Mo_fawaazzz
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- Jun 8, 2021
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I wanted to pen up my 6 week old bronze heritage turkeys until their adults before letting them free range but they had other plans...
They stayed in the pen for a few weeks and then they began flying out of the pen and wandering my garden. I gave up trying to contain them and I just leave the pen door open. The turkeys live with chickens and ducks. The ducks stay in the pen regardless of the open door and the 6 week old chickens are free range trained as they already come back home at evening The turkey return back to the pen for food but I still gotta catch them to put them back in their coop.
I was afraid that it would be difficult to teach the poults how to free range because they are so skittish. I heard that turkey hens will run away to lay their eggs in a secluded location or something..
Will they run away and never come back or are they now free-ranging? Are they too young to be free ranging like this?
They stayed in the pen for a few weeks and then they began flying out of the pen and wandering my garden. I gave up trying to contain them and I just leave the pen door open. The turkeys live with chickens and ducks. The ducks stay in the pen regardless of the open door and the 6 week old chickens are free range trained as they already come back home at evening The turkey return back to the pen for food but I still gotta catch them to put them back in their coop.
I was afraid that it would be difficult to teach the poults how to free range because they are so skittish. I heard that turkey hens will run away to lay their eggs in a secluded location or something..
Will they run away and never come back or are they now free-ranging? Are they too young to be free ranging like this?