We Are Losing So Many Turkeys
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Today we pick up more turkeys from a local farm, harvest potatoes and get lot's of rain!
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Hi.... Jason and Loraine thanks you for showing your video homestead 🏡🐔🐓🐣🐤🐥🦃🐑🐖🐷🐝🎥👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋👍👍👍
So thrilled you were able to find a local source for turkeys. You just helped another homesteader out ! YAY !!!!
Jason you’re gonna make me cry…….you have come so far from the days when you were afraid of everything…..I am so happy for you and Lorraine and Penelope ❤
My late MIL always grew a slew of potatoes in the sandy loam behind her barn. She told me it’s the sand.
So happy for your local source of heritage breed turkeys where you might even be able to breed your own! The land looks lush!!!
Turkey poults need to be placed in enclosures with wire flooring, three feet high, so their droppings fall through and they do not eat them. Also, keep terramycin in the water to prevent coccidiosis. A 50-percent mortality rate is not unusual.
14 acres... WOW ..
I pray to have a half acre...one day !
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I've got a friend that work at a TSC.They have gotten several chickbthis year that appeared to be sick so they gave them to the local chicken lady. She gave them selenium and they recovered. These chick's were doing the thing you described about the turkeys. It's worth a try
Them are some good looking birds, I would definitely breed them. Can't believe how green your land is now, it was dead when you first moved in 👍👍
God has blessed you and the family so very much!
I loved raising heritage turkeys. Bourbon Reds are calm and friendly. (And beautiful!)
Your land looks nothing like it did when you moved in. Your land management system is working. Great job ‼️
The new turkeys look great. Glad you were able to find some local to you. You sound like me when it’s raining 🌧️. I’m like I need more containers to catch the water lol. Homestead is looking great. Have a blessed day 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️👩🏻🌾🌧️
The best I’ve ever done with turkeys, I had zero idea that they were difficult. I didn’t lose a one, in spite of the fact that they tried to un-alive themselves every day. (They’d sneak and sleep out of their pen almost every night and we have a coyote problem.)
You’re doing a great job bringing your pasture back.
Thanks for the video!
Your land and animals are looking great. Hard work is paying off.
It is so encouraging to watch you problem solve. Homesteading is definitely challenging...it's always something new to figure out or make better!
New turkeys look wonderful-definitely grow your own in the future, you’ve got plenty of room. I’ve found free range turkeys do best for me. Never had the white ones.
Hope all goes well with the new turkeys. Jason you have done a great job with your new property. So much green.
Jason we have also been dealing with turkey loss for the last couple of years and we took the step that you talked about. We are are starting our breeding program this year and I'm positive we will have good results with that. Just more food and more time for the heritage breeds. Look forward to seeing how your birds turn out!
Looking great, I would try to stay local for the Turkey 🦃 for one thing you have some one to talk to. 😊
For your rain catchment you probably need 8 to 10 more of those bins and scatter them around a couple of new places and just build it up as you go. That’s a lot of water you gotta store. Good luck❤
Good luck with your new turkeys. They look very healthy.
Looks like you got stew hens going to freezer camp soon. The new turkeys look strong and healthy. Be great if you are able to breed your own stock. Looking forward to see what happens !
Sow The Land is worthy of a SUBSCRIPTION!! Always enjoy your video's.
If these turkeys work out for you I would put in an order for next year and include a couple of tom turkeys so you could breed them. Turkey is not my favorite meat, but there are those who would have them twice a month. But whatever works on your homestead is the way to go. Your pumpkin patch is doing amazing, obviously the tall hills were the way to go. Thanks for sharing, have a Blessed day.
God bless the new turkeys. 🙏💖🙏
You're such a blessing Jason! Positive, forward moving..live it! God Bless y'all
Jason saw you on homestead shop d you mentioned needing a back door. Instead of a regulation door put in French door in dining room and have a deck out back. I'm sure you've already thought of this. But I enjoy your thoughts processes so much. You're doing a great job. I wish Lorraine would come on more too. God continue to bless you guys. Jeanie
Great Video & these Turkeys look so healthy, can't wait to watch their progress. Cheers Denise- Australia
Your potato crop looks like what I usually get. But I keep planting them
We had a small flock of midget white turkeys and they were great! Hatched and raised their own young, very good parents, and hardy. Also just all around fun to have on the farm.
Thanks for sharing
Jason, sorry about the turkeys. Please do not give up. Buy more turkeys, you are not going to loose your money you bought for the turkeys. Just change your way you take care of them. Keep them in their own home. Do not move them. Turkeys are very delicate. As you are growing them for food, keep them there. Do not allow them close to others the new 6 turleys you got are beautiful. Do some reading about them. Good luck with the new turkeys 😂❤Laura from Rockaway Park,New York
Those turkeys you picked up do look good, I am very hopeful! Your land came such a long way from where you started! Great video Jason! Ps. My potatoes plants didn't grow yet, the onions look pathetic so far and kind of everything else. Will see! Hugs 🤗 and blessings to you guys!
When you first get the turkeys make sure you only give them water and NO feed for the first couple of hours or they seem to for some reason be very weak turkeys and die the first couple of weeks.
I absolutely love that you filmed in the rain. I know it's hard to do and some could complain about the sound but it really was beautiful. Real life right there. Plus I love the rain.
It's looking great over there, Jason! ❤
I grew up on a farm in Alabama. We never watered anything except the holes where we were planting tomato plants and that was it. We had a few acres of vegetable fields. Grew Corn, green beans, okra, butter beans, butter peas, purple hull peas, squash, cucumbers, turnip greens, collards, mustard greens, tomatoes and that was about it. We had an orchard too and white snd purple grape vines and scuppernong arbor, and herb garden with sage and dill, and lots of Pigs. Smoke house, corn crib, salt box. Two huge Black walnut trees and a Pecan tree, a Quince tree and a huge long deep hedge row where massive black berries grew. Plums, Peach Tree, Apricot Tree, Yellow mellow Apples, Purple Muscadines and a Persimmon tree. Was a historical farm, been there a long time.
We never grew onions or potatoes to my memory.
🦃 Another excellent show! 👏👏👏
Awesome turkeys! Breeding them is a great idea!
The baby pigs😍 just fell in love with your guys page after watching the move to this bigger farm. How beautiful!
Every thing looks great! Such big changes and beautiful progress. Still jealous of that barn!!
Jason I love your videos!!! You are so sincere and go after things in such a down to earth way. Love your truck!!
We are having trouble this year with hatching our own eggs out. Never had an issue till this year
You know I read somewhere that when your chickens and turkeys start getting the leg thing you can tie a loose string or a loose rubber band around there legs so they can still walk but they can't split and it should help correct that
Would love to see you overwinter 2 gobblers and 3 hens so you can produce your own poults next year!
Fingers crossed for the new turkeys!
Blue Slate Turkeys do really well for homesteading. I recommend them if you can get something. We butchered a gobbler that was over 30 lbs in 1 year.
The new turkeys look very healthy. Nice video. 💞
Good luck with the turkeys 😁
Best of luck with your new turkeys!!! Your land is looking so good! You all should be proud of your accomplishments. I'm so happy for you!
You are absolutely bringing tears to my eyes.
As well as your beds for potatoes. Have you thought of 5 gallon buckets as well? There are amazing videos of them. I'm really sorry about your poor turkeys❤️
sorry to hear. Once Turkeys hit the juvenile stage they are pretty resilient.
Jason I feel for you guys. I got that much in a 50 ft row last year.
You guys are awesome!! Luck on the turkeys!!
You guys are so bless
Beautiful! The land looks very green and lush. As for spuds, I have always planted them in a trench, with lots of cow or horse manure, they do well every year.
I really like that new chicken mobile house you made, if our property wasn't so hilly I would like one like that for my few(6) chickens. Good luck on the new turkeys, they look stronger that the other ones.
Hope your turkeys do well for you.
Great looking new turkeys. I hope you can solve the problem you had last year of them escaping even though you were trimming their primary feathers.
I suggest you to keep a pair from these turkeys 🦃 as a breeding pair! I think with a free range diet they’ll give you way more than buying every year 10-12 chicks. 🌻 the land looks more fluffy and green, congrats 🥳 🎉 xoxo, Marios from Greece 🇬🇷
Your pastures are looking fantastic. I think the turkeys are vitamin deficient. Just a thought. Love from Texas ❤
What an awesome video today.. We really enjoyed it...
GREAT POST WHAT MORE CAN I SAY! ENJOYED EVERY MIN...WISH IT WAS LONGER! YOUR SUCH A GOOD DAD TO YOUR ANIMALS! YOU HAVE A GOOD THING GOING WITH THE RAIN WATER....SMART MOVE ON YOUR PART!
Beautiful new turkeys. 💚🌞
The breed you have are really great at hatching and raising their own young
You might consider setting yourself up to create your own flock. They get healthier as they go on
Turkey poults are hard to keep alive. We lost our entire flock of white production turkeys by the time they were 4 months old. VERY frustrating. We tried a different breed (Broad Breasted Bronze) and lost half of them, and they had became aggressively curious by the time they were grown so I wasn't sad to harvest them AT ALL. We switched to a heritage breed (Bourbon Reds) and I love them. They all survived adolescence, did not develop that aggressively curious nature of the other breeds...and they were the BEST tasting turkey anyone in our family had ever eaten. I've got 3 toms and 5 hens, and one is currently hatching out a clutch (one hatched as of yesterday evening). They free range with our other birds and are actually decent guardians and peace-keepers (they keep the top, aggressive rooster in line) I think you'll really see a difference and enjoy turkeys more.
You can always tell a Californians! "We need to save the rain!! Save the rain!!" NC'ers "Damn rain, lets dig culverts to get rid of it!"
Yeah, I don’t know anyone who saves rain over here. Lol
I never put my turkeys on soil until they were at least 8 weeks old. I dont recall ever losing any either. Good luck on those heritage that is what I raised!
I lost most of them in the brooder
Heritage turkeys are the way to go.
The leg issue that the turkeys keep getting could be Perosis which is caused by nutritional deficiencies
could be
We've had some gully washers here lately love it! Then it gets humid again😕 good luck with the Turkey🙏
Good idea to rise your own turkeys. Those look good! 👍
I raise on average.. 150-200 turkeys every year. I process and sell them fresh at thanksgiving. I raise at least 5 varieties every year and this year I had more loss than in the last 2 years combined. I don't know why or what happened but I will say that I was not happy with Meyer Hatchery from the beginning. Of all that I lost 90% was brooder loss. I plan on losing 10%-13% every year but never dreamed of 50% or more...
Hey man I've raised a batch of meat chickens on high protein turkey started, they did great on it.
Awesome video Jason 🎉
Im 5 months late, just seeing this. But the white turkeys have Coccidiosis. Causes weakness, limping, rustled feathers, paralysis, diarrhea eventually death. Its a parasite. They can be treated with a powder called Corid, you can get online or tsc. Put like 1/4 tsp in a gallon of water for a few days, and youll stop loosing birds. Directions and dosage on package. I ran into this with my chickens a few times. Hope I helped somehow. ❤
Dont forget to give them grit. 🦃
On the new turkeys I would probably raise them as breeding stock so you have them in the future.
Good luck on the new Turkeys , they look better already!
I wonder if the heat is hurting our poultry. My chickens are not doing well in Central Alabama.
Good luck with the turkeys!
Jason
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I have raised heritage turkeys for awhile, and they are a lot more sustainable. they do go broody easy and hatch their own eggs, but the survival rate of the poults is pretty low for a large variety of reasons. the hens will fight over chicks and crush them, hawks, etc. I take the eggs and incubate them and raise them in a brooder box for 6 weeks, then introduce them to the flock while they are young. so far I have never lost one in the first 6 weeks raised like this. The fertility of the eggs in spring is generally above 90 percent and the hatch rate is over 80 percent. They are really a sustainable, reliable source of meat and side income, both in selling fertilized eggs and selling young birds. I would recommend it to anyone looking to be more self sufficient. The fact they free range well and do not go far is also nice. my chickens range further from the coop than the turkeys do, and if raised in their own house, mine at least, always go inside at night without an issue.
Fingers crossed 🤞 on the new turkey birds !
Like the looks of the new turkeys
Jason I absolutely LOVE your videos and I’m a long time subscriber! It costs nothing to subscribe so why wouldn’t people subscribe? I wish you luck with your turkeys especially the new ones! I hope you do breed them and that you have a continual supply of turkeys on your farm to keep you sustainable! I would be contacting the place where you purchased the initial group of turkeys and asking for reimbursement of the ones you have lost because I don’t think it’s anything you have done wrong I think it’s just been a bad batch. God bless and may you have at least one Tom and one hen in your new batch of heritage breed turkeys! I suspect you won’t lose one of those new turkeys they look incredibly healthy!! 🥰❤️🙏🏻🇨🇦
Garden was also crap this year from all the rain
Good Luck with your new turkeys❗️And all your animals❗️
Thanks
Beautiful footage ❤
Farm looking so good!!
Having been born close by they might be better at acclimating to your farm. You may want to do magic water for the white turkeys.
Your land looks beautiful. Great work.
We had 4 bronze breasted and the lost 3.. haven tried again. Blessings on your perseverance.
The land looks amazing! Great job! Also, your pumpkins look great! I planted 10 and have lost 9! So strange! My butternuts, same soil, all 10 took and are producing like crazy! Any secrets for pumpkins? lol
I think they need some wild DNA added and you have plenty in the woods near by. My mom lives near you there was some in yard this morning.
Like I said before . . . potatoes need a percentage of sand in the soil . . . and a guess about the turkeys . . . confined space, not enough exercise you're feeding them for growth but the growing bones are not exercising to strengthen, logic. Cheers.
Be careful for lightening!
Everyone I know who have the heritage breeds say they are much heartier than the white. I‘ve had the bronze and white with no problems.