This has been my first year with heritage turkeys. I have noticed that when the turkeys and chickens free range together that the turkeys bully the chickens, the rooster and tom have issues, turkey breeding season caused a lot more issues when all are free ranged together. Our solution was to separate them into their own free range areas. my turkey hens would not use a nest box, tried several different types of nest, finally fixed them a slightly elevated area with some shade and rain protection and provided hay, they made their own nest, left them no other options as to where to build nest at. Trimmed their wing feathers so they could not fly over the fencing, have electric fencing in addition to the standard fence to keep the critters out (top and bottom strand) the electric fence has stopped bird losses. Planted a green area last fall for the birds, they are still grazing on it. The turkeys eat cracked corn, oats and lay pellets fairly well, they did not eat just lay pellets very well at all. The turkeys would not roost in the shed at all, they roost on an old short table, had to fix them a box to get on to get on the table since they had their wing feathers trimmed. Right now none of them are roosting, they are setting on eggs, the tom included. Don't know if that is normal for a tom or not. Put a hanging feeder and water out for them this week so that when their poults hatch they won't drown in the big water container. Turkey hens are mean when setting on eggs. I love to watch the tom display and strut, he is a standard bronze, the girls are golden phoenix, The poults that I hatched in a incubator have turned out looking like calico"s, royal palms and standard bronze. Porters rare turkeys has a lot of good information and pictures. Now incubating turkey eggs is a whole other post.
