Looking for Turkey Poults

[Ed Thayer]

We are looking to add a small flock of turkeys to our farm and would like them ready to eat for Fall. Are there any members near Washington, NH that raise or sell them? I would need a little education regarding raising them as well. We would like to free range them when they are able and close them in at night.

We raise and process about 60 meat chickens now and think a small flock of turkeys would compliment the freezer.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

ED

[dominiquer60]

http://www.neppahatchery.net/

It is hard to find small commercial hatcheries in the upper northeast. I know of Yankee chicks, but they are really brokers and get chicks from western NY and PA. The NEPPA Hatchery (Northeast Pasture Poultry Assoc) is in Fort Plain, NY in Amish Country. The Geis’s are actually draft people them selves and have had articles in SFJ. Though NEPPA is a dead organization now, they received a grant from Heifer International to start the hatchery so that producers in the Northeast had a source of quality chicks that did not have to be shipped half way across the country to get here. They buy eggs from Myers of PA and hatch them out in NY, . When I lived next to Bennington, VT the chicks would hatch on Tuesday and they would be waiting for me Wednesday first thing at the local post office. I have rarely ever lost a bird that they have shipped, even in the summer or cool months. I highly recommend them.

[dominiquer60]

http://www.neppahatchery.net/

It is hard to find small commercial hatcheries in the upper northeast. I know of Yankee chicks, but they are really brokers and get chicks from western NY and PA. The NEPPA Hatchery (Northeast Pasture Poultry Assoc) is in Fort Plain, NY in Amish Country. The Geis’s are actually draft people them selves and have had articles in SFJ. Though NEPPA is a dead organization now, they received a grant from Heifer International to start the hatchery so that producers in the Northeast had a source of quality chicks that did not have to be shipped half way across the country to get here. They buy eggs from Myers of PA and hatch them out in NY, . When I lived next to Bennington, VT the chicks would hatch on Tuesday and they would be waiting for me Wednesday first thing at the local post office. I have rarely ever lost a bird that they have shipped, even in the summer or cool months. I highly recommend them.

[Ed Thayer]

Thank you Erika. Good information. I will get in touch with them.

Ed

[mink]

hi ed how did your chicken raising go last year?

[Ed Thayer]

We were very impressed with the heartiness of the birds. We raised about 55 red’s and processed them at the farm. They averaged about 5lbs after butchering with some over 6lbs and a few in the high 4lb range.

Very tasty over the winter. We are going to raise around 70 this year. We free ranged them in a tractor we built that measured 8′ x 16′. Never lost a bird to a predator but did loose several during the heat wave in late July.

We had a an initial capitol outlay for the electric netting, tractor materials and processing equipment, but will be much better prepared for this season.

Ed

[dominiquer60]

One thing I for got to mention is that they have very limited choices, white broiler, red broiler, red sex-linked layer, white turkeys or Pekin ducks. They used to only have 3 choices so they are expanding by adding the red broilers and ducks. Though limited in choices, the quality is high.

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