Feeding turkeys and chickens together

 Hi,

 We plan on getting 10 poults and raising them with some day old chicks. We will buy 10 and select 1 or 2 pairs for breeding.

 Question #1 Is it ok to feed Turkey feed to the chickens or is the protein too high? We are wondering if we need to feed them seperately.

 Question #2  Do we need to seperate them from each other for nesting/raising the babies we hope to have?

  We will be converting an old 17 x 7 travel trailer to house them in.

  Thanks for you help.

  Gail

  Thanks Kuntrygirl for your help. We will keep them seperate except on pasture. Do you have a hard time taking the poults away from the mother? I'm wondering how protective they are of the babies.

Thanks. Since we are new to Turkeys I think we will keep them seperate for right now except maybe for pasture.

Hey Kuntrygirl, I see you raise Bourbon Reds. That is what we will be starting with (unless I change my mind again). I also like the Royal Palms. Since we have a 17 x 7 travel trailer we are thinking about dividing this in half (8x7) with an outside kennel (not sure about the size). We will buy 10 poults and keep maybe 3 or 4. We only want to end up with a good breeding pair. We would like to keep as much of the trailer available for future use for either chickens or Royal Palms. We want to be able to expand possibly in the future so we are trying to plan ahead. We also live on a main truck route so we can't let the birds out to free range unless we are out to watch them. Does our idea sound logical or is the space not big enough. Any thoughts are greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Thanks Kuntrygirl. My subscription feature is doing the same thing some of the time. I live on a main road and with the coyotes we have I won't risk free ranging them although I would really like to. We will give them as much space as we can for now and build their outside pen with the option to expand in the future. Thanks.