Turkey Signals follows the cycle on a commercial turkey farm. The book describes how turkey focused management will improve production and welfare of the turkeys and thus the turkey farmer’s financial results.
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Turkey Signals is part of the Poultry Signals series©. Poultry Signals presents practical knowledge of animal oriented poultry farming in an easy, accessible format.
Turkey Signals is a practical guide that shows you how to pick up the signals given by your animals at an early stage, how to interpret them and what action to take. This is a book with over 850 photographs and illustrations; a must-have for anyone involved in turkey farming.
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A practical guide to turkey focused management
A practical guide to turkey focused management
On a global scale, turkey production volumes are relatively stable. Efficiency improvement is the main challenge for every turkey farmer. This starts with reducing unnecessary losses. One dead turkey is a relatively high cost for a turkey farmer, compared to a broiler chicken. Turkeys live for longer, so its death after 20 weeks of feeding and care is a significant loss... Reducing mortality should therefore obtain your full attention. Average turkeys weigh twice as much as they did 75 years ago, in a much shorter production period. This means higher demands on farmer skills and more focus on stress reduction for the turkeys.
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