My introduction experience extends to bourbon reds, all of my introductions, male or female, have been caged under one day
The Absolute ideal is:
Introduce him by the roost when the others are just flying up to roost there will be disagreements but they have priorities
PLENTY of FEED before during and after accepted
Have at least a few turkeys, but not too many
Have only one Tom, they seem to need (sometimes violently) each other.
One time I introduced a Tom, as the third, he immediately got attacked by both toms, he immediately started to leave straight for home - 30 miles away, he made it about 125 feet and realized it was quite a ways, turned around and decided he would assimilate into the flock, since I had too many turkeys at the time, he immediately paired up with all of the rejects, formed his own "clan" and would incite wars with the other clan, about a week later I had to move two of my hens to another facility for breeding, I took a third hen that I thought was antagonizing the Tom. the clan immediately dissolved into the original flock especially because of the numbers drop. when I introduced these three hens at the other facility, they were intentionally placed on the roost (in a lit barn) between some of the known docile hens. the dominate hens hated it and wanted to get a piece of the new hens but would not lose their roost position to do so, the next day there were some quick (and brutal) fights to find the pecking order and things have been fine since. The three toms had an understanding until I removed one of my original toms (dominate) for staged breeding - then the second tom became dominate and accepted the third tom as his pier.
