Turkey tunnel ?

[B1rd Buddy]

I am planning to make a turkey tunnel. My search doesn't come up with a single mention of such a thing anywhere in the Googleverse. Am I overlooking some obvious reason why no one does this? I am raising my first pair of poults in the brooder at the moment.

 

[R2elk]

I am planning to make a turkey tunnel. My search doesn't come up with a single mention of such a thing anywhere in the Googleverse. Am I overlooking some obvious reason why no one does this? I am raising my first pair of poults in the brooder at the moment.

Why? Turkeys don't live in tunnels.

 

[casportpony]

I am planning to make a turkey tunnel. My search doesn't come up with a single mention of such a thing anywhere in the Googleverse. Am I overlooking some obvious reason why no one does this? I am raising my first pair of poults in the brooder at the moment.

You could make one:

Chicken Tunnel

WINTER IS COMING Fall is here and it's time to start prepping the garden for winter. To help in the work involved I have enlisted my Golden Comets. The challenge I faced was how to allow the chickens safe and consistent access to the garden that is on the other side of the yard. My solution...

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[Molpet]

I am planning to make a turkey tunnel. My search doesn't come up with a single mention of such a thing anywhere in the Googleverse. Am I overlooking some obvious reason why no one does this? I am raising my first pair of poults in the brooder at the moment.

That would be a large tunnel.

Poultry tend to find novel to commit suicide. I was looking for a missing one when I came home from a feed run.... and finally found in the poultry wire fence....it hanging by it's wings like a Gothic fallen angel . How the heck he managed it I don't know.

 

[R2elk]

You could make one:

Chicken Tunnel

WINTER IS COMING Fall is here and it's time to start prepping the garden for winter. To help in the work involved I have enlisted my Golden Comets. The challenge I faced was how to allow the chickens safe and consistent access to the garden that is on the other side of the yard. My solution...

• Wilson74
• Sep 28, 2017
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Again, why? It's not something that turkeys would take to. They would far rather fly over such an obstacle than crawl through it.

 

[B1rd Buddy]

Again, why? It's not something that turkeys would take to. They would far rather fly over such an obstacle than crawl through it.

I had a bad raccoon attack on my chickens and had to start over. So in addition to reinforcing the coop, I was brainstorming ways to allow my new brooder tenants to free range without having to be watched constantly.

Besides the raccoon massacre, I had a hawk (or eagle) going after my chickens; heard commotion and arrived in the nick of time to see it flying away "empty-handed." Last year in broad daylight about 75 yards from me, a coyote lunged at them as they free-ranged at the edge of the woods. I scared it off and none was hurt.

Since my post, I've built a fenced-in turkey pen. The storage area of my coop is a safe haven. They have a door to get out and rest under a covered overhang and a third zone of sunny roosting space. Under construction, the outside roosting area is 8'x10' and 8' high. There will be a 3 foot high 1/2" steel mesh along the bottom with a 2-ft apron and an electric fence.