Can I brood Turkeys, Chicks, Ducks, and Guineas together?

[howfunkyisurchicken]

She was a very good mom! How they take to being moved really just depends on the individual hen. Some of mine I can do whatever with, some will freak out if I look at them wrong. If they need to be moved, do it before you give them the poults and let them settle in. And, if someone decides they want to quit, you'll know before you've given them babies. The same goes with co-parenting. Some don't mind, and some just refuse to share duties. There's really no way to know until you just do it

 

[Laci7210]

Ok I will try that! I got the turkeys! They are bigger than mine, about a week older. I put them under a heat lamp for tonight and I will try the hen in the morning. I hope that she takes them!

 

[Kinmera]

Turkey's are susceptible to more than just blackhead from turkey's. My poults last year were housed in same building with chicks but separate pens. Poults caught some repiratory disease from the chicks and there went one of my daughters 4h market projects as I could not cure it at all

 

[Laci7210]

Oh no! That's horrible! Should they not live with a hen then? I had 2 turkeys last year that I raised from a hatchery. I didn't know about the diseases, so they lived with my chickens. I lost both of them after a few months. They died on the same day, I'm guessing they had blackhead?

 

[MontgomeryTX]

We hatch out 70+ poults every spring. They always get raised with chicks. They get warm days on the grass at 2 weeks. I have not had poult losses any higher than chick losses.

 

[Laci7210]

Ok thank you. That helped! The 4 New ones are a week so they will stay in the brooder for a few more days then get outside days. They were in a car all day before I got to them, so they were slightly dehydrated. 3 are doing fine but one is not doing to good. Hopefully he will get better! Thanks for the advice!

 

[HOSS454]

i have some keets about 4 weeks old or so an im getting chicks in about a week was wonderin how long I needed to keep them seperated

 

[ellen1953]

I can seriously agree with you! My ducks are really messy. It is hard to keep up with them, but 3 times a day go out & clean up their coop. I too have put all my 6 ducks, 2 turkeys and 16 chicks all in the same area.

I do however, have a question. Has anyone heard of a turkey taking care of teeny, tiny chicks? I went out this am and found my smallest chicks under one of my turkeys.

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

I've let my turkey hens hatch out chicken eggs occasionally. They've done well with them, and its a sight seeing those little peepers trailing behind such a huge bird. I have a broody turkey right now. I put most of her eggs in my incubator. So, there's a pretty high chance I'll give her a bunch of chicken eggs to sit on. But, I'll either have to track down some standard sized eggs, or see how she handles little Silkie eggs.
Now that would be a SIGHT, a huge turk raising Silkies

 

[crazyfeathers]

I also seperate my chicks and ducklings. For the first week things go well but after that the ducklings make a mess of the water. My ducklings stay in a prefabricated coop outside, i just move the coop once a week so the ground is not such a wet, dirty, sloppy mess. My ducklings are jumbo pekin and at 3 weeks the size difference is incredible, something got our last two pekin ducks this winter, we have no clue as to what as we haven't lost any other ducks or chickens. :/