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1. Tips On Raising Turkeys -
Terminologies and Facts You
Should Know
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Ideally, before you raise turkeys, it is helpful that you know the
terminologies and interesting facts about turkeys so that you wouldn't be

2. thrown off guard when you read any related materials about turkeys.
Raising turkeys on a small farm can be fun and profitable because they can
be rotated like any other cash crop on your property. If you have a few acres
that you could rotate pastured turkeys on, this could be a good side
business for the small farmer.
Here are some terminologies to broaden your horizon when you raise
turkeys:
Tom
Adult male turkey
Hen
Adult female turkey
Poult
Young one of turkey
Snood or Dew bill
The fleshy protuberance near the base of the beck
Caruncles
The fleshy protuberance on the head and neck usually pink or red in color
which appear from about 5th week of age

3. Dewlap
A large flap skin seen immediately below the chin
Bread
A tuft of hair attached to the skin of the upper chest region
Strut
Mating behavior of male turkey
Shooting the red
The development of caruncles and this is supposed to indicate the most
difficult time in the life of young turkey
Debeaking
Poults should be debeaked to control feather picking and cannibalism.
Debeaking can be done at day old or 3-5 weeks of age. Remove the beak at
about one half the distance from nostril to the tip of the beak.
Desnooding
Removal of the snood or dewbill is to prevent the head injuries from
picking and fighting. At the day old the snood can be removed by
shumbnail or finger pressure. At 3 weeks of age it can be cut off close to the
head with sharp scissors.
Detoeing or toe clipping

4. Clipping is done at day old by removing the tip of the toe just to the inside
of the outer most toe pad including the entire toenail.
When most people think of a turkey they think of Thanksgiving dinner.
While most who raise turkeys raise them for eating, some keep turkeys as a
pet. And some do both, keep some as a pet while eating the others. There
are many different breeds of turkeys, however there are two varieties,
domestic and wild. The wild turkey lives and breeds in the wild and some
are kept as pets. It can fly and is said to be smarter than the domestic.
The domestic turkey are the type eaten on thanksgiving and they cannot fly.
The domestic and wild turkeys are physically different. Domestic turkeys
are much larger than the wild turkeys. Wild turkeys have brown tipped
tails, while the domestic is white. A wild turkey is much faster than the
domestic turkey. The fastest wild turkey can run up to 35 mph, while a full
grown domestic turkeys pace is a slow walk (females are a little faster
because they weigh less than the male). Wild Turkeys have better eyesight
and hearing than domestic turkeys. Only male turkeys gobble, female
turkeys make a clucking sound but cannot gobble. Only the male turkey can
fan his tail feathers, females cannot.
The turkeys crop is also called the craw. When turkeys feed they swallow
lots of food which is stored in their crop. They then go to a safe place to loaf
and process the food. Before you raise turkeys too, you need to know that
turkeys don't have teeth, but they grind their food (even hard seeds and
nuts like acorns) in their second stomach, the gizzard. This is the muscular
stomach below the crop which is the glandular stomach. Look for the
gizzard in the giblet bag.
All commercial turkeys produced today are the white broad breasted turkey
breed. This breed was first used for commercial turkey production in the

5. late 1950's. By the late 1960's the majority of the industry used this turkey
breed.
The cost of raising a turkey is affected by many factors, including buildings,
equipment, labor, feed costs, and interest on loans. Feed costs amount to
almost two thirds of the cost of raising a turkey. Geographic location,
degree of automation, and size of the farm all contribute to differences in
the costs of raising turkeys.
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