Turkeys to be sold on the Thanksgiving market should be getting their start in life now, says A. J. Chadwell, Extension poultry specialist. While turkeys are not hard to start, they must be handled somewhat differently from chicks. Poults require slightly higher brooding temperature than chicks, for example. They are a little slower to start eating....

Poults like milk. In no case, Chadwell says, should one try to raise turkeys with chickens or on land used by chickens.