| Show give greens to boults advise turkey experts an experiment conducted by the college of agriculture in california has developed the fact that turkeys need about twice as much vitamin A as do leghorn chicks this vitamin is the one which influences growth and is most abundant in green feed and in the alfalfa meal commonly used in chick mashes in addition to the turkey mash plenty of greens should be fed to boults in order to keep them growing properly the greens will in addition to supplying vitamin A tend to keep the bowels in order and supply the greater bulk that turkeys require in their feed as compared with chickens when boults are confined to wire floors and sup porches however it is necessary to cut the greens very fine especially when the boults are small so as to keep them from swallowing bi big 7 pieces of greens such as stems and choking after the boults are a month old or more they can be trusted with larger clippings of greens |
