Organic Turkey feed?

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angidee

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I am raising turkeys to harvest for meat, so I want to be feeding organic.
I can't find organic turkey feed ANYWHERE. Anyone have any good sources for organic feed?

I could mix my own grain, but this is a last resort as I do not have access to all the vitamins and minerals that are likely necessary.

HELP?!
 
angidee said:
I am raising turkeys to harvest for meat, so I want to be feeding organic.
I can't find organic turkey feed ANYWHERE. Anyone have any good sources for organic feed?

I could mix my own grain, but this is a last resort as I do not have access to all the vitamins and minerals that are likely necessary.

HELP?!
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What part of Washington are you in? We get our Organic soy -free turkey grower shipped into some of our "mom and pop" type feed stores. It is milled in Bellingham,WA and shipped to some feed stores, or you can pick it up directly at the mill, but that about a 3 hour drive for me. The brand is "Scratch and Peck feed" it's a ".com", you can look up their website. There are a few stores that sell organic turkey food in our area (Coastal Farm Supply is a chain store, some arrow Lumber stores in our areas carry organic feeds)but they all have soy in them, which we are also trying to avoid in our diet .
 
Soy is used because of the high protein that turkeys need.
What do wild turkeys eat in the bush that gives then the level of high protein that they need?
 
Unfortunately, the Stratch and Peck feed didn't work for my turkeys. Because it is a mash, there was a lot of waste. I find that whole grain, feeds seem to only be mash. This just doesn't seem to work for my poultry.
I would settle for an organic pellet feed, but an coming up empty....


If I did mix my own, any suggestions for getting those vitamins and minerals into the mix?
 
angidee said:
Unfortunately, the Stratch and Peck feed didn't work for my turkeys. Because it is a mash, there was a lot of waste. I find that whole grain, feeds seem to only be mash. This just doesn't seem to work for my poultry.
I would settle for an organic pellet feed, but an coming up empty....


If I did mix my own, any suggestions for getting those vitamins and minerals into the mix?
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For me the turkey grower and all their other food is whole grains and the stuff they leave behind (the fining's gets mixed with warm water on a tray with some cooked organic steel cut oats (for my chickens) and they gobble it down, so I have no waste, might try that if you have no other alternative, but I love their feed, it hasn't been heat processed like the pelleted feed or crumbles. For my new poults I use the turkey grower that I grind a little finer and have now started mixing it with water that has a little organic ACV with the mother in it, which I also put in their drinking water and they are doing great. That's what I do for my Eastern Wild poults. MY 16 week old BB Bronze poults gobble it down as it comes right out of the sack and leave nothing behind, little piggies that they are lol.
The turkeys need more Lysine and more Methionine, amino acids, don't know how to get it in the proper proportions for the feed, it would all be guess work for me.
To boost the protein for my new poults they get dried meal worms, hard boiled egg, oatmeal and sunflower seed hearts each day. Don't know if any of this helps or not, but it works for me!
 

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