BrandonM,
I recently ventured into the Turkey raising territory and I can hopefully offer some suggestions that will help. I purchased mine as chicks and kept them in a brooder until they were about a month old. Probably too long, but I didn't have proper housing ready at the time. Instead of building them a coop or tractor, I put them in a large stall I have in the barn. I kept them inside for the first couple weeks, so they could get used to their new environment and then recently began to allow the birds to free range in our pasture. I am not using any electrical fencing of any kind, we just have the standard 4ft hog wire fencing around the pasture. Turkeys are not the brightest birds out there and they tend to stay close to the barn, until I come around and then they will follow me out into the pasture.
I can say that when you free range your birds you will find many benefits. One big one for me was that fact that their waste began to get solid vs. the liquid waste they were producing from just getting the pellet feed. Once they have an opportunity to forage the ground for more nutrients and other such food, their waste became solid. Why is this important? Well until then when a bird would poop the other turkeys would eat it veraciously and it was concerning to me. Its not that big of a deal, however, it was much more messy and plain gross. I think now that they have more room to forage for food and also get more solid nutrients they are not interested in eating each others waste.
Another benefit is they will get more food from the ground and you can save a little bit on pellets or crumble. Not only that, but the birds don't get so bored and will be less likely to peck each other and fight if they are allowed to free range.
