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Management Practices in turkey
Incubation: The incubation period is 28 days in turkey. There are two methods of incubation. (a) Natural incubation with broody hens: Naturally turkeys are good brooders and the broody hen can hatch...
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Turkeys can be reared under free range or intensive system. Free range system of rearing: Advantages: • It reduces the feed cost by fifty percent. • Low investment. • Cost benefit ratio is high. In the...
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Sexing: Physical appearance of form: 1. Toms are heavier. Matured toms have black bread attached to the skin of the upper breast region. 2. Dew bill or snood, a fleshy protuberance near the base of the...
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The meat of turkey has nutritional and sensorial properties which make it almost ideal raw material for rational and curative nutrition. The turkey can produce 30gm of digestible protein from 100gm...
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Turkey diseases control and treatment
Blue back: Blue back is a permanent dark discoloration of the skin on the back and some- times the side and the breast of the turkeys with dark plumage but not turkeys with white plumage. It is caused...
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