how to grow turkeys on pasture: brooder tips, shelter, fencing, and feeding
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Today we're putting our 5 week-old turkeys on pasture. As well as showing how we move them, in this video I give tips for raising young turkey poults, explain our turkey shelter design, how we construct moveable fences, and how we keep the turkeys safe from airborne predators like owls.
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I enjoy your farm as a retired farmer I appreciate your hard work and effort
Thank you another very informative video for anyone contemplating starting into Turkey production.
Ehi man, I really like your genuinity and your passion, your job as farmer, I loved it.
I love your farm. I would love to do a scaled down version of it on our little 6 acres. I want to do turkeys, but so far we only have 12 chickens and three cats. We are accumulating old international tractors, too, with one Farmall 230, one Farmall cub, and three B414 diesel tractors.
Excellent video - thanks!
You should do a video on your chicken/turkey butchering day and a walk through of the equipment you use.
yes!
Thank you Sir for the information. Really happy to see you put out this video on raising turkeys. Excellent information, and took down many notes. Maybe a follow up would be a video the economics /financial on them. SImilar to video you did on pigs.(PORKonomics)...TURKEYonomics,...CHICKonomics...CATTLEonomics...Sound like books to me!! I read everyone of them ! Continue the good work.
nicely done sir .
How do you keep them from flying away?
Have you had any problems with everything that's going on with USPS in terms of getting live animals shipped on time?
Early on in the covid thing we had problems. But it's settled down now.
No livestock guardian dog?
Some of your vids will not allow a like or comments. For example, history of Dexters.
Both of you are a blessing to each other. Two people having the same farming dream. That is special!!
how big my farm should be to raise 100 turkeys? and how big should be their coup for 100 turkeys? what are their diseases, their vaccines, and how resistant are they? I can get free spinach and coriander/cilantro and tomatoes for cheap like 35-40dollars per 1000 kilograms can I feed it to them after 2 weeks? will it give them any benefit in higher quality/quantity meat?
Always love to see Hilary and you working together on the farm! Maybe one day we’ll get a “Hilary’s take” video!
I hope I can get her to do it someday. She's pretty camera shy.
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@@JustaFewAcresFarm she is very efficient. She seems always one step ahead of your needs when helping you. An ideal companion
I have started to keep Turkeys at the farm now I have been inspired to upscale their production. This video has really given me some business ideas. Thank you.
This is the best information I’ve found in several months of research on raising turkeys. I want to raise turkeys, but I think this video will help anyone wanting to buy a quality meat. Thank you for being so real and sharing your great wisdom with us.!
I think dogs & children are 10xs easier than raising turkeys! The turkeys are needy & talk a ton!! It’s a shame they’re all males! Human babies are not too seriously easy to death or sickness during the two weeks like turkeys.
100!? Jesus Christ, I can barely handle just 10 Turkeys at once. Though, I usually have 50 chickens at the same time, lol. More power to you, I couldn’t handle that many turkeys.
Will predators not jump the fence? Looking at doing a few myself next year and this has really helped.
Hi Tom, nice to hear from you! The only predators we have which could jump the fence are coyotes, and we've never had a problem. My guess is they approach the fence, get zapped, and that deters them. Raptors are the only predator issue we have ever had with turkeys.
You have GOT to show some night time video!
Come on all you unsubscribed good people, if you only subscribe to one site, let this be the one. No one is more deserving than Hillary and Pete Larson.
I am loving all of your content. Full of information and good advice. Thank you for sharing.
Do you give them medication, enlight me about it
I feel like people think turkey's and pretty much every production bird is way stupider then they really are. I mean don't get me wrong they are a far cry from a border collie or a Australian Shepard but the idea of them dying from rain and starving because they cant figure out how to eat is a little insane.
I admire your work ethic! It’s nice to see how you work together with your family
So do you raise more turkeys then you have orders just in case you do have casualties in the field? Because I’m sure the customer doesn’t want to hear they lost thanksgiving dinner to a horned owl a week before thanksgiving
Pete you sure had me wondering about the Christmas lights and basketball hoop. All I could picture was the turkeys playing hoop at night. Glad those tricks work for you against those owls.
Fingers crossed Larry!
I’m considering raising a few turkeys this year and the information you shared is very helpful. Thank you for sharing.
Love the way you use what you have. That's the way it's done!
I’ve always wanted to raise my own turkeys. Fresh turkey is amazing!
How many acres is your farm? Keep the jokes going . Who cares what others think. They watch you for you and not trying to act not yourself
Another reason I'll advocate for American Thanksgiving to be the same date as Canadian Thanksgiving.. xD
Is the shelter ok when you get one of those hard driving rains and its really blowing? Im in CT and there wouldn't be a dry bird after a driving rain.
We've had turkeys out in that kind of weather and snow as well. They are tough birds when they get bigger and they do fine.
Do they tend to fly out of the electric fencing area ever? Do their wings need trimming in order to contain their flying abilities? Thank you.
You grow plants and you raise turkeys.
Pete, I'm one of your new fans and really look forward to each new video!!! Learned a lot here about your turkey raising! Lord bless and take care till next time! ;o)
Great info. This will be our first year raising turkeys and your tips are very valuable, so thank you!
Hi there!We just got some Rio Poults ourself and I’m researching everyone’s coops before we start ours. Glad I found your channel! Nice To Meet You!
I'm close to you what is the price of a fresh Turkey
Pete, I am going to try the trick for the owl, I Cornish cross chickens to a owl earlier this year , now I'm losing them to Hawks. Any other advice ?!
Do turkeys eat corn?
This is informative. Thank you.
Hey Pete love your channel. Just wondering what you think about Mark Robers video on impossible burger with bill gates
Waw,îmi place la nebunie zootehnia făcută de d-voastră... atât de inedită și originală, râd de multe ori de ideile trăsnite!! Dacă vine prădătorul de 🦅 vultur,ce soluție aveți???
Pete, you explain things very well. I'm not a farmer, but you explain stuff pretty well.
How do you keep your turkeys from flying away? I hatched 3 from eggs in my incubator. At 4 weeks I put them outside in a safe enclosed pen. They had access to the shed for safety through a hatch door. Next morning they were MIA. No sign of predator having gotten them. They literally flew the coop.
Very nice video.. Thanks for all the information you gave ❤. Greetings from the other side of the planet 😊
Another great video. Thank you so much
Thanks! Great video. I have 4 Nrgnset - hoping for eggs/poults. Very curious, sweet but they can make a mess. Your video inspired me to try what your doing but just for family and selves.
Great video! Reminds me of when I used to raise turkeys with my grandfather!! Thanks Pete!
Thanks for addressing the owl issue.
Gb
Pete, FAO is looking for you! Subscribers, send Pete's link to FAO! Useless FAO's administration is going to learn some thing useful! Saludos desde Tamaulipas
@justafewacres How much electric fencing would you suggest getting for 15 turkeys?
Gobble Gobble. Thanks Pete ⚡️⚡️⚡️👍👍😇
I am a new time watcher of your videos. You and your wife have some great ideas. I lo❤e your videos. But your poor wife got her arm scratched 😢when moving the turkeys. Tell her to please put on a long sleeve jacket or ... Be sure to clean and disinfect those scratches and use neorsporn or something similar. I fell and scratched my leg and cleaned it but didn't have neorsporn or antibiotic cream at the time. My knee got infected. It took. Several trips to doctors about a month to get rid of infection. Ugh!
I love your farm ❤
I love your turkey farm
I have a small pecan orchard in North Texas and I have considered free ranging some heritage breed turkeys. I have a bunch of native pecans that have nuts about the size of the tip of your little finger. Will they eat those? If so that may be a better use of those nuts than what I'm doing right now.
Always enjoy your videos, even tho, I am retired. I am seriously considering, ramping up my operation, on my small, 24 acres, farm, just for something to do, at 72 years old. Thank you for your ideas.
This was perfect...I'm raising 10 this year the most i've tried raising
how big my farm should be to raise 100 turkeys? and how big should be their coup for 100 turkeys? what are their diseases, their vaccines, and how resistant are they? I can get free spinach and coriander/parsley and tomatoes for cheap like 35-40dollars per 1000 kilograms can I feed it to them after 2 weeks? will it give them any benefit in higher quality/quantity meat?
Boy, it doesn't take long for them to grow out! Congratulations on 31K subscribers! And will there ever be a "farm cat" video? =^._.^=
Ezra the cat is more inclined to make guest appearances here and there :)
How are you
It would be nice seeing you guys wearing cloths with your brand on it
I would put it on your working tractors too
Love watching your channel, brings good memories
Thank you and please don't give up 😜
Great information there.. I’m doing my first batch of turkeys this year. Mainly just for me and my family but if everything goes well I plan to sell some next year along with our broilers.
I really love how creative you can be with building things for the birds. I think it is awesome how much you care for them.
Great content!
Can Hillary take us through her morning routine with poultry for half of a video?
Awesome video ! I’m going to copy u ! Small scale tho ! Thanks
Try adding flares as counter-measures lol
Thanks so much for your informative video. I was told you need to have a roof over them so they don't fly away, no?
Any tips on finding bedding cheap? Or is tractor supply about as good as it gets?
I dunno where you are but, Rural King has their own brand of wood shaving type bedding. I think price varies but my local store has it really cheap
So you can butcher the turkeys but not the beef? And do you not keep one live one for your Thanksgiving? Because there is nothing like a turkey dinner when the bird is alive three hours before it goes in the oven .
What’s the science behind withholding feed for two hours when they arrive?
I’ve had so much fun raising turkeys.
congratulations
What are the dimension of your brooder boxes? We had an early batch of mestbirds & turkeys this year in a barn stall but hoping to avoid that next year.
The brooder house you have at the beginning interests me. Is it cattle panels bent over a wooden frame or how is it made?
Congratulations on the growth of your channel! I look forward to your videos even though I don't raise livestock or know anything about tractors...go figure!!
Thanks Laura!
They are so cute!!!! I can't wait to have my own.
Excellent info as usual.
At 8 minutes there is a weird looking turkey in the pasture :D
What about wind? Specially in the winter ?
What kind of feeds did you give them they've grown so fast
How much land is required to grow them out?
Your Turkey videos put a smile on my face and make me chuckle. They are just so goofy! I can tell you enjoy them too. This one has me thinking about the one from last fall where you and Hilarie were capturing them. That one is a classic!
Hi Great Northern, we had fun making that video! I couldn't believe it when I looked back, but I've been on YT for a year now and that was one of our first videos.
@@JustaFewAcresFarm Thanks also for the info on Heritage breeds. We plan to buy our turkey this year from a local farmer, and I love the taste of a traditional turkey. I'll make sure to know what it is we are buying.
Do turkeys get angel wing?
What kind of plucker do you have? I'm looking for one now and I'm worried about spending all that money for an unreliable one
Please where can I get the chicks from. I'm in Ghana
THE MEXICAN MIGRANT BIRD!....LOVE THEM!
Hey Pete, Ditto what Great Northern 70 below said! Thanks!
What hatchery do you use?
do you need to send them to a usda place to sell them to people or do turkeys not count ?
Turkey Ark = Turkey Bleacher??
It kinda resembles a bleacher to me.
LOL, it does!
Do you ever reduce the protein below 24 percent? if so, at what age? Awesome channel. Thanks for taking the time to share your farm
After 5 weeks, their feed is reduced to 19% protein.
Great video. How do you keep the turkey from flying out of the enclosure. My hertiage breed wouldnt stay put after a few weeks. We now totally free range them but Id preffer to control thier movement a bit more.
I would like to know the answer to this as well.
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How much land do you use for y’all’s pasture turkeys, hens, and broilers???
How we can find out male or female chicks
Well than can I find where I can inbox you
Always interesting. I like your attitude to the animals.
Its a Turkey Dance Party !!! I Love it !!!
I raised two turkey 🦃 and they were great pets 😊
Thanks for a wonderful video!
Do you have any trouble with hawks or other preditor birds?