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.

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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.

Kentucky’s wild turkeys are spending their summer raising their recently hatched poults, so the Department of Fish and ...

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 ...

Munson said the business of raising turkeys is fun, but he also enjoys it when it’s over for the season. “It’s quite a grind,” Munson said. “They’re a little tricky.

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, ...