Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Norma Sutton <sweetspringfarm@gmail.com>]

Doug turkeys can get blackhead from chickens IF the chickens are carrying it.  That's the only one I've every heard of and since I was already running them together before I found it out and the turkeys didn't croak my chickens aren't carrying it.  The other reason to not run them together is that toms are DUMB and will breed anything . . . including the roosters.  I lost a rooster to the tom early on.
Norma

On 5/28/10, Doug Willhite <drwillhite@earthlink.net> wrote:

A couple of different folks on this listserve mentioned that they let
their chickens and turkeys hang out together.  I don't have a link
for it handy, but I read once that that is a big no-no!  :)  They
said chix & turkeys should always be kept in separate areas because
diseases easily spread back and forth between them.

my two cents...
doug

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