We bought 4 of the broad breasted white turkeys and they are about 8 weeks old now and are doing fine. I put them in with the chickens and ducks yesterday and they are in the tractor now, too and are adjusting well. I've heard that they will be ok for about a year and THEN would get blackleg...
And they are AMAZING. I guess Orscheln's uses them exclusively and I am VERY happy with my birds. I have a few Banties from them that I got at Orschelns, too. So far so good. They will fit right in with our "motley crew" once they are able to. We have a female mallard that was supposed to...
I am an old timer from WAY back and had everything on our farm and now I'm starting over again and feel like a total newbie with our new Buff Orpinton's and our barred sexlinks fryers (and 2 Pekin ducks that we just got today)....I am looking for the plans for the simple chicken wire, "tunnel"...