If you raise toms with chicks they get imprinted and will not recognize a difference between turkeys and chickens when they grow up. Toms without turkey hens around will try to breed anything including chickens. It does not end well with the result usually being flat (dead) chickens.
Turkey poults imprint extremely easily thus removing their ability to differentiate between them and non turkeys. The only toms that I have had any problems with when they were adults were the ones that had been imprinted when they were little. A frequent complaint has been "My tom is wonderful to me but hates my husband or son." This is usually due to having been bonded to the poster and through either jealousy or protection is trying to keep the bonded person to himself.
It is not a good idea to have a pair of turkeys unless both are hens. Toms and hens do not do well in pairs as the tom will normally over mate with the hen and become harmful to her health.
Both hens and toms will go through their pecking order fights. The more you interfere, the longer it will take for them to settle their differences.
