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Determine Turkey Sex by droppings.

Old 03-24-2008, 06:53 PM
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Default Determine Turkey Sex by droppings.

I didn't know if anybody else new this, but you can determine the sex of birds, including turkeys, by there crap. Here's how.
Step 1- Find Crap
Step 2- Look at crap
Step 3- Locate white part of crap
Step 4- Determine if white part of crap is concentrated at end of turd(male), or scattered through out the turd(female)

That how you identify a bird's sex, by there crap, this may help you in your scoutings.
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Old 03-24-2008, 07:09 PM
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Take it this is scientific?
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Old 03-24-2008, 07:11 PM
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If stool is J shaped, it is a Tom!!
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Old 03-24-2008, 07:12 PM
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If stool is J shaped, it is a Tom!!
Thats what I have always heard, but I didn't know if it was true or not...
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Old 03-24-2008, 09:07 PM
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Its true. A hen's is collected in the cloaca and then deposited, so it comes out shaped sorta like a snail shell. A tom doesn't have a cloaca, so it comes out j-shaped. I learned that way back in my first semester of turkey school.
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Old 03-25-2008, 06:10 AM
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Turkey poop 101:

Gobbler's poop is shaped like a J

Hens look like a blob or a snail
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If stool is J shaped, it is a Tom!!

Yeah thats what i was always told. J-shaped is male, non-J-shaped is hen.
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Old 03-25-2008, 06:50 AM
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Interesting
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Old 03-25-2008, 08:57 AM
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i also thought that if it was curled, it was a jake/longbeard
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Old 03-25-2008, 10:57 AM
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tis true TOM (Jake & Tom) is a J shape.........scientifically stated above.......

Light green and soft - is not all that old - hard well has been layin there a while.....

BUT I WONDER

Does the top or bottom of the "J" piont the direction he went or does it leave him random like?

Guess I'll pay attention to the turkey foot prints a bit more now as I just thought up that question and I wanna know!

What ya think - I loose it?

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