[HesterF]

I had a grand plan of housing for next season that has just been blown by not being able to move the current goose shed. It all gets too boring to explain but I'm now wondering whether I can buy a new shed that could be used first by a pair of goose during their breeding season and then for a few Xmas turkey growers. I'm guessing I can recombine geese from breeding pairs into a single flock by late June/early July - would this be a good time to be getting turkey growers in?

I gather geese don't carry blackhead so from that perspective, using the same shed should be OK.

[shygirl]

are the turkeys and geese to actually share the shed? if so i would expect the geese to aggressive to the juvenile turkeys.... unless there was a reliable perch.

[HesterF]

No, I've two ganders which are fine together out of breeding season (i.e. now) but I'll need to seperate them in breeding season. So the proposed plan would be to use the new shed for one of the goose pairs from Feb until June anthen put all the geese back in together and then buy young turkeys. I was just hoping it wouldn't be too late in the season to get hold of turkeys at end June/beg July and that they'd be big enough for Xmas if I can.

Next concern is about dispatching turkeys - I gather they should now be stunned before dispatch so that's nagging at me a bit too. I'll come back to that later though!

[shygirl]

we bought our hybrids in the first week of sept - 6 weeks old.