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How do you make sure the chickens don't eat the turkey feed?

We've been considering possibly add one or two or maybe ducks this year so I've bee trying to find more information. How are their temperaments?
 
chickendreams24 said:
How do you make sure the chickens don't eat the turkey feed?

We've been considering possibly add one or two or maybe ducks this year so I've bee trying to find more information. How are their temperaments?
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everybody thinks the others food is better :barnie but I have feed everybody the turkey grower feed for a few months when I had trouble getting the chicken feed i wanted.
The grow out boys grew really big so i may do that again :drool they didn't eat as much either. I guess the higher protein, 22 1/2%, filled them up. The molting chickens grew some weird big feathers though. The higher protein is ok until about 30% then it is bad for chickens. Oyster shells always available for the hens.
I feed fermented feed 2 or 3x a day. what they can eat in a half hour or so.
I put the chicken feed in a side pen and part of the coop the toms can't get into first. Then feed the turkeys out in the yard. Everybody wants to eat what ever was put out last, so the turkeys take over whatever is put out last... the chickens will eat the turkeys leftovers. Which isn't much.
The turkeys can be jerks. My toms don't like certain colors once they are a year old. Red, yellow, some purples will set them off. Reflective tape on shoes and clothing. I sent one to freezer camp before I found how to put them in their place. I got tired of a 25 # bird jumping on my butt with both feet.:rant
I grab them by their ankles and shove their chest on the ground. Take my finger and peck their head hard like another tom would, The other toms come over and peck too :lau. When I let him up he is too busy fighting with the other toms to think about me for weeks... some people don't have this problem, and some do.. so it may be my birds.. or me.:hmm
 
Molpet said:
IF I get fertile eggs you could hatch some for us :wee
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I'd love to! .....as long as I could give them back as poults - or at least most of them. I sort of want a turkey but we live in a neighborhood. At some point common sense hits. So if I can hear several funny turkey stories, I can get my fix via others' experience.
 
Hatching season is on the way!
This week 2 schools just scheduled me to start their incubation units on April 11th. My son's school will also be hatching eggs, but no dates planned yet. I actually ordered 2 doz cheap eggs through 4H. Crazy I know, but I like to have some white eggs for candling and 2 doz was the smallest number I could order from U of I. I'm guessing they'll be a Leghorn hybrid like I used to hatch back when I was teaching.

Looks like May 2nd will be a very busy time. (DD's big recital & the state sci fair also happen that week)
 

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