Turkeys are raised in cages, cages, nets and flocks, and can be raised by grazing, and their rearing sites should be selected from high terrain, sunny, flat, ventilated, surrounded by a dry environment in the best place, or other poultry houses upwind of the building of turkey houses. Here is a look at the turkey breeding methods.

Turkey Farming Methods

(a) Brood rearing (0-8 weeks of age)

1) Temperature: The temperature of the brooder room is maintained at 34 degrees for the first week, and then it will be lowered by one degree per week, down to 18-21 degrees. If it is high, the chicks will drink a lot of water, pull thin feces, open their mouths and gasp, and if it is low, the chicks will be crowded against the heat source to start palletizing, and screams will often occur. To spread evenly for the appropriate temperature.

2) humidity: generally appropriate relative humidity of 55% -65%, if low, the remaining yolk in the body of the chick is poorly absorbed, drinking too much water is prone to dysentery, the hair grows slowly, lusterless, shriveled toes. If high, the chick hair dirty, messy, poor appetite, wet bedding, prone to disease.

3) Ventilation: generally in order to keep warm and neglect ventilation, or around the plastic sheeting so that the air is not enough oxygen, and carbon oxidation is high, the lack of fresh air for a long time, resulting in chicks debilitated and sickly, the heavy carbon dioxide poisoning, poor ventilation in the house, the chicks show spirit of uneasiness, action is not lively, feathers dirty and messy, lack of appetite, stunted, decreased resistance to disease, prone to respiratory diseases.

4) light: sunlight has a great role in the health of the chick, it can enhance the chick's appetite, promote metabolism, maintain the normal development of bones, improve vitality. The first three days out of the shell weak vision, in order to ensure feeding and drinking water, generally 24 hours of light day and night, can also be used 23 hours of continuous light, an hour of darkness. 23-24 hours a day, every 15 square meters of chicken coop in the first week of age with 40 watt bulbs, the second week of age to change to 25 watt bulbs.　Light should follow the following principles: is to use low light to avoid strong light, in order to prevent the occurrence of malignant fetish, the second is the light can only be reduced can not be increased, premature sexual maturity of the hens, early egg laying, the third is to make up for the light can not be long and short, resulting in stimulation of the disorders, the loss of the role of light.　5) Density: rearing density is related to the normal growth and development of chicks, if the density is small, the effect is good but not economic. If the density of large crowding of chickens feeding is not enough, so the chick growth is slow, the group development is not neat enough, easily infected with disease, and the occurrence of pecking fetish, high mortality rate, the ground level 1-6 weeks, per square meter of 20 or so. Turkeys like to eat onions, leeks, garlic and other green feed, should be chopped and mixed in the mixed feed, not only to promote appetite, to meet the turkey herbivory habits, but also to supplement the vitamins, trace elements and other nutrients, a week after the normal feeding of some yellow sand. In addition to regular water supply every day to meet the turkey drinking water.

(II) breeding feeding (9-28) weeks of age

According to the requirements of turkey growth and development and the characteristics of high-yield, the breeding period can be divided into turkeys to promote the growth stage (9-18) weeks of age and limit the growth of the stage (19-28) weeks of age, these two weeks of age, the survival rate is higher, the management can be rough, generally should be transferred to the ground, the plastic pads flat raising.

1) Feeding: turkeys in the breeding period, lively and active, faster growth, should significantly reduce the stocking density, 3-4 per square meter, there is a sports field coop, can be appropriately increased stocking density. Feed 3-4 times a day, according to the amount of feed 1-2% plus sand and gravel, in order to help the stomach to digest food, and at the same time every day to the outside of the house activities once a day, time 1-2 hours. Grazing allows turkeys to freely feed on grass, insects to enhance the activity, saving feed, limiting the growth phase, to artificially drive sensation 4-5 times a day, increase the amount of exercise.

2) Feed: promote the growth phase, to appropriately increase the proportion of nutrition. To prevent competition for food, can increase the trough. Limit the growth stage, to appropriately reduce the proportion of nutrition.

3) Light: promote growth stage, including natural light during the day, 14-16 hours of light per day, morning and evening supplemental illumination of 15-20 lux. Into the restricted growth stage, light to have some control, roosters should be light 12 hours a day, turkeys are more sensitive to light stimulation, can only be light 6-8 hours a day, therefore, male and female chickens are better to be kept separately.

4) primary selection: in 16-28 weeks of age to the first selection of turkey breeding, the growth and development of those who are good, healthy and lively, with the characteristics of the breed of turkey selected as a male breeder turkey continue to raise the rest of the turkeys as commercial turkeys for meat rearing, the best castration of male turkeys to fatten up and then listed.

(C) egg-laying period rearing (28-57) weeks of age

Reserve breeder turkey rearing to 28 weeks of age, the reproductive organs have matured, from 28-30 weeks of age to start laying eggs, to the end of the 54-57 weeks of age laying eggs, the period of time for the egg-laying period.

1) Preparation: turkeys should be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected before entering the egg-laying period, and install water tanks, troughs, sand trays, perches, laying boxes, anti-hugging nests and make-up light facilities.

2) laying box production: generally 35-40 cm wide, 50-55 cm high, 50-55 cm deep, in the spirit of light, ventilation, egg collection, anti-hugging nest. Every 4-5 turkeys for an egg-laying box.