How to care for turkeys than to feed them
How to care for turkeys than to feed them
The output of turkeys should be timed to the end of May. On the street it is just warm weather, the garden is planted, and there is time to tinker with the chicks.
Instructions
1
Although the turkeys are diligent and careful nestlingsmothers, always watch how the turkey is hatched. Sometimes heavy and awkward can trample the baby. After the end of the withdrawal all turkeys can be safely admitted to the turkey.
2
Feed the chicks begin not later than through10 hours after birth. Spread on the floor first of the newspaper, then sacking in two layers. Firstly, the turkeys do not leave their legs, and secondly, they have tender beaks, and if they knock on something hard, then they get sick. Drain the feed and tap on the floor with your fingers to start pecking.
3
Water (a little pink from potassium permanganate) is placed in a flat drink - a saucer with a half-liter can inverted in the center. You can give and strongly brewed (asleep) tea.
4
In the first 24 hours, usually feed thesieve hard boiled egg and fresh low-fat cottage cheese. On the third day of life, add to them finely chopped nettles, green onions or garlic and grated carrots. Feed the green onions and garlic turkeys in the afternoon. If you feed in the evening, it will cause great thirst and the young will not sleep at night.
5
A week after the withdrawal, start givingturkey cooked millet. First with the egg, then without it. From this age, include a menu on the basis of sour milk (or meat broth), mixed with crushed wheat, oatmeal, wheat bran.
6
Well eaten and greens (cabbage leaves,beets, stalks of garlic, nettle, alfalfa, clover, plantain, mochritsa; especially useful grass with a bitter taste: yarrow, dandelion, sow), finely chopped and mixed with yogurt, mixed fodder and 10-12 drops of fish oil per chick. Fish oil is well alternated with vitamins trivit and tetravit (100 ml diluted in 1 liter of vegetable oil and add 1 tsp in feed for 12-15 turkeys).
7
Two weeks, give vitamins, then at the sameTime to take a break and give only food and greens. And to strengthen the bones pour in the mushrooms dried and ground eggshell shells or bone meal. To regulate digestion, be sure to place a bowl with sand.
8
Breeding chicks need to provide a dry andwarm place. Therefore, the first two weeks, do not let the turkeys on the paddock (carry only in the box and under the glass). Up to three months in the literal sense of the word, protect them from the rain. If it happens that the chick gets wet, take it to the house, dip the paws into vodka, push into the throat 1-3 (depending on the age) the peas of black pepper and - on a warm stove. Weakened turkeys give glucose and ascorbic, dissolved in water.
