Industry Prospects

Turkeys are highly adaptable, manpower feeding, grain crop straw crushed and powdered and tossed, all can be used as turkey feed, sheltered and free-range can be.

Turkey sales market in China's rapid development potential, the key market demand from the coastal cities of Guangdong Province to East China, North China and other first and second-tier cities quickly penetrate the total sales volume to improve, can be expected, along with people's lives and consumption continues to improve , turkey feeding will turn into a feeding market with great prospects in the field of turkey will gradually become a daily necessity for all of us, into a new favorite on the dinner table of the Chinese people.

Benefit assessment

Normal condition, 140 days super heavy turkey males up to 16-20Kg, the weight of the old hen up to 9-,15Kg; small and medium-sized turkey males up to 13-15Kg, the weight of the old hen up to 8-10Kg. two seasons of rearing per year.

◆Capital investment

Turkey seedling now costs 10 yuan/pc, feed costs 25 yuan/pc, epidemic prevention and other miscellaneous expenses 0.5 yuan/pc, and cumulative cost 35.5 yuan/pc.

◆Strict output

Products of the chicken to 10KG/only calculation, the lowest price of the sales market 10 yuan/KG, survival rate of 90% calculation, the total output rate of 90 yuan/only.

◆Profit

Each turkey can get net profit of 54.5 yuan, each person in the countryside every quarter to raise 100 without affecting other work, a year to raise two seasons can get net profit of more than 10,000 yuan.

Breed selection

Turkey varieties and variations of many, at this stage of China's sales market common varieties of key three:

Brass turkey: originating in the Americas, because the plume has a brass luster and is famous for the annual output of 60 eggs up and down the body weight of the female turkey 8KG, male turkey 16KG. the introduction of the long time in our country, the turkey is the most important thing. The breed has been introduced in China for too long and is now in serious decline.

Nicola turkey: bred by the United States Nichola Turkey Breeding Company, the adult males weigh 25KG, female turkeys 12KG or so, annual output of 60-80 eggs, plume white. This kind of turkey male and female body weight difference, of course, breeding fertility rate is poor, to implement artificial insemination, suitable for large-scale processing plant breeding....

Bettina turkey: originated in Mexico, after the French Bettina turkey breeding company to cultivate and domesticate, has become the world can be both free-range and can be the only varieties of house rearing. This kind of turkey is resistant to roughage, fast weight gain, high feed cost, strong disease resistance, annual output of 90'-120 eggs, male turkeys weighing 10KG or so, female turkeys weighing 5KG or so. This kind of turkey of course mating fertility rate is high, and self-hatching work ability is strong, suitable for countryside big family and farmers stocking, is an idealized breed.

Feeding management

1. Green fodder supporting facilities: planting green fodder is the key to all turkey feeding work. Turkeys love to eat green fodder is very common, weeds, vegetables and fruits, leaves, peanuts, sweet potato vines and bean stalks can be. Planted sudangrass, chicory, polymer grass, Rumex and other green fodder are fed to turkeys good feed, but also green fodder and crop residues can be dried and crushed with cake meal, chaff and wheat effectively match, so that the self-seasoning is both quality and quantity can also be cost-effective, can control the cost of enhancing the quality of chicken breast meat.

2. Avoid moldy feed: because of summer precipitation, environmental humidity, concentrate feed is easy to produce mold, resulting in turkey aflatoxin poisoning, need to use sunny days to dry the feed, to avoid food poisoning, moldy feed is prohibited.

3. Do a good job of cleanliness and hygiene: immediately eliminate a variety of pollutants in the infield, disinfection and sterilization on time, select the safety of human and poultry, no corrosion of the facilities, no toxic residues of disinfectant. Drinking water should be applied to systematically tested river water or drinking water.

Tips for connoisseurs

1. Be sure to buy breeder eggs or chicks from a technically professional turkey breeding farm, which is relatively perfect in terms of breed purity, epidemic prevention methods, breeding techniques and after-sales service.

2. Beginners should first raise light turkeys, such as the French Bettina turkeys, the breed can of course breeding, laying eggs to hold the hatching seasons do not distinguish.

3. turkey use period is only 3 years, breeding to buy chickens and young chickens, do not have to buy is about to be eliminated old chicken.

Case of getting rich

New project person Gu Shitao, Jiangsu Province, people in Xiangshui County, after more than 10 years of practical activities, scientific breeding of wild chickens to become rich and wealthy. She founded the Xiangshui County Xinyuan special breeder poultry farm has 2000 pairs of breeding birds, annual cultivation of 15,000 chickens, seedling chickens 35,000. Gu Shitao according to completely free to give seedling chicken way development trend across Yancheng, Lianyungang, Huai'an three cities and eight counties of more than 200 farmers together to carry out breeding birds, and for them to give completely free technical service consulting, because of her breeding birds according to the natural way of rearing, taste and natural similar,