Some people never think of raising turkeys at home because they think it will be to difficult but the truth is that after the turkeys are a couple of months old it is very easy to do. The hardest part of raising turkeys is in the first couple of months because you need to ensure that the baby turkeys are getting the proper nutrition and stay warm enough. If this sounds difficult to you the option of buying turkeys that are a little bit older is always available to you. However if you want to start raising turkeys for a small amount of investment it is best to either start raising turkeys with either newborn turkeys or eggs that need to be hatched.
There are a lot of different reasons to consider raising turkeys and here are three of them.
1. Keeping turkeys as a source of food and extra income
Turkey is not just for the holidays anymore it is eaten in many forms throughout the year. It can be use for sliced lunch meat, turkey roast, and even used as a healthy substitute for ground beef.
Turkey that you have raised can also be sold for a profit if you are doing a decent amount of turkey farming.
2. Having turkeys for pets
Some people would rather keep their turkeys as pets instead of for food or profit. Some folks raise turkeys for both food and to keep as pets.
There are a lot of different breeds of turkeys to choose from but there are only two varieties, wild and domestic turkeys. The wild turkeys are turkeys that run free out in the wild even though some are kept as pets. Wild turkeys have the ability to be able to fly if needed and are consider by some the smarter of the two turkeys. The ones we eat are the domestic turkeys and they do not posses the ability to fly The domestic turkeys and wild turkeys are physically different and taste completely different also
3. Keeping turkeys as a pest control
Turkeys have an incredible varied diet which consists of grass seeds, berries, leaves, and a whole lot of insects including mosquito's, flies and ticks among others. This makes turkeys great as a means of pest control and it also makes feeding turkeys easier then ever.
There are a lot of different reasons to consider raising turkeys and here are three of them.
1. Keeping turkeys as a source of food and extra income
Turkey is not just for the holidays anymore it is eaten in many forms throughout the year. It can be use for sliced lunch meat, turkey roast, and even used as a healthy substitute for ground beef.
Turkey that you have raised can also be sold for a profit if you are doing a decent amount of turkey farming.
2. Having turkeys for pets
Some people would rather keep their turkeys as pets instead of for food or profit. Some folks raise turkeys for both food and to keep as pets.
There are a lot of different breeds of turkeys to choose from but there are only two varieties, wild and domestic turkeys. The wild turkeys are turkeys that run free out in the wild even though some are kept as pets. Wild turkeys have the ability to be able to fly if needed and are consider by some the smarter of the two turkeys. The ones we eat are the domestic turkeys and they do not posses the ability to fly The domestic turkeys and wild turkeys are physically different and taste completely different also
3. Keeping turkeys as a pest control
Turkeys have an incredible varied diet which consists of grass seeds, berries, leaves, and a whole lot of insects including mosquito's, flies and ticks among others. This makes turkeys great as a means of pest control and it also makes feeding turkeys easier then ever.
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Raising turkeys is not only fun and rewarding but it can be profitable too. When you have learned the dynamics on how to go about feeding turkeys and taking care of them the right way it will be easy as cake too.
