It is important to make sure your brooder space is clean and disinfected prior to using it, especially if poultry have been kept there before. Whether you have them on bedding or on a wire floor, there should be some type of solid wall or partition around them to prevent drafts. Make sure dogs, cats and rodents are kept out. What works best for larger areas is a brooder ring of cardboard 18 inches high with a heat lamp hung over the center of the area.
Hang the heat lamp about 18 inches above the floor at first. Raise the lamp every days to gradually decrease the heat level to degrees. Bedding: Use 2 to 4 inches of dry litter, such as pine wood shavings, chopped straw or other appropriate bedding. Do not use newspaper or other slick material, this can cause legs to slip out from underneath them and cause serious leg problems. We also don't advise using cedar chips, treated shavings, large thick wood chips or dusty sawdust as bedding.
Water: Make sure you provide plenty of containers of water based on amount of poultry. Use one one-gallon chick water for 25 chicks or poults. Provide room temperature water. We recommend adding our Streseez Plus 1 teaspoon per three gallons of water to their drinking water.
Protein should be at least 26 to 28 percent for starter and fed for the first six weeks. After six weeks, you can switch to a grower feed at least 20 percent protein which is higher than the requirement for chickens and broiler feed ask your local feed dealer.
We suggest notifying your post office to let them know you are expecting an order of live animals. After arrival introduce room temperature water first, this is the most important nutrient after being in transit. Baby poultry may carry germs that can make people very sick. Avoid contaminating human food and always wash your hands after caring for them.
When they are cold they will be loud and huddle close together, if comfortable they will be reasonably quiet. If they are huddled to one side there is a draft moving the heat to that direction. Huddling closely under the lamp indicates they need more heat.
If they are spread out throughout the pen drinking, eating and sleeping you have a perfect living space. One heat lamp can handle about 50 turkeys. Midget Whites are capable of breeding naturally. They also lay lots of eggs - up to 80 eggs a year. They tend to be good mothers. Don't be tempted to breed your largest Midget Whites. To responsibility preserve this breed, it is best to breed the smaller birds. Temperament: Midget Whites behave like their larger turkey counterparts, although they seem in general to be more friendly and curious.
Some individuals can be very personable while others may be more aggressive. Turkeys are protective animals and will alert the farmyard to predators and strangers. Note that due to their small size, these turkeys can fly. History: Midget White Turkeys are a relatively new breed, developed in the middle of the 20th century. They were developed by Bob Smyth at the University of Massachusetts, the result of a breeding program working toward an efficient, productive turkey for small farms.
Soon after its development, the Midget White Program was disbanded, and Midget Whites would have been lost if it wasn't for the preservation work of a graduate student of Smyth's, who continued the work on them at the University of Wisconsin.
Midget Whites continue to require active conservation. Color Description: Midget White Turkeys are all white with pinkish-red legs and feet and facial coloration. My Cart. Chickens Purpose. Best Egg Layers. Our prices have not been set for next year.
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