Turkey pens ideas

Breed groups of turkeys

It is important to consider the needs of a turkey in providing a safe and secure refuge. A turkey shelter needs to be draft free to start.

Why raise boring old chickens when you can raise the greatest bird known to poultry? Here, we walk you through how to raise turkeys in your backyard.

Learn basic housing and fencing requirements for raising turkeys, including roosting structures, pen enclosures, and turkey houses for breeding birds.

Turkey house

After realizing that the new artificial tree we built for the turkey roost is too high for the toms to fly up to it, I decided to add a side "branch" to make it more appealing. We built two arms, extending out about 3 feet from two of the posts, about half way up. Lag screw and nails fastened it. Then we nailed 16 foot 2x4's across the arms for roosts, leaving about a foot of space between each one. When finished, it looked like a big jungle gym. The finished turkey roost with side roost…

Coop design for Turkeys. After 16 years of raising heritage turkeys we based our coop design directly on how the turkey hen and her poults use the pen until we set them loose to roost in a tree.

I have finally (after many, many tries) built a Turkey house that they will stay in at night....

One of the mama turkey hens keeps trying to nest on the shelf in the turkey house that we use to store extra feeders and waterers. Since this shelf is about six foot off the ground we know that if the babies fall off that shelf they will probably break their neck. For some reason this one hen thinks she's an eagle or something. So O Wise One compromised and since she obviously does not want to nest on the ground with all the other hens he built her a nesting box up off the ground. Geez…

Raising turkeys is a great way to provide meat for your family. Here you can learn how to raise turkeys in your backyard.