Will a turkey mate with a chicken?

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Betty-Eve said:
I have only just hatched a little turkey (1 out of 4 eggs) but have geese, ducks, chickens and will let them all roam together (all wormed regular) just wondered if I only have one tureky and its a stag will it try to mate the chickens? I have 2 cockerals with 12 chickens 1 male goose with 3 females 1 drake duck with 3 females - they dont bother one another just wondered with a turkey so similar to chickens will he try to mate them?
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Our male turkey is constantly trying to mate with the chickens. He has his own female sidekick but he's interested in the chickens too. I'm afraid he's going to hurt them. He just might end up on the table...
 
ChickenPooDo said:
I've read that you can cross chicken with turkey, but the offspring are all males
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There are lots of false reports of chicken turkey hybrids on the internet but research on hybrids from crossing a chicken with a turkey is that there have never been any reported live offspring.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7288138

What normally happens from attempted chicken turkey matings are flattened (dead) chickens.
 
I caught my your Bourbon Red Tom on top of my same-aged Brahma hen. Luckily, she was wearing a hen saddle, but this still didn't fully protect her. My poor girl was absolutely covered by him as she patiently waited for him to finish. I gently moved him off of her and found her already bare back was freshly bruised more than it had been before. He is definitely fertile as I have 2 thriving eggs in my incubator from his BR hen.
 
TestaRosaFarm4 said:
I caught my your Bourbon Red Tom on top of my same-aged Brahma hen. Luckily, she was wearing a hen saddle, but this still didn't fully protect her. My poor girl was absolutely covered by him as she patiently waited for him to finish. I gently moved him off of her and found her already bare back was freshly bruised more than it had been before. He is definitely fertile as I have 2 thriving eggs in my incubator from his BR hen.
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You need to separate your chickens from your tom before he starts killing them.
 

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