Show Me Your Turkey Runs/coops/enclosures!

[tcwiley]

Here's our turkey Hoop House. We did have them in together with the chickens for about 6 month but the turkeys just got too big and were at the age where they were getting ready to mate so we decided to separate them.

 

[ChicwannaB]

wow, been reading here and love it all. Been wanting to do some turkeys someday but fear what I read about turkeys being able to get "blackhead" from chickens...apparently it's FATAL to the turkeys so I'd have to build something and raise them apart from my chickens. I have 13 fully grown chickens and now 10 babies being raised up in a brooder, 4 at 5 days old and 6 at 4 weeks old.
Thanks for all the ideas.

 

[mdguffey]

will different breeds get along in the coop and yard?

 

[ChicwannaB]

will different breeds get along in the coop and yard?

chicken breeds get along, takes a little while to work out the pecking order but I have 6 different breeds gotten at various ages and They all run as one flock. I do notice that the "types" hang out close together, like the Barred Rocks are always near each other, the Brahmas always near each other etc.

 

[tcwiley]

I have Black Spanish, Blue Slates and a Bourbon Red all in the same coop. They get along fine.

 

[mdguffey]

that is what i was wondering thank you, i am thinking of getting a couple of bourbon reds, royal palms and Narraganset maybe spanish or 2

 

[FarmerGilland]

I built a 6x8 house with a perch on the inside...they have their own little door that they go in and out to the 10x14 attached pin. I have a light on at night and when it gets dark outside the just go into the house.

 

[FarmerGilland]

this is my coop and pin

 

[ChicwannaB]

this is my coop and pin

thats very nice, how many can you keep in this size area?? I think I see 5 in this pic. I may be able to throw something like this together.

 

[FarmerGilland]

The man I bought my turkeys from said that it would hold 10 comfortably.