Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-02-02

able terms that she End her children want
something to eat. They eat and drink
very little at time, and when their an.
( petite is satisfied go away very contented.
have on idea that every little young
/ thing will try harder to live, and will
grow faster, If 1t is persuaded that its
living and thriving Is 2 matter of special
/ concern TO somebody; SO IN order to con
vince the little turkeys of this fact, and
to make them believe that their food
grows IN my hand, / take them from the
nest when they are only a few hours old
and keep them in box or a basket for
/ two days, and teach them so know my
voice and to eat from my hand.
/ Their food for the irs5 Few weeks CON
sists of egg eustard; the eggs should be
we'll beaten and cooked in fresh sweet
milk until it is about the consistency of
! jelly and soft crumbs of corn breap
| should be stirred into this, when the
little turkeys are about a week old.
Soft batter bread soaked in sweet milk
may be given to them when they are
about month old, and when or 3
months old small grains of different kinds
| as wheat, oats or maize, should be fed TO
them, first iussmall quantities.
They are afraid of any thing new and
will not taste the food until they have
seen it several times, and thea must learn
by trying small quantities at frst, that it
Is not hurtful.
Sweet milk or olabber may be given to
them freely after they are or days
old, but it should be put into very shall
low pans or else they will drown them.
selves in it, or get their downy plumes so
wet and soiled that they will droop and
die, A little turkey does not care to live
unless he is dry and warm and has exact
ly what he wants to eat. When they are
2 days old put them with their mother
in large coop on the dry grass and keep
them up one or two days after which if
the weather Is fair they are let out every
morning as soon as the dew dries on the
grass, and allowed to run at large like
chickens. For my experience coaches
that the sooner they begin to feed upon
insects, their natural food, the healthier
they are. The green spears of fresh,
tender grass and the foliage of white
clover affords them grazing of which
they are very fond,
Where the stock can not have an ex-
q
is of course necessary to their welfare,
chopped onions, lettuce, radishes, cab
bage and almost any kind OF fresh green
things that they will eat wi. help to make
them healthy. Unlike chickens, they do
not like rich food, but are very dainty
and prefer one thing at a time, not OBJ
jecting however TO havoring of red OF
black pepper.
When they are large enough to keep
out of the way of hogs, drive them ont
of the yard into grass lot or meadow,
every day whereve7 the grasshoppers are
most abundant, and if they fail TO core
home about shutdown look for them
until / find them and bring them home,
for they should be taught very early TO
come home TO sleep every night.
To find good supper awaiting them
is a great ipducement. About this time |
permit them TO roost in the turkey tree,
which delights them very mnch. Being
such warm blooded things they require a
great deal of fresh air, and the coop
soon becomes too small and close fer
them.
But when the big "who-whoo" owls
begin calling each other at night, and
each call sounds nearer and nearer, l
grow very uneasy about the little turkeys
out in the tree, and try to persuade my
father TO get up and shoot off his gun,
even If the owls are not in sight They
are such timid birds that the report of
gun frightens them away from the place
for several nights.
Turkeys have a good deal of curiosity
One day took my seat out on the grass
70 eat some fruit, which they were deter
mined TO take away from me. pulled
off my straw hat and threw it down before
them, and they all gathered around it,
stretching their long necks, and gazing
at the black hat band, and saying put
put" as if it had been snake. They do
not appear TO be afraid of snakes and
frogs, but will stand in a ring around on
and look at it for hours.
l think turkeys have a great deal of
sense, but most people do not agree with
me and say they should exchange names
with the goose. They certainly are very
affectionate and when mine are little they
will fly up in my lap and nestle down in
my hand and go to sleep.
If permitted the hens will raise several
broods in a season like chickens, and last
year those Matched in August grew so fast
that by the next spring they could scarcely
be distinguished from the others. The
hens appear to reach maturity much
earlier than the gobbers.
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