Housing turkeys in my sheep barn?

[bocephus]

Well so far mine are doing fine together. I'm hoping the the turkeys are cutting down on my tick population. They must have read my post because the next day they were at every corner of the 3 acre pasture. They come back to the barn every night before sunset and roost on the sheep pen walls. They have no interest in the turkey pen I built them. I'm thinking of building a ground level door to see if the hens will go in. This way I could put nesting boxes in there and maybe they'll lay eggs in there.

Kind of okay because I bought some pullets from someone else. Since the 1 year olds have no interest in the turkey pen I locked the door and am using it to transition some 8 week olds. The sheep bother the turkeys way more than the turkeys bother the sheep. The sheep are curious, they love seeing what the barn cats are up to and they attempt to go sniff at the turkeys. The turkeys don't care for this at all and run away. With the sheep being so curious about the turkeys at this point there is a chance of them crushing eggs if any are laid.

One problem I've read is that the sheep will eat the turkey feed. So I put my turkey feed outside of the sheep pen. The hens all hop the wall and just eat their feed out there. The tom, even though he is capable of roosting on the wall, I've never seen him eat the turkey feed.

When the turkeys are in the pasture they seem to be eating a lot of just plain old grass and other leafy things, I assume this is fine?

Here's a pic of the gang

 

[gretdame]

LOL because they originaly came from Iceland? here is some info
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/sheep/icelandic/index.htm

 

[frank53061]

As far as what I know of sheep there nice looking and I really like the long flowing wool on them is that different from your standard sheep wool my daughter knits and has wanted some raw wool to card spin and knit.

Sorry for getting off topic here I cant give you any advice for housing sheep with Turkeys I hope someone here chimes in and has done what you are trying to do or are doing looks like they don't mind being around each other.
The only other thing I can think of would be any health issues housing them together.
As long as you keep things fairly clean I cant see a problem but I,m just guessing.

Best of luck to you.