Securing Early Turkeys by Stimulated Egg Production

CONFINEMENT methods of raising turkeys have been used for several years and are becoming increasingly important as diseases grow more prevalent. Information on the rate of growth and feed consumption of young turkeys is still very limited in amount. There are less experimental data to be found on such factors as production of early eggs and poults, annual egg production, inbreeding, fertility, hatchability, confinement of breeding turkeys and feed consumption of breeding turkeys. With the increased numbers of turkeys raised the last few years has come a demand for more experimental data on factors related to turkey production. So far as the authors are aware, no information is available on the production of early turkeys and confinement of breeding turkeys. This paper is a preliminary report of observations gathered from breeding turkeys. EXPERIMENTAL The data were secured from the 1931–1932 records of the experimental flock of Bronze turkeys belonging . . .