What We Have Learned So Far: TURKEYS 1

1. Broad white breasted turks are messy and stupid compared to Slates.
2. Turkeys are very quiet compared to the baby chicks. Precocious too - at 1 week, they are already trying to jump up and out of the brooders.
3. They eat a lot of feed too - much more than a comparably sized (older) chick.
4. We went with newspaper bedding for the first few days - then went with second cutting hay as a bedding/supplement. Much better, especially with messy turks. And they eat a bit of it, prepping them for mowing our lawn for us.
   
5. Carol's new style of brooder works really well for ducks, turks, and chicks.

from Poultryhelp.com, we don't have our brooders over carpet!

And this weekend (at 9 days old and with temperature forecast to be 90-92 F), they are going out onto pasture, a la Salatin.