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If you get them from Cackle and maybe some other hatcheries, you can get as few as you like and fill the rest of the order with cheap chicks. That's what I did.
 
Free-Ranging does not mean you don't feed them.
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I know that. But there is nothing out there for them to eat so they would just run off everything I fed trying to hide from the predators. Lots of coyotes out here. And neighbours who would be way to happy to shoot and eat them.
 
Actually, they would probably find plenty to eat. Lizards, snakes, bugs... But the predators would definitely be a problem, as well as neighbors if they would shoot the turkeys. Too bad the neighbors don't shoot the coyotes and eat them!
 
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In the almost 4 years we've been here the people behind us have lost about a dozen puppies/ small dogs to the coyotes. Everytime one disapears they run out and get a new one. Drives me nuts. They are the ones that would shoot a loose turkey. I think the rest would just complain.

They wouldn't find any snakes or lizzards on our property. Well, maybe a few lizzards. We have a 5 foot wall around our entire property with a big iron gate with rough concrete under it. Combined with the pine trees it makes a great privacy fence and and wind/sand block. We have lots of wild rabbits but have never seen a snake come across that concrete. The turkeys/chickens would have to leave the property and then they would be fair game so no roaming for them.
 

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