dealing with feed when laying chickens and turkeys free-range

[bkvail]

I have 4 free-range turkeys and 4 free- range chickens. My chickens prefer the turkey feed, and are not eating enough of their layer feed - and one chicken laid a soft-shell egg yesterday. How do others deal with the feed requirement differences when you free-range chickens and turkeys both?

 

[SpringChickens]

I have goats which LOVE my chicken feed, so I lock my chickens up when I feed them once in the middle of the day, and they have their feed when I lock them up at night. Can you lock your turkeys up occasionally to feed them?

 

[bkvail]

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the only place I have to lock them in at - the chickens can (and do) fly into.

 

[dbone]

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can you roof it, or clip their wings?

 

[bkvail]

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can you roof it, or clip their wings?

not possible to roof it, and I want them to be able to fly up to their roost at night (that is in the fenced area that they fly into).

I hear others saying they feed their layers oyster shell? Is that for the calcium and do they LIKE it where if I were to put it inside their enclosure that they fly into to lay eggs and to roost, will they eat it (that way the turkeys couldn't get it).

 

[Poupoulles]

Oystershell is good, I also feed my chickens their own eggshells. Some people say this encourages egg eating, but I have not seen it.