How to make your own turkey shed
Turkeys in adulthood do not require special care, but the room in which they live must comply with all rules and standards. It is necessary to build a shed for turkeys so that the individuals live and develop normally. If some rules are violated when arranging a specially designated place, then the likelihood that the bird will get sick more often, develop incorrectly and incubate several times fewer eggs than a turkey incubating in normal conditions increases.
Diy turkey shed
The habitat for turkeys should be comfortable for birds, and it is also imperative to comply with standards and norms that relate to hygiene, turkey poultry must be dry, normally lit and clean.
To make a barn for all turkeys good and functional, use drawings, recommendations, study photos and videos on this topic. You can organize such a device on your home farm if you have your own plot. Many farmers build a poultry house or a house from polycarbonate, panels, make a kind of sandwich from improvised means. The price of such an aviary from a cage can be lower than for a ready-made poultry house. making a shed or pens for turkeys with your own hands is not difficult, you just need to prepare a little for this issue.
Ventilation system of a turkey house
It is advisable to build a frame aviary on the home territory in such a way that it is possible to organize a ventilation system there. The requirements should be as follows: the house where the Turkeys will live and develop must be well ventilated. You can make on your site such a system as a chimney. If we are building a pipe, then we need to adhere to a special scheme, therefore, the construction of a poultry house must be planned in advance, and taking into account this feature. Fresh air must constantly flow into the room, but it must also be taken into account that the bird should not suffer from drafts, heat or severe frosts.
for a proper ventilation system, it is necessary to create a kind of container measuring about 25 x 25 cm. Such a box will be the basis of the entire ventilation system. You need to install the box on the roof or on the ceiling, the structure must be strong with a small valve, which is necessary to regulate the air flow, that is, with its help You can adjust how much air will enter the barn. If you build this structure correctly, your birds will receive good air, and in addition, they will develop correctly, less likely to succumb to diseases, which in turn develop precisely because of polluted air.
This box is not a heavy structure, and it is easy to make with your own hands, a high-quality box will serve you for several years. Many farmers use special humidifiers to humidify the room. If at the initial stage keeping and breeding turkeys, it is costly, then You can decompose wet expanded clay near the barn. birds should not suffer from dry or too humid air. It is desirable that ventilation and humidity work at the same time, thereby creating ideal conditions.
How to make a floor in a poultry house?
Gender deserves no less attention. Its arrangement must be carefully thought out. the floor in the turkey house should be flat, warm and smooth. If you make the floor in a mesh, then the legs of the young animals can fall through the mesh. When building a floor in a barn, it is recommended to retreat from the ground about 20-25 cm. The turkey house should be equipped, in addition to the floor, with windows, through which the sun's rays will flow, which have a good effect on the birds and their development. Windows should be located so that in the daytime the floor is illuminated with daylight throughout its entire area.
If you comply with such needs of turkeys, they will thank them that they will be less sick and grow actively, in addition, Turkeys will lead a correct lifestyle. In addition to properly positioned floor and windows, you also need to think about special loopholes. Outlets should be 50 to 50 centimeters long. Thanks to such exits, birds can easily move around not only inside their place of residence, but also outside it. To keep the heat in the norm inside the turkey house, the manholes are equipped with double dampers.
Turkey roosts
The bird roost should be smooth
This business also has its own Requirements. Perch for caged or other turkeys, it should be smooth and removable. Most often, special perches are placed in the heated part of the barn, so construction can begin there. A roost for a domestic individual may look like an ordinary slide, in which the last rows are located higher than the front ones. to build such an important element of a turkey poultry, prepare beams (7x7 centimeters) with slightly rounded ends.
The distance between the beams should be about half a meter, and the perches should be placed at a height of 80 cm from the floor.
If you wish, pull-out shields can be placed under the perches to help you manage droppings, and the barn and its inhabitants will be cleaner. If you have any difficulties regarding the construction of roosts, it is recommended to use drawings, photographs or videos, in them You can learn in detail about all the details and important points that relate to turkey roosts.
We place equipment for turkeys in the barn
In the poultry house with your own hands You can make feeders and drinkers... Drawings of various types of structures are not difficult to perform even for an unprepared person, most often primitive equipment for birds is made of several structures and simply fastened with improvised materials. for farm birds such as turkeys, there are several types of feeders at once:
- Elongated feeder in the form of a small trough.
- In the form of a groove.
therefore, the size of your herd must be taken into account in order to select the right feeders. Feeders are attached in accordance with the height of the bird, namely at the level of its back. so that the food does not disappear and your money does not go away, it is necessary to pour food no higher than a third of the height of the feeder. for dry feed - bunker feeders are excellent, and for mineral feed it is recommended to use separate feeders, and place them at a distance of about 40 cm from the floor. A special feed additive is added to this trough daily.
so that different types of feed do not mix with each other in the feeders, it is important to use partitions in the turkey house, which allows one feeder to be divided into different compartments.
Thanks to such divisions, you get the optimal distribution of diet for your birds. As for the drinkers, they also vary, but their placement matches the neck level of the turkeys.to maintain cleanliness in the turkey house, use special nets with which to cover the drinkers, but do not forget that you need to place the net so that the bird can freely reach the water. If you follow the rules for placing equipment in the poultry house, then you will keep the barn clean, and this is the main factor affecting the health.
Organization of walks
The turkey poultry house should be built in such a way that the individuals are comfortable there. Also, the bird needs proper organization of walking, which is a prerequisite for the life of the bird. The best option for a turkey when it has 20 square meters of free air space, but when you look at this size through the eyes of a turkey farmer in a normal home, these sizes are very large. In order for the turkeys to be happy and benefit exclusively from being outdoors, the soil must be prepared in advance of the birds settling in the barn.
The soil must be sown with seeds of useful and perennial grasses, the most suitable are alfalfa or clover. Also on the ground You can sow any kind of annual grass, as it is no less useful, among them - oats, peas. If the area near the barn is sown with such grasses, then for turkeys this is a real find, especially for characteristic individuals. a turkey differs from its own kind in that it is more active and mobile, and therefore requires space. For example, a turkey can safely walk several kilometers and go back to the poultry house, but a turkey that has its young returns to such walks only after the cubs have lived for 2-3 weeks.
Why turkeys need free range?
Correctly organized walking of turkeys is necessary in order for the individual to eat a variety of foods and receive vitamin D. After all, when walking, Turkeys feed on substances that are exclusively useful for themselves. After all, Turkeys, like ordinary birds, are able to get themselves worms, larvae, bugs, they also feed on nuts, seeds. For a beginner farmer, you can watch a video on this topic or chat on forums with various breeders to learn how to properly organize a walk. The best place for grazing turkeys is that on the territory of which there are various shrubs, the land is overgrown with grass, and there is a place with shade, since the birds must be able to hide from the hot sun.
It is worth noting that during hot days, birds seek shaded places to hide. Do not think that turkeys need a walk only in warm seasons, in winter, regardless of frost. Turkeys also need walks. But in order for the birds to safely walk around the enclosure in winter, it must be covered with a large amount of straw, which is better prepared in summer. If the weather is too windy and frosty, then you should not let the birds go outside to keep them healthy and safe. Winter provides some chores exclusively for the breeder, for example to get your herd to go for a walk.
This is due to the fact that there is no grass on the ground in the winter, there are no different beetles and worms, which attracts turkeys in the summer, so breeders should lure out individuals with the help of food that the wards love. Farmers often cover the ground with grains, and decorate the enclosure fence with hay, which smells fragrant and reminds individuals of summer. Such tricks in winter help to lure the turkeys out into the street, where they, in turn, feed on substances useful for the body, breathe fresh air, which is very necessary for turkeys, especially in winter, when the body is weakened.