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Show SUCCESS IN RAISING TURKEYS First Consideration Is Desirable Location Loca-tion and Suitable Range Few Other Essentials. What do I consider the most important impor-tant essentials to be a successful turkey tur-key raiser? First important consideration consider-ation desirable location and good range; next, sound, healthy fowls of standard breed to begin with, for no one can succeed without sound, healthy heal-thy birds to start with. Third, careful feeding. Fourth, keep free from lice. Last, but not least, dry roomy coop so they can be kept out of sudden showers. These equipments, coupled with sound judgment and proper care Df poults, should make anyone successful success-ful in raising turkeys, says a writer in an exchange. The way I manage mine after years of experience, I gather the eggs daily, keep in a place neither too cool nor too hot; turn eggs ever day. When the hen gets ready to set make a coop in some dry place, placing 15 or 16 eggs in nest; bring hen up late in evening, place on nest, keep fastened up two or three days, turn out so she can get something to eat and drink. Watch to see if she goes on same nest. When eggs hatch leave poults in nest 36 hours. Move hen and poults to large roomy coop inclosed in pen to keep anything from running over them. Dust hen and little ones with some good insect powder to kill lice. Feed them egg bread first few days. Give them plenty of fresh water. When they are a few days old give them lettuce and onion tops chopped fine with bread crumbs. Also give them a little chicken feed consisting of grain, small seeds, grit and oyster shells. Keep fastened in coop until strong enough to keep up with hen; turn out in the morning, but see that they come home at night to roost. Sprinkle a little black pepper occasionally occa-sionally in their food, but be sure not to overfeed, as it brings trouble and disaster in its train. |
