The best I’ve ever done with turkeys, I had zero idea that they were difficult. I didn’t lose a one, in spite of the fact that they tried to un-alive themselves every day. (They’d sneak and sleep out of their pen almost every night and we have a coyote problem.) You’re doing a great job bringing your pasture back. Thanks for the video!
As well as your beds for potatoes. Have you thought of 5 gallon buckets as well? There are amazing videos of them. I'm really sorry about your poor turkeys❤️
Jason you’re gonna make me cry…….you have come so far from the days when you were afraid of everything…..I am so happy for you and Lorraine and Penelope ❤
The new turkeys look great. Glad you were able to find some local to you. You sound like me when it’s raining 🌧️. I’m like I need more containers to catch the water lol. Homestead is looking great. Have a blessed day 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️👩🏻🌾🌧️
New turkeys look wonderful-definitely grow your own in the future, you’ve got plenty of room. I’ve found free range turkeys do best for me. Never had the white ones.
I've got a friend that work at a TSC.They have gotten several chickbthis year that appeared to be sick so they gave them to the local chicken lady. She gave them selenium and they recovered. These chick's were doing the thing you described about the turkeys. It's worth a try
Looks like you got stew hens going to freezer camp soon. The new turkeys look strong and healthy. Be great if you are able to breed your own stock. Looking forward to see what happens !
Jason we have also been dealing with turkey loss for the last couple of years and we took the step that you talked about. We are are starting our breeding program this year and I'm positive we will have good results with that. Just more food and more time for the heritage breeds. Look forward to seeing how your birds turn out!
Those turkeys you picked up do look good, I am very hopeful! Your land came such a long way from where you started! Great video Jason! Ps. My potatoes plants didn't grow yet, the onions look pathetic so far and kind of everything else. Will see! Hugs 🤗 and blessings to you guys!
For your rain catchment you probably need 8 to 10 more of those bins and scatter them around a couple of new places and just build it up as you go. That’s a lot of water you gotta store. Good luck❤
If these turkeys work out for you I would put in an order for next year and include a couple of tom turkeys so you could breed them. Turkey is not my favorite meat, but there are those who would have them twice a month. But whatever works on your homestead is the way to go. Your pumpkin patch is doing amazing, obviously the tall hills were the way to go. Thanks for sharing, have a Blessed day.
The land looks amazing! Great job! Also, your pumpkins look great! I planted 10 and have lost 9! So strange! My butternuts, same soil, all 10 took and are producing like crazy! Any secrets for pumpkins? lol
The breed you have are really great at hatching and raising their own young You might consider setting yourself up to create your own flock. They get healthier as they go on
Jason I absolutely LOVE your videos and I’m a long time subscriber! It costs nothing to subscribe so why wouldn’t people subscribe? I wish you luck with your turkeys especially the new ones! I hope you do breed them and that you have a continual supply of turkeys on your farm to keep you sustainable! I would be contacting the place where you purchased the initial group of turkeys and asking for reimbursement of the ones you have lost because I don’t think it’s anything you have done wrong I think it’s just been a bad batch. God bless and may you have at least one Tom and one hen in your new batch of heritage breed turkeys! I suspect you won’t lose one of those new turkeys they look incredibly healthy!! 🥰❤️🙏🏻🇨🇦
Is moving the turkeys so often too much for delicate poultry? We're so mentally invested in y'all succeeding that we've been brainstorming. 😢 I hope this works!
Jason Some us people don't know how to prescribe, I don't know if I do it right😱 you got to let us know how to do it, push the buttons😮 prescribed, and and I still don't know if I'm doing it right😢 then all afterwards, I don't know if I do it right🤔
Turkey poults need to be placed in enclosures with wire flooring, three feet high, so their droppings fall through and they do not eat them. Also, keep terramycin in the water to prevent coccidiosis. A 50-percent mortality rate is not unusual.
When you first get the turkeys make sure you only give them water and NO feed for the first couple of hours or they seem to for some reason be very weak turkeys and die the first couple of weeks.
Two years old you classify as a young chicken we get rid of our chickens at two years old they don't lay where the dang after two years they go into the freezer
I raise on average.. 150-200 turkeys every year. I process and sell them fresh at thanksgiving. I raise at least 5 varieties every year and this year I had more loss than in the last 2 years combined. I don't know why or what happened but I will say that I was not happy with Meyer Hatchery from the beginning. Of all that I lost 90% was brooder loss. I plan on losing 10%-13% every year but never dreamed of 50% or more...
Im 5 months late, just seeing this. But the white turkeys have Coccidiosis. Causes weakness, limping, rustled feathers, paralysis, diarrhea eventually death. Its a parasite. They can be treated with a powder called Corid, you can get online or tsc. Put like 1/4 tsp in a gallon of water for a few days, and youll stop loosing birds. Directions and dosage on package. I ran into this with my chickens a few times. Hope I helped somehow. ❤
I suggest you to keep a pair from these turkeys 🦃 as a breeding pair! I think with a free range diet they’ll give you way more than buying every year 10-12 chicks. 🌻 the land looks more fluffy and green, congrats 🥳 🎉 xoxo, Marios from Greece 🇬🇷
I grew up on a farm in Alabama. We never watered anything except the holes where we were planting tomato plants and that was it. We had a few acres of vegetable fields. Grew Corn, green beans, okra, butter beans, butter peas, purple hull peas, squash, cucumbers, turnip greens, collards, mustard greens, tomatoes and that was about it. We had an orchard too and white snd purple grape vines and scuppernong arbor, and herb garden with sage and dill, and lots of Pigs. Smoke house, corn crib, salt box. Two huge Black walnut trees and a Pecan tree, a Quince tree and a huge long deep hedge row where massive black berries grew. Plums, Peach Tree, Apricot Tree, Yellow mellow Apples, Purple Muscadines and a Persimmon tree. Was a historical farm, been there a long time. We never grew onions or potatoes to my memory.
Turkey poults are hard to keep alive. We lost our entire flock of white production turkeys by the time they were 4 months old. VERY frustrating. We tried a different breed (Broad Breasted Bronze) and lost half of them, and they had became aggressively curious by the time they were grown so I wasn't sad to harvest them AT ALL. We switched to a heritage breed (Bourbon Reds) and I love them. They all survived adolescence, did not develop that aggressively curious nature of the other breeds...and they were the BEST tasting turkey anyone in our family had ever eaten. I've got 3 toms and 5 hens, and one is currently hatching out a clutch (one hatched as of yesterday evening). They free range with our other birds and are actually decent guardians and peace-keepers (they keep the top, aggressive rooster in line) I think you'll really see a difference and enjoy turkeys more.
I also showed my white broad breasted turkeys on my RU-vid……. …. I also ran into leg issues but that was avoidable… …I think diet plus careful handling or No handling until turkey/s want to clearly be held or its an emergency relocation. I will return to attempting the beed by next year sometime probably…mean time similar is true about my red burbon’s & blue slate…. I also think initially for at least a month to have perfect temps & ventilation is huge… …I think as chicks they were compareable difficulty as my little pheasants…very fragile.
Hie Jason n family, don’t the chickens need roosting bars especially in rainy seasons in those chicken tractors to make them escape from rain water runoff on the ground? Am just thinking loud, but congrats with the progress made and the efforts n love you put in for your animals even during the rain times. Much appreciated 🤝
Back in the mid 90’s my father in law tried to get us into Tyson chicken farms and we wanted nothing to do with it. This was in Arkansas. Two weeks later a tornado struck the Tyson chicken farm and it literally rained dead chickens !!! Boy am I glad we didn’t get involved with this…. Blessings….
Jason saw you on homestead shop d you mentioned needing a back door. Instead of a regulation door put in French door in dining room and have a deck out back. I'm sure you've already thought of this. But I enjoy your thoughts processes so much. You're doing a great job. I wish Lorraine would come on more too. God continue to bless you guys. Jeanie
Wonder if you have a virus🎉 or bacteria on your feed and/or altering containers. Boil them for a while in bleach water, will them in your scalding equipment. This will rule out that issue
Congratulations on the land improvement I absolutely delight to hear of property improving so rapidly after to soil starts receiving quality care. You two are doing a fantastic job and I love to hear how your efforts are paying off. This is why I watch homesteading channels because I want to see proper land stewardship reaping positive results. I think you who are running homestead channels who oppose CAPO operations ought to show the world how massive Tyson farms are and how little evidence there is of life existing on those farms. Next time you pass one, please stop and show how bleak life is for those birds. We the public need to see it. Tyson does not operate where I live so I do not see it. Good luck on your new turkeys. I agree that they look so much healthier than the other turkeys.
Did the folks at the new turkey farm offer any advice? Were they using a different feed? I hope you figure things out for your turkeys. It must be heartbreaking. But overall your farm is looking so lush and healthy!
We had a small flock of midget white turkeys and they were great! Hatched and raised their own young, very good parents, and hardy. Also just all around fun to have on the farm.
With the amount of land you have depends on the legalities over there why not release some to breed effectively wild on your property then harvest them when need be
