Housing and Fencing for Your Turkeys

The turkeys are very different from chickens with regard to housing requirements and the closing of pastures. Adult turkeys prefer to be outside. These are robust birds, tolerant of many different weather conditions. So you can keep them outside most of the time from the age of eight weeks. Before that, however, you must host them in a incubator, perhaps with access to a solar porch.

Below, review certain basic requirements for housing and elevation of turkeys.

Requirements for turvy turkey

Once your turkeys are old enough to live outside, you should provide them with a perch area with a roof, protection against predators and access to pastures or a fresh range. The essential requirements to raise these birds include:

• Protection against predators
• Dust places
• Perch to fly at night
• Access to the grass range
• Enough space: 75 feet by 75 feet for up to 12 turkeys

These recommendations for perch structures and fenced pens work well when you raise spring turkeys that will be harvested for meat around 28 weeks.

Perch area

The turkeys require raised perrelered points to spend the night hours, ideally with a roof housing to protect them from the elements. It is possible to build a single perch pen with space for several birds (a perch of 5×8 ‘will house around 20 turkeys) or you can build a set of perches. In any case, the assembly of the perch or perch pen on pads or wheels will allow you to move it easily. Move perches around the range of the range helps prevent manure from accumulating in one place.

Wood is an ideal building material (although electric conduits can also be used) to place on wooden pads to maintain the light and easily moved perch structure. If the perch is particularly light, you may have to highlight it so as not to explode. The perches must be about 15 to 30 inches above the ground. If it is higher, an inclined scale structure allows birds to climb towards perching locations. Cover the driving structure with a light metal or fiberglass roof to protect the birds at the rest of the weather.

Fencing

Whether your turkeys are allowed to move on grazing or to be confined to a pen area, the fence material should be as high as possible, at least four feet, since these birds can and will fly. You can also cut the feathers of the wounds wings, because most turkeys will probably remain in the pen happily unless something disrupts them. If you keep your turkeys in a pen, at the top of a fence with a net protects birds and prevents escape.

You can use the electric poultry net for a temporary fence in a grazing adjustment within range. Use woven fences, metallic T posts or wooden posts to build a more permanent speaker.

You can transform the turkeys into pasture with cattle. Birds will improve the earth by eating weed seeds such as nettle, quay and chicory. The turkeys will benefit more in grazing by picking corn and other digested manure of manure and spreading them.

Make sure your fence is rinsing on the ground and robust to protect your turkeys from predators, such as foxes, raccoons and belets.

Housing for reproductive turkeys

There are special requirements to raise reproduction pairs of Toms and chickens to lay and hatch the eggs. When you raise breeding birds, you need to provide winter housing and nesting.

A more solid and permanent turkey house can work well for breeding. Divide the enclosure in at least two spaces to separate the toms and the hens. You can let Toms escape for a few hours each day to graze, then put them back before leaving the chickens to graze. Cexide the birds in the turkey house by offering them a poultry diet. Make sure that turkeys have access to pastures every day, even for the breeding stock. About half of the diet of an adult turkey should be made up of grass and pasture plants.

A small pen or a box with solid sides makes a good space for a sliding hen to hatch the disasters. You can place this pen in the largest turkey house.