Jake or Midget Tom?

[tomstopper]

You shot the Ellen of the turkey world...   

[stinkpickle]

You shot the Ellen of the turkey world...   

More like an the unshaven Rosie.     That's a helluva hen, though.  I'd probably have to do a double-take if I saw that beard swingin'.

[TxLongspur]

Nice hen !

[rem 300]

Yep, Nice bearded hen

[mudhen]

'Stud' of a bearded hen!

Call her Rosie maybe??

mudhen

[Spring_Woods]

I have heard hens try to gobble.

I believe what you have there is a bearded hen. Congrats!

[COssman14]

Looks like a bearded hen.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[THattaway]

That's a bearded hen for sure. Since noone has mentioned it and it seems you don't already know....
A hen has breast feathers with brownish tips. Toms have black tips.

To throw a bigger kink in things...
I have video footage of a bearded hen with gobbler plummage that I saw a few years back. Lovett Williams confirmed this when I posted it here.

[Bigspurs68]

Yea ol buddy, it's a hen. It could have been the bird that gobbled too. I have heard a couple hens that actually gobbled pretty good.

[WiLL B]

Yep you got a bearded hen. She has a good beard for a hen but that is what it is.

[jblackburn]

It's a hen.  Hen's will gobble, but usually nothing like a tom or even a jake. Plus, the body feathers are brown tipped.  Gobblers are black tipped.

Nonetheless, congrats!

[jblackburn]

What part of the country? Swamp nearby? It seems a little dark. Might've been a mossy-headed gobbler.

Ok, I don't want to start anything, but mossy heads are about as common as Sasquatch!  I know people that swear up and down they exist. Maybe they did exist . . .  But really?

I think mossy heads are more likely example of what we see here.  An over zealous bearded hen!  Heck, some of them may even be hermaphrodites for all we know

[troutfisher13111]

What is a mossy head?

[jblackburn]

What is a mossy head?

The legendary small sized, hairy headed turkey that may or may not exist.

Here's a description

http://oldgobbler.com/Forum/index.php?topic=8981.0

[troutfisher13111]

Thanks! Sounds freaky