What’s the chance of toms coexisting?

[Pearlescent]

I am hoping to buy a new Tom for breeding season and rehome the current one, as he didn’t produce the desired color. However, getting a new Tom could be a problem because of my precious little man who broke his leg. Him and the current Tom (his father) strut together, working together to impress the hens. But I fear a new tom would see him as a threat. Yes, I could rehome the little man aswell, but due to his injury (a few months ago) there is a risk of rebreaking the leg, which healed a bit odd looking.

Ideally I’d keep him aswell as getting a new Tom, but would that be safe for him? He has no interest in dominance (as of right now) but he could still be seen as competition by a new male. I would just keep him as my breeding Tom, if the hens weren’t his mother and sister, but I’d like to avoid inbreeding.

 

[R2elk]

I would just keep him as my breeding Tom, if the hens weren’t his mother and sister, but I’d like to avoid inbreeding.

Breeding an offspring back to the parent is line breeding and is a long used method. Breeding siblings to each other is inbreeding and is to be avoided.

Inbreeding and Linebreeding

 

[R2elk]

due to his injury (a few months ago) there is a risk of rebreaking the leg, which healed a bit odd looking.

Good strong legs are a requirement for a tom being used for breeding. If he has a messed up leg, he is likely to hurt any hens he tries to breed.

 

[kvanlerberghe]

I had 2 Tom's and 2 Hens. They coexisted just fine. I'm not sure if it was because they were raised from chick's together or because they were cool about it.
They were good watch dogs though!

 

[Pearlescent]

Good strong legs are a requirement for a tom being used for breeding. If he has a messed up leg, he is likely to hurt any hens he tries to breed.

The leg isn’t damaged in a way that affects him, it just has a little bump.

 

[BirdNerd18053]

I am hoping to buy a new Tom for breeding season and rehome the current one, as he didn’t produce the desired color. However, getting a new Tom could be a problem because of my precious little man who broke his leg. Him and the current Tom (his father) strut together, working together to impress the hens. But I fear a new tom would see him as a threat. Yes, I could rehome the little man aswell, but due to his injury (a few months ago) there is a risk of rebreaking the leg, which healed a bit odd looking.

Ideally I’d keep him aswell as getting a new Tom, but would that be safe for him? He has no interest in dominance (as of right now) but he could still be seen as competition by a new male. I would just keep him as my breeding Tom, if the hens weren’t his mother and sister, but I’d like to avoid inbreeding.

First off, beautiful boys. I can only speak to my toms broken leg not to if it would impair him with a new tom. We are not sure how it happened but didn't want to cull him so we tried our best set his leg. After setting he was kept in a crate to let it heal. Well, it healed but from laying on it his foot is sideways and curled kind of upside down. This happened early this year. He has been doing fine. He chases our Rottweiler and jumps at him just fine. He has no issues with the leg other than a little swagger. He still puffs up and struts all day long. I would keep your little guy and see how it goes.

 

[PatriciafromCO]

Its hit and miss if the new adult turkey will be aggressive to your current tom, is there anyway you can have seperate areas for your family tom? Our "Toe" was a family turkey with us for 17 years. Always kept a buddy Tom for Toe that was raised with him from a baby, he went through 3 buddy turkeys in his life span. Butcher all the turkeys each year raised from babies, Toe always got along with the raised babies when they grew up into adult birds. We never brought in any adult toms. Having the males and females together of any breed changes dynamics. If you could seperate the breeding flock from your family pets and choose a nice buddy Tom to hang out with hell be happy.