Should chicks be kept in same brooder with ducks, geese, and turkeys?

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Is it okay to have chicks in the same brooder with a few baby ducks, geese, and turkeys?

Or should the ducks, geese, and turkeys each have their own brooder?
 
I've house baby chicks and duck together for a week before the ducks out grow the chicks.
I read turkeys should be housed by them selfs due to the diseases of some sort.
 
I was thinking that geese and turkeys could be too large to be put in the same brooder as chicks. But I had not thought about transmitting disease from one to the other.
 
Can the chicks, ducks, and geese be kept in the same brooder, at least for the first week? A baby goose is much bigger than a chick or a duckling.

I guess any turkeys need their own brooder.
 
Can the chicks, ducks, and geese be kept in the same brooder, at least for the first week? A baby goose is much bigger than a chick or a duckling.

I guess any turkeys need their own brooder.
I had baby geese in there own brooder because even when hatched are twice the size of a chick but a duckling could be house in with them for a week.
 
You could keep them together but be warned, ducklings are messy. Even for 1 week. They LOVE water and get it everywhere. I moved my 6 rouens outside at 1 week because of the smell/mess.
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They are adorable though.
 

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