Yesterday morning I was hunting and the turkeys were the most vocal I've heard them be all year. It was great! Usually I only hear gobbling, and many mornings I don't even hear that. Yesterday was different. Started off normal with 2-3 gobblers firing up here and there. A couple were gobbling after fly down so I started calling. A hen fired up cutting and yelping about 100 yards behind me so I threw it back at her. After we we were cutting and yelping back and forth several more hens joined in. The one close to me came on in and I let her pass in front of me about 15 yards away and when she went out of site I started back up again. She went nuts, but this time she circled behind me, fussing all the way. She got close enough that I could hear her purr and cluck softly but never saw her. She'd move off and I call her back. One time I heard something like a muffled gobble came from her direction. I thought it was a gobbler way off behind her. It happened a couple more times and I could tell it was close and came from her direction each time. The gobbles were not that short, but they were weak compared to a male gobbler. Anyway, I looked it up and some hens can gobble. I got tired of messing with her after a while but was so excited to hear a hen gobble that I had to tell it. Any of you heard a hen gobble?
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I have heard domestic hens gobble.
That's pretty cool, love experiencing new things in the woods.
Can't necessarily say I've heard one gobble, but i have had them make unusual sounds. I've had them come hangout most of the morning with me as I'm trying to call a gobbler. I've also had a hen coming from a different direction taking other hens away in a different direction that were very vocal... Pretty neat what you see with turkeys as your calling to them..
I've heard them gobble and seen them strut on several occasions. Hens in Kansas apparently drink Bud Light often.
I had a hen gobble and semi strut in front of me last season. Really made my hunting day successful!
I ran into one like this in the same spot for 3 years in row.
I witnessed a hen do this last spring 80 yds away in a clear cut. She would throw a 1/4 gobble at the end of her yelp sequence.
I've heard hens gobble a few different times through the years.
I've never heard a hen gobble ( at least that I know of). But I've seen videos of it. All I can think of is "great, as if hens haven't messed with me enough over the years"!! ????
Cool I didn't know they did that. I think I may have heard a hen gobble the other morning now. I got set up on the edge of a cutover and select cut pines while listening to a hen do some soft tree talk. She yelped for a handful of times softly and then I heard this soft muted gobble sound. I knew I heard something but wasn't sure what it was. I thought it may have been a Jake but now it seems more likely it may have just been that hen. I ended up seeing a hen but never saw anything else.
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I have watched two hens at different times gobble.
A guy showed me a video this spring he took on youth day in VA of a hen strutting. He said she strutted for over an hour. Full fan up, wing tips down. Full on strut, it was a cool couple minutes of video.
I have shot 2 strutting bearded gobbling hens. Once from a recliner chair inside a trailer that was abandoned with the front window gone. The other was last day near noon at a spot I had checked a dozen times that season. There was a Tom there too, but I couldn't believe what I was seeing and had to. She had white spurs.
I raise easterns and have seen quite a bit of strutting and even spit drumming from hens. Have not heard a pen hen gobble though.
There was a hen with another hen and poults that would gobble at me when I would encounter then on my road a few times. It was really cool.
I would also like to add that I have seen a hen strut and beat the crap out of a hen decoy. I have yet to see a bearded hen.
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That's awesome, they always seem to find a way to entertain.
Yes. I heard a hen gobble 2 times and she also strutted and drummed. Aggressive behavior.
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Quote from: HookedonHooks on May 08, 2023, 10:33:10 AM
I've heard them gobble and seen them strut on several occasions. Hens in Kansas apparently drink Bud Light often.
Niceee!!! Quote of the day, as far as I'm concerned.
Watched a Gould's hen gobble one time. I have it on Hi-8 video tape around here somewhere.
Yep saw a hen strut and gobble on the limb a few years ago. Was a very light and soft gobble but a gobble none the less. They was a nice sized flock with adult gobblers and Jake's gobbling as well. Awesome to see.
I've seen them strut, never gooble. There are mocking birds and parrots so we know birds are fully capable of imitating, pretty cool.