![]() Choose the breed that you will be excited to see everyday! The specific heritage breed that you should raise is up to you. If you are wanting to raise a breed of turkey that can reproduce, you’ll need to be thinking one of the heritage breeds, not broad breasted anything. These birds will finish at 16-20 weeks, depending upon how big you want them to get before processing. Breed Of Turkeyīreed matters regarding growth and ability to keep some of the turkeys as breeding stock.įor the fastest growth, you’ll need to purchase broad breasted turkeys. turkeys and 20 as a minimum on the heritage birds. The hatchery I looked at has 8 poults as a minimum on B.B. In order to keep the turkey poults warm during shipping, there will be an order minimum that you need for your birds. You will have an order minimum for poults If you want a nice, plump bird go with broad breasted turkeys. ![]() turkey breeds and heritage breeds is the growth rate and the ability to be kept as breeding stock.īoth make fine eating turkeys, it’s more about what you prefer taste wise. Read my article 10 Breeds Of Turkeys for the breed characteristics. The lower priced poults are the Broad Breasted White turkeys and the higher priced poults are the heritage breeds. The price of your poults will vary with the breed you choose to raise. Cost of a turkey poult is $8.02-13.86 each Broad Breasted turkey poult Now you need to ask yourself, is the $50 bucks you save worth doing the work to raise your own turkeys? Here’s a good looking market turkey at our county fair. Note that this table is for heritage breed turkeys.īoth these tables show that no matter which breed of turkey you choose to raise you will save a significant amount of money raising your own turkeys rather than buying them from someone else. ![]() (price from line above with processing fees removed) Money you save raising and processing turkeys each ![]() (difference between bought and raised turkeys) Heritage turkeys cost $52.49 to raise Cost of poult (heritage turkey) each ![]()
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