The survival rate of turkey breeding is the key to do a good job of raising turkeys in spring.

Turkey has the advantages of fast growth, more meat, good meat quality, rich nutrition, delicious taste, suitable for feeding, resistance to coarse food, strong disease resistance and so on. The key to raising turkeys is to improve the survival rate of brooding in spring.

Turkey

I. initial feeding and management

After the chicks come out of the shell, those who are equipped with a drying room can breed turkey chicks on the Internet in the drying room. If there is no drying room, it can be irradiated in separate boxes with 40-60 watts light bulbs. The temperature of 1-2-week-old chicks should be controlled at 32-35 ℃. Put the chicks into a cardboard box about 60cm in length and about 45cm in width. Generally, 20 chicks are packed in a cardboard box. Cover the top of the box with a cloth or a newspaper with a vent. Cover the box with 6cm thick cut 5cm long clean straw or other softer hay, prepare water and full price chicken feed. The feed can be fed dry in summer and autumn, and should be mixed with warm water in spring and winter. The chicks in the incubator keep opening their mouths, the temperature in the box is too high, put the light bulb up a little; if the chicks huddle together and keep barking, the temperature is low, put the light bulb down a little bit. There are also four taboos.

1. Prevent sudden power outage. If the power goes out suddenly for 1-2 hours in winter or early spring, the chicks will freeze to death. For this reason, generators should be provided in the farm.

2. Don't put the chicks in the sun in summer and autumn when the temperature is high.

3. Avoid dampness in the box. The straw in the box is often replaced, and the carton is replaced and used, and the replaced carton should be dried in the sun.

4. Don't let the mother turkey bring the baby turkey. After coming out of the shell, the little turkey is raised in the incubator to avoid the cold wind.

2. Mid-term feeding and management

The temperature in the box of 3-4-week-old chicks was controlled at 25-30 ℃. In the middle stage, the food intake of chicks increased, and feed and water should be supplied, but they should still be raised in boxes and should not be kept separately. Chopped onions and garlic can be added to the feed to provide titanium to the turkey. Feed with vegetable leaves should not be fed too much to prevent diarrhea.

Turkey

III. Feeding and management in the later stage

Chicks at the age of 5-6 weeks can be put into the nursery during the day in summer and autumn, but they should still be put in the incubator at night to prevent a sudden drop in temperature at night. The top of the box is covered with anti-mosquito gauze to avoid chicken pox caused by mosquito bites. If there is a sudden storm during the day and the temperature drops suddenly, the chicks should be caught in the incubator immediately and should be protected against house rats and weasels at night. Turkeys within 2 months of age are mainly kept in captivity and should not be released as far as possible, so as to reduce the survival rate by accidental surprise attack. Since then began to graze, every day grazing should also be controlled within 4 hours, waiting for young chickens, can be scattered all day. At the same time, farmers should feed turkeys according to local conditions, pay attention to the full price of nutrition, and add a small amount of fish meal, soybean meal, salt, amino acids and bone meal.

IV. Disease prevention and treatment

1. Hygiene of the henhouse: when turkeys enter the henhouse for breeding, 2 inches of sand, sawdust or cut straw should be laid on the ground and replaced regularly, and the disinfection of the henhouse should be institutionalized.

2, vaccine prevention: at 7 days old, turkeys were given nose drops of Newcastle disease Ⅰ strain, with 2-3 drops for each chick; at 30 days old, turkeys were given nose drops or chest muscle injection with Newcastle disease Ⅱ vaccine; at 60 days old, turkeys were injected once with Ⅰ vaccine, and turkeys were regularly fed with rice soaked in liquor, so that they would not get chicken plague later.

3. Deworming and disease prevention: turkeys are fed with diets with metronidazole and Changchongqing for 3 days a month, twice a day, 2 tablets per turkey each time, crushed and mixed into the feed. Appropriate amount of expired penicillin and streptomycin can also be put into a water basin for turkeys to drink to prevent the occurrence of cecal hepatitis and intestinal parasitic diseases.