I am bringing my camera home from work to attempt to get pics of this gorgeous black and mostly white wild hen turkey. She is a looker......sure odd to see one in the flock. She may be a dry hen because according to the farmer, she wanders his land with two mature gobblers that must be twins all day, never goes to nest. Pics as soon as I can get them this weekend. Would love to see if anyone has one on film. Al
I'd love to see the pics. I've only seen one in my life and it was during Spring. Gorgeous bird though.
Ive only ever seen hens that were a smokey gray color in the wild.
Yes, we had two on our hunt club in Wv a few years back. Only saw them once though.
I'd love to see a pic of her. Getting a smokey-gray phase gobbler is a dream of mine. . . sort of my white whale I guess, lol.
Call me Ahab.
Where I hunt, we've had two different hens that were half white. One was white on the back half and reddish colored on the front half. I saw her a few times, she lived at least three years I know of. But never any phase-colored toms at all.
I've never seen one. But, it would be pretty cool.
if she is black and mostly white she isn't albino. Albinism is absolute, they either are or aren't. She may be leucistic, and you may be surprised but she may be a domestic cross.
We were out in the middle of the sandhills of Neb a few years ago, miles from any farms. Found one white tom running around with a flock of birds. Talked to an NGPC popple cop we bumped into and he said he had been trying to cull that bird all season as it was an escaped domestic. Told us if we killed it we didn't need to tag it, we'd be doing the wild population a service and it was a domestic or domestic cross and they wanted it gone and not mixing with the breeding population.
Possibly one a long time ago. Glassing a power cut and saw a white bird in a group. May have been an escapee from a nearby farm though.
Have seen a few hens over the years that were predominately white. Had a close encounter with a smoke phase hen earlier this season. Had one white hen on a lease I used to be part of that we saw several times over the course of a 2-3 year timespan, both spring and fall. Always neat to see birds of any unique color phase.
This girl used to roam my land for 4 or so years.From 2012-2016,this is a picture of her about 5 feet outside my camp,I took picture sitting at my table having something to eat.
I have seen quite a few over the years. I will post a pic if I can find it.
Here is one. The first I ever saw I was videoing. In the spring they always seem to have gobs with them.
I have seen 2 in my lifetime and they were in the same flock.
Saw an albino jake years ago just down the road from the where I hunt, that was in the fall. A guy got him the next spring when he was a 2 year old.
Quote from: MISSISSIPPI Double beard on February 18, 2019, 06:19:14 PM
Here is one. The first I ever saw I was videoing. In the spring they always seem to have gobs with them.
And everyone thought the MAD Smokey hen decoy was a gimmick....
Have a Smokey around a couple years now but never see him during season, I think he hides out in that secret turkey cave ;)
MK M GOBL
Quote from: Gobble! on February 18, 2019, 08:03:32 PM
Quote from: MISSISSIPPI Double beard on February 18, 2019, 06:19:14 PM
Here is one. The first I ever saw I was videoing. In the spring they always seem to have gobs with them.
And everyone thought the MAD Smokey hen decoy was a gimmick....
Yes still think it was a gimmick.... No one that I know that used one, had it work. Are they still selling them?
Thanks for the pictures of the real Smokey's.
we had this smoky gray hen around for a few years, haven't seen her since a fox went after her, she flew up to a tree, I ended up busting her off roost when I went out too feed the deer.
I've seen a couple over the years (smoke phase). It's a cool experience, seeing something like that...
There are 2 in this flock. Eating my seed on foodplot.
Saw these two in TN.
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