New Member from Geelong, Vic

Hi everyone.
Finally I decided to become part of the Backyard chicken world. After searching the internet several hundred times with questions, I always ended up here, with so many great answers.
I have 2 chooks, a duck and 3 turkeys (1 male "Gobbles" and 2 female "Bungy and Norma").
We recently got the 2 female turkeys for Gobbles as he was getting rather attached to me, doing his lovely mating dance occasionally when I would visit and feed them. He only likes me (and my husband) he will attack anyone else. My 11 yr old has been got by him a few times now. He threatens him with being Christmas lunch. So I no longer let my two kids go in as my three year old is just the right height for his claws to get her. But I love him, he follows me around and herds the other animals away from me when I am cleaning out their enclosure. He has a face only a mother could love.

Only the other day I caught him trying to have relations with poor old "Spotty" the chicken. She was none too impressed. The female turkeys are still a bit young for mating, so hopefully the chickens will not have to suffer him stomping on top of them for too much longer!
I have a question about our duck "Quackers", not a very original name. She layed several eggs in a row for the first few weeks we had her, then stopped for months and months and since then layed one every now and then. Is this normal or is it a nutrition issue?? I feed the same to all of them, it a pellet for chooks, turkeys and ducks. They all live in the same enclosure (15m x 40m) and get to free range occasionally. They use to be out everyday until the new turkeys decided to keep going into the neighbours yard and making it near impossible to get them back. I didn't realise they could fly so well. Gobbles is too fat and lazy to go anywhere.

Thanks and I look forward to expanding my world of chickens, turkeys and ducks.
Leese