New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1906-08-25
TURKEYS PROPITABI..

A'' Di"b'h VI poultry culture
is so much neglected as the rails.
ing OF turkeys. believe this is
accounted for by the mistaken
idea which generally prevails that
turkeys are very hard to raise,
and that the breeder must ex-
pect to lose at least half or three.
fourths of the young birds that
are hatched, says Mrs. Charles
Jones in Successful Poultry
journal.
] have been raising turkeys for
a good many years, and at the
beginning | expected to, and did
lose a large number OF birds. |
began to carefully study the
trouble, knowing that there could
be no effect without cause, and
that turkeys, if Matched strong
and healthy, should live with the
same treatment that nature had
laid down for that class Of fowls
In cases where this heavy loss
occurs, it is nearly always the
result of methods of feeding
provided the young birds are
Matched in perfect health. The
old method was to keep them
cooped and fed upon sour milk
curd as a steady diet, without
grit of any kind to aid digestion.
The belief was that the birds
themselves could select the nee
essary grit. This might be all
right on the old New Hampshire
gritty hills, but upon our prairie
soil it is another question.
Turkeys in their wild state
pick up worms, grasshoppers
and other animal food, and grit
is absolutely necessary for them.
| read everything could find on
turkey raising, and finally adopt |
cd the following methods of feed |
ing: AS the birds must have
some form of meat food or its
equivalent, l prepare eggs by
putting them in cold water and
1t to boil, which is
continued from half an hour TO
IN hour. This mode of cooking
makes the eggs crumbly instead
IT leathery, as is the case when
hey are put into boiling water at
he start. Turkeys are disposed
% liver diseases and any food
hat will keep the liver in good
will keep the birds
Healthy. l feed them eggs
hopped up, shell and all, with a
title chick grit, for the first two
lays. i then chop dandelion
caves with the egg. and add the :
our milk curd with always al |
title grit, in the morning. At
Don l feed a little curd, and at
light chop onions in the place /,
( dandelion. In this way / sue. !
eed in raising all the chicks that
hatch without the loss Of a sin
le one.
/ keep them clean and free +
rom lice and make their food :
bout half green food of some =
md, az this helps to grow large :
'ames. Care should be taken =
not feed all that they will eat '
any one time, as overlooking
i'll easily kill the young ones. u
any breeders who have adopted q
lis method Of feeding have writ o
n me that their birds do well, Is
I'd that there are no losses y
here overlooking is not prac- IL
led. / feed only two eggs to "
'out fifty young turkeys,at each o.
eding, although three or four IA
ight not be too many. II plenty %
green food Is used. l feed e
iy three times a day and call Ia
EN- back to their coops each Is
ne; this prevents them from !"
ting tho habit Of wandering re
+ away. I raise them in the II
eeding yards until they are six q
,eks or two months old, at I'll
Itch time they are no longer Oh
ntented to stay there and 1t Is III
cessary to allow them range an
. foraging. For the FIRST four 'n
vs. | always coop them in large. ~
Y coops, in which fresh air Is u.
.ured by lacking on wire net TN
z on one side of the coop, ne
ere large opening has been 70
de. The coop should be moved 'yo