Eight advantages of turkey farming

Turkey, scientific name spit shou chicken, also known as seven-sided bird, native to America, is a kind of herbivorous and grain-saving meat high-grade game rare birds. It has the advantages of large body, fast growth, high meat production rate, strong fecundity, easy management, less input, more output and high benefit in turkey breeding, which can increase the breeding income of farmers, and at the same time, it also sounded the horn for adjusting the industrial structure of local agriculture and animal husbandry. Turkey has high edible value and medicinal value, and has broad market prospects. Turkey farming has considerable prospects.

1. The turkey grows big and grows fast.

Under normal circumstances, heavy turkey cocks can reach 16,20kg and hens can reach 915kg in 140 days, medium turkey cocks can reach 1315kg, hens can reach 8kg, light turkey cocks can reach 10kg and hens can reach 5kg.

2. Turkey has a high meat production rate.

The turkey has always been known as the "meat-making machine". It has well-developed breast and leg meat, accounting for more than 40% of the live weight, with a live slaughtering rate of 64% and a carcass slaughtering rate of more than 85%. The weight of breast and leg meat alone accounts for more than 40% of the live weight of all poultry, which cannot be compared with many poultry.

3. Turkey has strong fecundity.

Each turkey can produce 180 eggs per year by artificial incubation and 80,100 eggs per year by natural hatching. The fertilization rate and hatching rate are all above 90%. Turkeys generally begin to lay eggs at the age of 6-7 months, and begin to nest every 15 to 25 eggs, with an incubation period of 26 to 28 days.

4. the baby turkey has high birth weight and high survival rate.

Generally speaking, the weight of a turkey just out of its shell can reach 110g to 130g, and the survival rate is more than 95%.