I've seen this done in many tutorial videos, but I'd like to know if this makes a difference. Should I put each species of poultry (chickens, turkeys, geese, etc) into separate pens, or does one large pen for all of them suffice?
Should I separate the poultry into separate pens
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Best Answer
The only benefit to doing that that I can think of is so that you can control how many nest boxes each species has access to, thus ensuring that your poultry populations remain roughly balanced. If you put all of your birds in one pen, there's a chance that one species could hoard all the nest boxes, which might eventually cause the other poultry species to die off (but you'd wind up with a whole lot of the species that hoarded the nest boxes).