. Garlic

2. Ginger

3. Tumeric

4. Apple Cider Vinegar (My most essential)

5. Pawpaw leaves

6. Basil leaves (scent leaves)

7. Christmas Melon (used occasionally)

8. Aloe vera

10. Neem oil (walahi, it works wonders)

11. Red oil.


[/quote
in what case do you use them?

jidestroud:

Well, except for the commercial feeds, every other thing used is 100% organic.
List of what makes up my recipe includes;
1. Garlic
2. Ginger
3. Tumeric
4. Apple Cider Vinegar (My most essential)
5. Pawpaw leaves
6. Basil leaves (scent leaves)
7. Christmas Melon (used occasionally)
8. Aloe vera
10. Neem oil (walahi, it works wonders)
11. Red oil.

in what conditions do you use them?

@ Mr jide can you pls reach me @ isholahakeem5@gmail.com for project consultant. I have a plot of land @ ikoga which I plan to use it poultry

hakeemhakeem:
@ Mr jide can you pls reach me @ isholahakeem5@gmail.com for project consultant. I have a plot of land @ ikoga which I plan to use it poultry

I just did.

It's been a challenging one ever since I kickstarted this project. Nevertheless, it has been very rewarding.

I have been able to expand the market in pushing out a minimum of 150 kuroilers at age 4 weeks every 2 months. The demands keeps growing.

Recently, I also started up with a few Foreign turkeys (Nicholas breed). I would be opening up a thread for it.

I've been following your thread back to back and I love every bit of it. What about your turkeys? Could you post some pictures of their current age and size? I have some local turkeys myself and will appreciate more information about their management. One of my turkey hens has laid 12eggs and still counting, I'm worried that the more eggs she lays, the longer the time they're left without incubation and the lesser the hatchability. Has anyone here had such an experience?

Thanks for the positive feedback.

Let me start by stating this is my first time raising foreign turkeys. For locals turkeys, got a few years experience on my hands and I can say, it's quite simple. Well, I do mill their very own feeds for them and not tempted to raise them with other poultry birds again. Like you know, there's the myth out there that says turkeys needs to be raise with chicks due to their sluggishness, which in return helps them eat better. Big fallacy!!!!
I raise mine alone and they in fact do better. Like I said, I give them their own feed milled to account for their growth stages.

Will be sharing pictures of the foreign poults later.

jidestroud:
It's been a challenging one ever since I kickstarted this project. Nevertheless, it has been very rewarding.

I have been able to expand the market in pushing out a minimum of 150 kuroilers at age 4 weeks every 2 months. The demands keeps growing.

Recently, I also started up with a few Foreign turkeys (Nicholas breed). I would be opening up a thread for it.

They can brood too. Very good breed. @nikolas

Blackbelly:
I've been following your thread back to back and I love every bit of it. What about your turkeys? Could you post some pictures of their current age and size? I have some local turkeys myself and will appreciate more information about their management. One of my turkey hens has laid 12eggs and still counting, I'm worried that the more eggs she lays, the longer the time they're left without incubation and the lesser the hatch ability. Has anyone here had such an experience?

There is no problem ones the eggs are well fertilised it will hatch it . They sometimes lay up to 15eggs before they will start brooding.

Turkey hens are one of a kind. So far so good, I have only bn blessed with a good turkey hen, the rest are just carefree and careless mothers. Yes, you are correct to say fertility decreases over time, cos I have had to use an incubator in hatching and the recommended duration advised is usually a week old eggs.
I have also employed the use of local chicken hens to hatch their eggs but I find that too stressful for the hens (28 days plus ain't moi-moi)

Nevertheless, your turkey hen hatching naturally wouldn't pose a problem, by instinct it should know when the time is right. (I once had a turkey hen that layed 28 eggs )

spyglaxx:


They can brood too. Very good breed. @nikolas

Sure, read a few things about them. Brood? Well, I am just experimenting with them for now.

Boss for life.... Keep it up bro one love..... FGM always @ your service

jidestroud:
Turkey hens are one of a kind. So far so good, I have only bn blessed with a good turkey hen, the rest are just carefree and careless mothers. Yes, you are correct to say fertility decreases over time, cos I have had to use an incubator in hatching and the recommended duration advised is usually a week old eggs.
I have also employed the use of local chicken hens to hatch their eggs but I find that too stressful for the hens (28 days plus ain't moi-moi)

Nevertheless, your turkey hen hatching naturally wouldn't pose a problem, by instinct it should know when the time is right. (I once had a turkey hen that layed 28 eggs )

Wow! 28 eggs That's really a rare occurrence. Did it hatch the eggs? Mine has laid 14 now, and I'm already concerned about the depletion of calcium in the bird as the bird seem weaker and not as active as before.

Blackbelly:


Wow! 28 eggs That's really a rare occurrence. Did it hatch the eggs? Mine has laid 14 now, and I'm already concerned about the depletion of calcium in the bird as the bird seem weaker and not as active as before.

Worry not
Just make sure the brooding space is ok.
May lay more before it will start brooding

What is the difference between broiler, noiler and kuroiler

Walexz02:

Worry not
Just make sure the brooding space is ok.
May lay more before it will start brooding

I can finally heave a sigh of relief, the turkey hen has started brooding after laying the 18th egg today I can't say if it'll lay more though.
Believe me it was frightening to think that it won't show maternal instincts. The only problem now are the 'oversabi' turkeys that are squeezing themselves into the clutch to brood the eggs alongside the egg layer. I'll have to isolate the mother hen and her clutch of eggs to prevent damage.

Blackbelly:


I can finally heave a sigh of relief, the turkey hen has started brooding after laying the 18th egg today I can't say if it'll lay more though.
Believe me it was frightening to think that it won't show maternal instincts. The only problem now are the 'oversabi' turkeys that are squeezing themselves into the clutch to brood the eggs alongside the egg layer. I'll have to isolate the mother hen and her clutch of eggs to prevent egg damage.

Good one. Unfortunately, I lost mine to snake attack on the farm. Found it dead on Friday morning with bite marks on it. Gave part of the eggs out and left with 10.

jidestroud:


Good one. Unfortunately, I lost mine to snake attack on the farm. Found it dead on Friday morning with bite marks on it. Gave part of the eggs out and left with 10.

that's really sad, sorry for the loss.

Blackbelly:


I can finally heave a sigh of relief, the turkey hen has started brooding after laying the 18th egg today I can't say if it'll lay more though.
Believe me it was frightening to think that it won't show maternal instincts. The only problem now are the 'oversabi' turkeys that are squeezing themselves into the clutch to brood the eggs alongside the egg layer. I'll have to isolate the mother hen and her clutch of eggs to prevent egg damage.

Very necessary
It may lay one more egg. It will come out to eat every 3 days
Feed her well pls

Walexz02:

Very necessary
It may lay one more egg. It will come out to eat every 3 days
Feed her well pls

Thanks for your counsel and encouragement.

Blackbelly:


I can finally heave a sigh of relief, the turkey hen has started brooding after laying the 18th egg today I can't say if it'll lay more though.
Believe me it was frightening to think that it won't show maternal instincts. The only problem now are the 'oversabi' turkeys that are squeezing themselves into the clutch to brood the eggs alongside the egg layer. I'll have to isolate the mother hen and her clutch of eggs to prevent egg damage.

I salute you people that rear turkeys. Those things most especially the female ones are highly destructive (they eat plants) and are terrible noise makers, making noise up and down like they are looking for something they lost . They will climb fence or be wandering up and down making some irritating noise like they are looking for a lost treasure.

LordAzubuike:

I salute you people that rear turkeys. Those things most especially the female ones are highly destructive (they eat plants) and are terrible noise makers, making noise up and down like they are looking for something they lost . They will climb fence or be wandering up and down making some irritating noise like they are looking for a lost treasure.

LordAzubuike:

I salute you people that rear turkeys. Those things most especially the female ones are highly destructive (they eat plants) and are terrible noise makers, making noise up and down like they are looking for something they lost . They will climb fence or be wandering up and down making some irritating noise like they are looking for a lost treasure.

LordAzubuike:

I salute you people that rear turkeys. Those things most especially the female ones are highly destructive (they eat plants) and are terrible noise makers, making noise up and down like they are looking for something they lost . They will climb fence or be wandering up and down making some irritating noise like they are looking for a lost treasure.

Lol. Wait till you try raising guineafowls.

LordAzubuike:

I salute you people that rear turkeys. Those things most especially the female ones are highly destructive (they eat plants) and are terrible noise makers, making noise up and down like they are looking for something they lost . They will climb fence or be wandering up and down making some irritating noise like they are looking for a lost treasure.

Can't stop laughing at your comment
It can be annoying especially when the become very familiar.
My turkeys will come to my window in the morning and force me out when I refused to serve then food early .
Can be annoying sometimes .

jidestroud:


Good one. Unfortunately, I lost mine to snake attack on the farm. Found it dead on Friday morning with bite marks on it. Gave part of the eggs out and left with 10.

So sorry
But how do we prevent snakes from coming to the farm bearing in mind that we are breeding what they like to eat especially chicken eggs

What can really work well against snake farm visitation.

Please can you give me the phone contact of where you bought the day old kuroilers
Thanks

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BoluwGoldenFarm:


So sorry
But how do we prevent snakes from coming to the farm bearing in mind that we are breeding what they like to eat especially chicken eggs

What can really work well against snake farm visitation.

Please can you give me the phone contact of where you bought the day old kuroilers
Thanks

Thanks Boss. Quite a loss, never saw it coming though I do get incidents of snakes sightings on the farm from time to time.

One of the counter measures I have employed over time is the introduction of cats on the farm. Can't say much about the cats killing snakes but they sure reduce rodents population and in turn reduce the pull factor for the reptiles. My turkeys are on free range and the possibility of using chemicals are out of it.

On the Kuroilers, I was getting it from Afrimash not until it was removed from their site.
Moreover, I have been hatching some of my kuroiler eggs using the OBJ Farm in Ota.

Note: I don't sell chicks hatched by myself biko. I grow those to table size.

LordAzubuike:

I salute you people that rear turkeys. Those things most especially the female ones are highly destructive (they eat plants) and are terrible noise makers, making noise up and down like they are looking for something they lost . They will climb fence or be wandering up and down making some irritating noise like they are looking for a lost treasure.

Hahahahaha...your description of their behavior is apt. Those who hate noise can't cope with them

I am enjoying this thread. I grew up in a home where we raised Turkeys and Chickens, and also Rabbits. So, I am familiar with some of the things said and discussed on this thread. Turkeys can truly be annoying and they fight a lot, especially the males. Our Rotweiiler dog used to be the mediator in the fights . Turkeys on free range eat all kinds of things apart from their normal feed. And they grow very big in about 12 months. We also had a Poultry in my father's house. I remember those days ( From around 1998 to 2013 ) and I smile when I read similar stories on Nairaland. Rabbit Meat production will surely be a big hit in Nigeria. Cheers.

Redman44:
I am enjoying this thread. I grew up in a home where we raised Turkeys and Chickens, and also Rabbits. So, I am familiar with some of the things said and discussed on this thread. Turkeys can truly be annoying and they fight a lot, especially the males. Our Rotweiiler dog used to be the mediator in the fights . Turkeys on free range eat all kinds of things apart from their normal feed. And they grow very big in about 12 months. We also had a Poultry in my father's house. I remember those days ( From around 1998 to 2013 ) and I smile when I read similar stories on Nairaland. Rabbit Meat production will surely be a big hit in Nigeria. Cheers.

Lol I very much agree with that last phrase

BoluwGoldenFarm:


So sorry
But how do we prevent snakes from coming to the farm bearing in mind that we are breeding what they like to eat especially chicken eggs

What can really work well against snake farm visitation.

Please can you give me the phone contact of where you bought the day old kuroilers
Thanks

Introduce leamon grass to ur surroundings. Snakes will never go near that place, unless dat snake na one old woman for one of dez villages..