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Started by alloutdoors, May 22, 2014, 03:21:31 PM
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Longbeard
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May 22, 2014, 03:21:31 PM
I was cleaning my turkey from this morning and noticed he had a couple odd feathers in his fan. The two central tail feathers have banding at the base that looks like a wing feather. Pretty sure I've never seen that before.
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May 22, 2014, 03:36:34 PM
dont know how common I think I have around 50 fans here and present on prob half of them, sometimes it goes all the way up to the top or near the top of the fan tip, I don't think I have ever read where anyone could say exactly why some are like that, pretty cool though.
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May 22, 2014, 03:42:19 PM
I've killed several like that. I know at least two of the six I got this year was that way. I got a buddy who calls it "wild feathers"
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May 22, 2014, 03:45:18 PM
Interesting, wonder if it's more prevalent in certain populations. I don't think I've ever shot one like that before.
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May 22, 2014, 03:50:40 PM
I've killed a few like that here in SC and a few that extended with the white/black banding up into the tips, visible as they came in. Oddities like that and other variations on turkeys are fascinating to me. Always interested in seeing those things. Never seemed to have killed two that were exactly the same.
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Longbeard
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May 22, 2014, 03:59:48 PM
Yeah, the thing I see from time to time here is birds with a couple solid black primaries.
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May 22, 2014, 04:17:09 PM
I've seen birds with the white coloration in the middle tail feathers in my area of NY. Your Schoharie birds may be different...
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May 22, 2014, 04:32:37 PM
Could be. This one is actually from Otsego county. I notice differences between those birds though and the ones I grew up hunting in Schoharie, and it's only a 40 minute drive between the two areas. For example, bearded hens are way more common where I hunt in Otsego.
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May 22, 2014, 05:15:31 PM
shot one in wv that had some white in the tail feathers about in the middle of it
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May 22, 2014, 05:39:56 PM
have killed a few that way
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May 22, 2014, 07:20:27 PM
Pretty common for me, maybe 1 in 15 have a funny tail feather or two?...
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May 22, 2014, 07:22:30 PM
pretty common
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May 22, 2014, 11:20:53 PM
I with John, probably half the birds ive killed have tail feathers like this. Still kinda neat though
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May 22, 2014, 11:33:05 PM
I've killed a couple like that in PA. I mentioned this before when the topic has been brought up...... A old timer told me once that that means its a old bird. I have no idea how true that is.
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May 23, 2014, 06:46:16 PM
Wow. I didn't know that this was that common....
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