How to Raise Turkeys for Meat Broad-breasted tom turkeys can weigh as much as 50 pounds at maturity, while heritage toms typically reach a mature size of 20 to 25 pounds.

Requirements for Raising Turkeys . Once your turkeys are old enough to live outside, you must provide them a roosting area with a roof, protection from predators, and access to fresh pasture or range.

Requirements for Raising Turkeys. Once your turkeys are old enough to live outside, you must provide them a roosting area with a roof, protection from predators, and access to fresh pasture or range.

Now, the farm produces meat from just under 30 cows per year, along with 200 turkeys, 75 lambs, and 1,300 chickens. The family acquires around 18 pasture-raised pigs each year from a neighboring ...

For comparison, Edelen said that he knows farmers in Seguin selling turkeys for $7.50 a pound. They raise heritage and traditional turkey breeds there. At his farm in Alice, ...

The family switched from turkey breeding to raising market turkeys for meat in the end of 2019. In February, Sawatzke took KARE 11 into her brood barn where more than 17,000 poults had just arrived.