Turkeyfed.com.au Website Review

Turkey has become one of Australia’s more popular meats with many people seeing the fantastic taste and health benefits of turkey, particularly for those on a low-fat diet. The Australas*an Turkey Federation (ATF) is an organisation for turkey producers and turkey The Australas*an Turkey Federation can provide an update on turkey grower’s news and events The Australas*an Turkey Federation has more than 20 members and others are welcome to become a member of ATF Within the ATF there are two main turkey producers in the turkey market and other processors of various size. These suppliers cover .block data-cycle-pager=#per-slide-template data-cycle-prev=#prev data-cycle-next=#next data-cycle-swipe=true Free range turkeys are produced on a few small fa*ms and these fetch a premium price. Some producers claim to have organically-grown turkeys but it is now difficult to obtain organically-grown feedstuffs and to conform to other requirements. There are five dedicated turkey processing plants and about six that process turkeys and chickens. White, hybrid turkeys are used almost exclusively and artificial insemination is practiced rather than natural mating. The main challenges to turkey producers are environmental control, egg production consistency, brooding of turkey poults and litter management due to caking and aggravated by drinking water spillage. Demand for whole turkeys is mainly at Christmas and then for the smaller birds of 4.5kg – 6.5kg live weight. For large growers this may only be 10% of production. The rest of the year demand is for further processed products such as boned or semi de-boned products. Feed contributes to 60% of turkey production and the cost of raising turkey poults is about 15%. Diets are specially formulated and from the first 2-3 weeks turkey poults are fed a high protein pre-starter diet then a starter diet with declining levels of protein but A turkey hen may lay more than 100 eggs per year but fewer than 90 turkey poults will survive to turkey procession weight from these