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Author Topic: Is this a gobbler turd?  (Read 1768 times)

Offline The Lung

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Is this a gobbler turd?
« on: April 12, 2022, 01:11:36 AM »
I have more time than usual to scout preseason and I've never actually looked much for droppings. Do y'all think this is a gobbler turd?
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Is this a gobbler turd?
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2022, 06:49:37 AM »
No. Hard to say what it is without knowing scale but it ain’t a turkey. Birds, and especially turkeys, pretty much always going to have a white cap or at least some white in it as a result of urine.

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Re: Is this a gobbler turd?
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2022, 10:46:15 AM »
Looks like racoons scat to me.
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Re: Is this a gobbler turd?
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2022, 02:08:11 PM »
I had seen where gobbler poop is supposed to be J shaped, so I was hopeful.
Thanks for the responses.
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Re: Is this a gobbler turd?
« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2022, 02:42:56 PM »
Surprisingly that whole J shaped difference is absolutely true and has to do with sexual organs located near the cloaca on the male birds. Either sex, though, it’s usually going to be green or greenish brown and it’s almost always going to have white on one end.




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Re: Is this a gobbler turd?
« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2022, 04:41:13 PM »
You have to taste it to be certain.
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Re: Is this a gobbler turd?
« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2022, 07:53:12 PM »
You have to taste it to be certain.

Tastes like chicken!
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Re: Is this a gobbler turd?
« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2022, 09:46:01 AM »
Surprisingly that whole J shaped difference is absolutely true and has to do with sexual organs located near the cloaca on the male birds. Either sex, though, it’s usually going to be green or greenish brown and it’s almost always going to have white on one end.




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Well said, - and if you are finding A LOT of those J droppings where you are at - make sure you hunt that area regularly. If birds are frequenting logging roads, ridges or fields enough to leave a bunch of J-droppings, you can bet that is the area to hunt.
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