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.

Turkeys require about a 10 by 10-foot space for raising ten to twelve-day-old poults, and as they get larger, they will need more space. Turkeys do best on range in a large fenced pen , but they ...

Originally titled “Turkeys Can be a Profitable Sideline” in the March/April 1970 issue of MOTHER EARTH NEWS. When you start producing food for your family, money will begin to lose its importance.

Raising Turkeys Readers might wonder why a conservative political science professor would bother raising turkeys. by Paul Kengor. November 24, 2021, 11:22 PM ...

Raising turkeys, I’ve found, is good for raising kids as well. And homegrown turkeys also taste good on the Thanksgiving table. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

SARANAC LAKE — Raising turkeys in preparation for the Thanksgiving season comes with its challenges in the Adirondacks and, this year, those challenges have multiplied. In the past, regional ...

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 ...