@Spaulding Smails These are our first 2 turkeys. We got them as the third ābatchā along with 2 Easter somethingās and 3 silkies. Even though they were all 3 weeks old, I assume because they were so large, the chickens chic thought they were their moms. They tried to snuggle under neath them, did the thing where they try to hop on their backs, and generally screamed their heads off if the āturkey mommiesā were more than 3 feet away. That set were kept together for the last few weeks in their own coop. As of last night, we finally have almost all the chickens in one coop. Weāre just waiting for the last Cochin (2 weeks) to get a little bigger. Our 2 turkeys donāt seem to wander any more than the chickens. They do seem to try to get higher up at an earlier age though. They also have been protecting the chicks they were raised with from the old chickens as well as they can
@High Plains Drifter our silkie went broodie at the same time we put our ayams in the incubator. We ended up giving her 3 of the 12 just to see how sheād do. When they hatched we slowly gave her all the chics. Granted 10 may be on the edge of being too many for 1 silkie, but it has been great. We didnāt have to use a heat lamp and sheās helped introduce them to the yard earlier than we might have otherwise. Sheās also the queen bitch now. Also her chicks are more tame faster than the motherless chicks because she taught them first thing to come to us when we say chick chick chick.