Turkeys are an excellent source of succulent meat, rich eggs, and nutrient-dense manure, and raising them is a rewarding and profitable activity for many farmers. With helpful tips on acquiring organic certification, processing both meat and eggs, and marketing your products, you’ll have all the information you need to successfully raise your own healthy and productive turkeys.

Celebrated turkey farm The Local Homestead presents a beautiful book on how to raise turkeys for sustainability and profit. The Local Homestead's guide is written with careful attention to detail by an author with experience raising over a dozen different types of turkeys and a university degree in Animal Science. This comprehensive book is designed to provide the fresh, reliable, uncomplicated knowledge and tools you need to raise healthy and thriving turkeys successfully. Within its pages, you'll find a personalized roadmap to guide you confidently through each important step of raising turkeys. Step 1: Plan Step 2: Brooder Care Step 3: Juvenile Care Step 4: Breeder Care Step 5: Sell With unwavering guidance, this essential resource unlocks the secrets to raising turkeys. Backed by insightful professional advice, gorgeous photography, and practical tips, The Local Homestead's handbook is an indispensable tool for seasoned pros and beginners alike.

A New York Times Bestseller! From the bestselling How to Catch series comes a festive turkey tale and Thanksgiving book for kids! A turkey is running loose in a school right before a Thanksgiving play. Can YOU help catch it so the show can go on? Follow along as students turn their school upside down trying to catch the turkey, ending with a twist that ensures no turkeys are harmed (or eaten!). This hilariously zany children's picture book combines STEAM concepts and traps with a silly story and fun illustrations, perfect for starting a new fall family tradition this autumn or giving as a Thanksgiving gift for kids ages 4 and up! Thanksgiving time is here again, but there's a turkey on the run! Can you catch this tricky bird before the school play has begun? Also in the How to Catch Series: How to Catch a Unicorn How to Catch the Easter Bunny How to Catch an Elf How to Catch a Monster How to Catch a Leprechaun and more!

Whether it's for their succulent meat, nutrient-dense manure, or rich eggs, raising turkeys have proven to be both a profitable and practical venture for farmers and homeowners alike. Master the basics of raising turkeys for home consumption or farm use with "Raising Turkeys: Beginners Guide to Raising Healthy and Happy Turkeys" by experienced livestock expert Irene Mills! In this game-changing book, aspiring turkey farmers like you will: Learn exactly how much time and resources to invest in raising turkeys to get a realistic preview of what you're getting yourself into Live up to the requirements for raising happy healthy turkey chicks and adults to ensure you get the best meat and other turkey products Choose and build a proper enclosure to raise your turkeys in, from coops to feeders, bedding, toys, and more Carefully pick the right breed for your needs, whether it's a Heritage turkey, a Blue Slate turkey, or a Beltsville Small White turkey Ensure your turkeys live their best, healthiest life using expert maintenance, nutrition, and cleaning tips Keep your turkeys in top shape by finding out how to best groom them, including trimming claws, beaks, and spurs as well as preparing them to weather changes Learn common turkey health issues, from diseases and infections to parasites that hamper their development Properly process your turkeys to ensure a hygienic and high-quality yield every single time, from best practices to preparing the perfect turkey dinner

- A National Wild Turkey Federation and U.S. Forest Service book - Standard reference for all subspecies - Extensive, new information on all aspects of wild turkey ecology and management The standard reference for all subspecies--Eastern, Gould's, Merriam's, Florida and Rio Grande--The Wild Turkey summarizes the new technologies and studies leading to better understanding and management.Synthesizing the work of all current experts, The Wild Turkey presents extensive, new data on restoration techniques; population influences and management; physical characteristics and behavior; habitat use by season, sex, and age; historic and seasonal ranges and habitat types; and nesting ecology.The book is designed to further the already incredible comeback of America's wild turkey.

A Beginner’s Guide to raising Turkeys - Raising Turkeys in Your Backyard for Pleasure and Profit Table of Contents Introduction Turkey Varieties How to Choose the Best Turkeys for Breeding Egg Production Incubation of Turkey Eggs How to Test Turkey Eggs Housing Your Birds Span Roof Lean to Roosts Some Tips Ranging Baby Turkeys Containers for Food Feeding Your Turkeys Fattening Your Turkey Chicks Growers Mash How to Prepare a Turkey For Table Smoked Turkey Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction Did you know that turkeys are native to the New World- i.e North America, and have been around for millenniums? So, is it a wonder that when these delicious and pompous birds reached the shores of Europe in the 16th century, thanks to the traders in West Indies and Spain, they were immediately added to exotic and popular fare. And since then, a turkey dinner, especially on Thanksgiving and on Christmas was soon a part of the social fabric. Turkeys may not be eaten as often as you eat chicken, but you can always have them for Turkey sandwiches. Turkish traders and merchants brought them to Europe by ship, and that is why the name “turkey” became synonymous with this unusually funny looking and self-important birds strutting about in your backyard. Once upon a time there were also called the Indian fowl. I was under the impression that that was because the Native Americans were called Indians at that time. They knew the value of this bird and hunted it regularly. That was until I found out that the “Indian” part of the name came from the European tendency of naming exotic birds, with the names of exotic lands. So the Catalans called it Gall d’inde and the French also called it Poulet d’inde meaning fowl from India. In Hebrew, it is called Tarnegol Hodu – rooster of India. And the irony is that in Turkey, it is called Hindi which means related to India! In reality, Indians of India did not know about this bird until the Britishers brought it to India for their turkey dinners in the late 18th and 19th century. But these are native birds living for millenniums in the North American continent. Wild turkeys also known to the first settlers as “gobblers” soon became a part of the dining table, and the Puritans must have been really surprised at such a show of pomp and colorful splendor in a gobbler.