Can you clip a Turkey's wings?

Can you keep turkeys with chickens? I own four chickens, and would like to purchase a turkey or two. My chicken coop has three connected sections- one the size of a school bus, and two of roughly the same size, about 20-fot by 20-foot.
To minimize risk to health/well being of both chooks & turks, permanent division of area into separate sections would be advised. If you are thinking of just raising a few Commercial Broad Breasted for holidays - a "less expansive" cover/run is required, as compared to raising/breeding heritage varieties. Our chook/turk runs share a common fence. I keep black garden fabric zip tied to the 1"x2" welded wire, at roo/tom "eyeball" level to prevent the roo and toms from seeing one another and sparring through fence when their "blood is up" (out of sight is out of mind). Some info/ideas (whole manual is downloadable): http://www.livestockconservancy.org/index.php/resources/internal /turkey-manual One can train about this many heritage turks to roost in a 7'x8' shed, voluntarily (not much different than training dogs if one starts off being "imprinted on").
 
Can you keep turkeys with chickens? I own four chickens, and would like to purchase a turkey or two. My chicken coop has three connected sections- one the size of a school bus, and two of roughly the same size, about 20-fot by 20-foot.
Iknow this is an older thread, but my turkeys and chickens all flock together all day. The turkey will actually warn them if danger is near (a hawk flying overhead) by gobbling, and the chickens all run for cover.
 
Can you keep turkeys with chickens? I own four chickens, and would like to purchase a turkey or two. My chicken coop has three connected sections- one the size of a school bus, and two of roughly the same size, about 20-fot by 20-foot.
Iknow this is an older thread, but my turkeys and chickens all flock together all day. The turkey will actually warn them if danger is near (a hawk flying overhead) by gobbling, and the chickens all run for cover.


Turkey hens are outstanding for aerial preds. Have watched as three of ours, heads tilted so as to eyeball a C-130 (not a plane that flies over often), whining/twitttering as if debating whether to give out with an actual alarm call. Turkey hens will actually "stalk" hawks that land in low branches within "striking distance".
 

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