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fully feathered and do it slowly unless it warm, turkey poults are a bit fragile when young, it a hen has raised them just keep them out of the rain
the only turkeys I've lost is a hen with poults, for some reason she sat in the middle of the yard in the open. all my other hens have had on problems. I've got foxes, coyotes, mink, weasels, coon, possum, owls, hawks, eagles and stray dogs, if my birds go into the trees they are OK, had 16 of...
mine go into to the trees, no coops, roosts or anything special, remember turkeys can fly, the only ones that can't are the broad breasted
they like to brood too, this one kicked a goose off her nest and took over, hatched them to, raised ten poults with the geese never lost one ( midget white...