Beginners Guide To Raising Turkeys On Pasture - Pastured Turkey Tractor
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- Beginners Guide To Raising Turkeys On Pasture - Pastured Turkey Tractor
We are raising a batch of turkeys so we will have turkey available at our farmers markets this year and its time to move them out of the brooder.
But its still winter and the temperatures aren't very warm so we are implementing an intermediate step for these birds and using a Suscovich style chicken tractor with brooder lamps as a transition.
These birds will be in the tractor for a few weeks and then they will go into some poultry netting where they can rage and forage.
Raising turkeys on pasture is a very rewarding project for your homestead or farm.
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“And uh, look at us now makin all kinds of mistakes” 😂
Very subtle but a great reminder that there’s always a lesson to be learned!
Just a thought Chuck. Build another of those brooders along the wall. Leave it empty. WHen you need to get the poults out due to soiled bedding just set em up in your spare while you clean and reset the other one for your third. During the spring summer fall you can add it to capacity and have it for the winter mode.
Hope all is well. If it weren't for farmers and truckers we'd all starve.
Good idea. We’ve build another, much bigger brooder, that will help us do exactly what you are talking about. It’s 8x8 and will hold 250 chicks. We are going to keep these 2 smaller ones for overflow and holding if we need to clean out or work on something.
Great suggestion!
Blind squirrel strikes again:-). Nice to see the growth your doing with your new place.
love how honest and humble you are Chuck. Mistakes are all part of the game, as long as you're learning from them!
Raising turkeys for the first time is a learning lesson, the tim is very protective of his flock, my wife has to carry a rake to protect herself from rhe tom hahaha good video mate
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thank you for supporting Goodwill. my son loved working at the Goodwill in our area. I look at my purchases from Goodwill as a way to recycle and keep usable items out of the landfill and providing work for people that may not find work elsewhere. thank you for sharing your experiences, the good and the bad.
You are most welcome. Love the coat. It was like $10 and I wear it all the time when it’s really cold out. Goodwill is a great organization.
I purchased your brooder plans last summer and I am so happy that I did! I absolutly love my brooder box! I'm planning on building 3 more this spring. I'm going to use two of them for Quail growout pens; one for maes and one for females.
Awesome! Glad you liked them and they are working good for you.
I love your message, Chuck, that if you haven’t done it you just have to try!
Turkeys can be so tricky! I think your set up will work well for them at this age! We sell turkey all year and people LOVE the ground turkey!
Good looking set up
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Excellent work 👍👍👍 . Thanks for sharing
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I got my copy of the brooder set up and I must say it’s worth the small price your asking for them
Thanks! Glad they worked out for y’all.
I sent you some hangers that I think are slick as snot on a door knob 🤪lol. I use to hang my light's , feed and water, so I can raise and lower them while my birds are growing. Says estimated delivery Monday . Great job Ryan 🤪 Todd
Thanks Todd. I really appreciate that! We’ll be on the lookout for them.
Excited to give them a try.
@@SheratonParkFarms I told ya to get some a couple of years ago , 🤪 have fun and hopefully you won't loose any more turkeys , in a couple more weeks ya can't kill them. They are like light switches either on or off. They go from fragile to hardy.
Goodwill and Salvation Army has been my go to stores for years. GW Monday tag day $1.79. I have found bran new jeans, dress slacks, coats, farm clothes and coats, small appliances and spend a minor fraction of what the cost is in retail stores.
Hope the turkeys are doing ok outside.
Hi.... 🎥👍👍👍
great video! starting chicks soon, hope to add pullets later on this season. I know it's not the norm but I had to price out organic starter feed just for curiosity. Looking at the ingredients label, which has nearly 25 to 30 ingredients I'm a bit concerned. things like synthetic thiamine , l-lysine etc etc.
If this is the jazzz that's in organic, what's in regular feed? Do any simple feed mixes exist for chick / layer feed? Thanks
Love the coat but i didnt see it in your merch shop
Hello great video. How can i get a copy of the pig meat cut list. Do yall ship the meat out.
Turkeys seem to die if you look at them wrong during the first 2 weeks, they also like to pile on top each other and smother themselves… it’s actually amazing there are still turkeys in the wild, living without the help of humans…
I put turkeys & broilers outside with lamps, cardboard, & tarps, in a more flimsy structure from day one-thats their brooder. Put no hay in corners, just under lights. This has worked for 20 years, no matter what outside temp is. They get grass from day one.
You'll also need tarps on the ends of schooners
Hello Chuck,
New subscriber. We live and farm in the Texas panhandle northwest of Lubbock. Enjoy watching your videos. Your area is much different than ours. Where might I find links to North Carolina rules and regs for processing and selling farm raised poultry, beef etc to the public. Thanks!
Hey Ron. NC rules can be found starting here: www.ncagr.gov/MeatPoultry/info.htm
You may have to dig a little from there. Hope it helps.
Looks like a tall chicken tractor.
I was thinking I could free range turkeys during the day - but do hawks take them?
What size and type of tarp do you use for the Suscovich chicken tractor?
You can use either a 10x12 or 10x14. The 14 go all the way to the ground and I actually prefer them to the shorter ones.
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Do you grind the turkey yourself or have them processed?
Great video! What is your most popular way to sell your turkeys at the farmers market? Whole half pieces??
Actually ground. People tend to like the ground because there are so many things you can do with it.
@@SheratonParkFarms wow that’s really interesting as I have never heard of ground turkey. I will have to try that now!
What do you feed your turkey poults?
I need to know…did it work? Did they survive?
At what age are these birds being processed? What breed are they?
We started with 10 last year and 5 decided they no longer wanted to live and checked out. We kept one for ourselves and sold the others. Best turkey ever.
We’ll process at 12-14 weeks. These are broad breasted white. They are great birds.
@@SheratonParkFarms why do you do 12-14 as opposed to 16-20?
@@brich2929 efficiency basically. It takes even more feed to put that extra 2-4 lbs on them.
What band is playing Leaning on the Everlasting Arms as the video ends?
Zachariah Hickman. TH-cam audio library.
You are correct! It’s Zachariah Hickman.
TH-cam has a library of music for video creators that is free to use. As you know, using others music without their permission is a copyright violation so TH-cam provides some options. I tend to stick with their “country/folk” genre as opposed to the “alternative/punk” tunes. 😆
@@SheratonParkFarms we just started a farm TH-cam channel and your music choices have always been a blessing!
And yes definitely sticking with the good old fashioned folk/country.
Now my wife wants turkeys..maybe will do a dozen or so...we're can I get them up in New england??
Awesome. They are great birds. Most of the hatcheries have them. These came from Hoover Hatchery
Where did you get your tarp?
Amazon.
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You left us hanging! Did you lose any birds after 29 degree weather?
How much do you sell a Turkey for
Space needed for 1500 birds
How mean are turkeys in comparison to chickens in regard to predators? Are they as easily preyed on as chickens to say raccoons?
Turkeys are typically as dumb as rocks as chickens are…