The breeders should be fed a good turkey layer feed beginning at least a month before laying, and the young can be fed turkey or game bird starter. Like pheasants and other gamebirds, turkeys require a high protein diety, especially during laying and for raising the chicks. Baby turkeys are called poults. The babies are a downy yellowish brown and unlike most birds the wing feathers are prominent from the beginning. You brood them pretty much like pheasants except raising facilities must be larger because they are larger birds.
Cleanliness is really important because young birds are so susceptible to disease.
Their feed, water and surroundings must be kept as sterile as possible. Always look to buy feed that hs not been stored too long. This is because vitamin content can deteriorate in feed over time. You can mix a vitamin supplement into the feed of wild turkeys or other kinds of gamebirds to be sure they receive all the vitamins and minerals they require. Turkeys are one of the species some breeders really have trouble with in raising chicks if they don't have everything they need in their diet.