Hi everyone! I'm Mariah. My husband, two boys and I move to Oregon from Alaska last summer. It's been quite an adventure. We bought five chicks last September an we've never looked back.
Our girls are: Moxie, white Leighton; Judy, Rhode Island Red; Lottie, australorp; Fred, silver laced wyandotte and Trixie, who we bought as a golden lace wyandotte...but I think she's a mongrel.
We feed organic food and supplement with lots of fresh goodies. They're pretty spoiled, actually! We get four or five eggs a day, religiously.
Also, yesterday my neighbor came and knocked on my door to ask if any of our "turkeys" had gotten loose. I said we only had chickens and she let me know there were two baby poults in our front yard.
I have never owned turkeys! I put them in a large dog kennel with some turkey poult food, grit and fresh water, in case anyone came looking for them, but so far nothing. So I move the kennel into the girls' outside area and I guess we will be adding two turkeys to the flock. I'm guessing they're about 5 weeks old. And they're all white. We have named them Maple and Fig.
I've been keeping them in th kennel for now, besides a couple very supervised meetings with the chickens, who are being pretty bratty about the whole thing. Hopefully that won't last too long and the little ones can be comfortably integrated into the flock.
I'd love any and all tips, hints, tricks, book suggestions...anything reputable and reliability about turkeys -- there's just not as much out there for them as there is for chickens!
Mariah
Our girls are: Moxie, white Leighton; Judy, Rhode Island Red; Lottie, australorp; Fred, silver laced wyandotte and Trixie, who we bought as a golden lace wyandotte...but I think she's a mongrel.
We feed organic food and supplement with lots of fresh goodies. They're pretty spoiled, actually! We get four or five eggs a day, religiously.
Also, yesterday my neighbor came and knocked on my door to ask if any of our "turkeys" had gotten loose. I said we only had chickens and she let me know there were two baby poults in our front yard.
I have never owned turkeys! I put them in a large dog kennel with some turkey poult food, grit and fresh water, in case anyone came looking for them, but so far nothing. So I move the kennel into the girls' outside area and I guess we will be adding two turkeys to the flock. I'm guessing they're about 5 weeks old. And they're all white. We have named them Maple and Fig.
I've been keeping them in th kennel for now, besides a couple very supervised meetings with the chickens, who are being pretty bratty about the whole thing. Hopefully that won't last too long and the little ones can be comfortably integrated into the flock.
I'd love any and all tips, hints, tricks, book suggestions...anything reputable and reliability about turkeys -- there's just not as much out there for them as there is for chickens!
Mariah
and Welcome To BYC! The main problem you may have with housing turkeys with chickens is blackhead if you have it in your area 
