If you have raised meat chickens , you can raise turkeys! They take a little longer to get to butcher weight but they also grow to 15 to 24 pounds of delicious turkey meat. Turkey poults and meat chicks together Ordering your turkey poults We actually recommend you start your turkeys at the same time as your meat birds. The turkey poults will follow the meat chicks to the water and feed therefore this helps them learn faster. We start 5 turkey poults with our 25 meat chicks