The chickens are about three weeks old now. We have lost two turkeys, however all of the chickens are healthy and happy. All of the literature I've read cautions against raising turkey's with chickens because chickens are carriers of diseases that are more harmful to turkeys. Our friends have raised the two together and suggested that the turkeys would be useful for fighting off snakes and weasels when the flock was older. I wonder if we had medicated our turkey's if they would have survived. We really wanted them to be organic, but now they are just dead. Oh well, "so goes the livestock business", Papa Steve said during his postmortem consult.
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