I think my tom is broken

[Soph Loves Chooks]

Last year we decided to let one of our chickens raise a baby turkey, everything worked out fine! The turkey, we’ve named Jedi, is healthy and strong but, sometimes wrong with him. He has absolutely no interest in breeding with our female turkey (who is desperately trying to hatch babies) and is instead going for random mounds of dirt, random objects on the ground, and disgustingly- horse crap. And he is always fixated on the chickens, almost to an aggressive point.

Is there anything we can do to “fix” him? Or undo his imprinting on the chickens?

 

[Molpet]

First year I never seen mine breed, but hatched a bunch
Look for a bullseye

 

[R2elk]

Last year we decided to let one of our chickens raise a baby turkey, everything worked out fine! The turkey, we’ve named Jedi, is healthy and strong but, sometimes wrong with him. He has absolutely no interest in breeding with our female turkey (who is desperately trying to hatch babies) and is instead going for random mounds of dirt, random objects on the ground, and disgustingly- horse crap. And he is always fixated on the chickens, almost to an aggressive point.

Is there anything we can do to “fix” him? Or undo his imprinting on the chickens?

Pen him with just the turkey hen. Preferably do it so he is out of sight of the chickens.

 

[Soph Loves Chooks]

First year I never seen mine breed, but hatched a bunch
Look for a bullseye
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I have, and nothing. She also sat on five eggs for a couple weeks, no signs of babies in any of them