Where do your turkeys sleep

[Zeddemore]

last week I got 4 "midget white" turkeys. All seems well and they all get along well. They eat like champs are friendly and are just a blast to have. My hen is laying about an egg a day right now(which I feel should come to an end rather soon since I have read they are seasonal layers.)

Currently they are in a large pen with 5 foot welded wire around it and netting over the top so they can't fly out(my hen escaped once and wondered around my neighbors yard a few houses down from mine already)

My big question is where do your turkeys sleep? Do you lock them up at night? Let them roost outside?

Mine show no interest in sleeping inside. Even if I lock them in all they do is try and get out. Right now my hen and 2 poults will sleep on the roost outside and the male sleeps on the ground right next to them. Should I keep locking them up? Or should I cover the roost section with some plastic or tarp to keep the rain off of them?

My chickens go to bed each night on there own. I'm just not sure what to do about the turkeys.

 

[SunHwaKwon]

I made a roost 6' up in my chicken run. I arched cattle panel across the top and a tarp over that for inclement weather. They were good about putting themselves to bed each night. My husband made me sell them though.

Definitely lock them up. I had a very large male that did not like to fly up to sleep because he was so heavy and he took to roosting on the edge of the pickup bed, until one night a raccoon got him.

 

[3-Bearss]

our 3 Wild Eastern turkeys like to sleep outside. If I would let them they would sleep on the roof of our 6 1/2 foot high Coop. I put then in our fully wire enclosed run and they like to roost at 6 feet up.

 

[Zeddemore]

Maybe I'll let them keep doing what they are doing. Ill rework the roost so the tom is able to get up there as well.

The enclosure is fully closed in.

 

[danielley101215]

My turkeys sleep inside an enclosed pen.

 

[TurkeyTimes]

My turkeys free range and put themselves to bed at night in an enclosed coop. It all depends on where the food is and if they have nice roosts.