Jakes, Hens or Toms???

mpcw34 · 03-20-2011, 01:05 PM

My hunting buddy and I just got back from our new lease here in NC and brought a few pics back from one of our cameras we set up near a feeder.

Can anyone help to figure out if we're looking at hens, jakes or toms in these pictures????

Thanks, in advance!!!

JW · 03-20-2011, 03:14 PM

The two darker morning pictures are hens.

The picture with the Red heads and the birds are walking away from the camera are Toms - Now whether they are a Jake or Tom is hard to tell but I can see spurs.

I tried to photo shop and enlarge to get a closer look to no avail! But they are Toms.

JW

RockyMtnGobblers · 03-21-2011, 07:14 AM

Hard to tell but I think they are all Toms or jakes as I cant see beards but all the heads are red with white closer to the forehead, they don't look like the gray hen head to me, who knows with more light they may be chickens! LOL

Also clearly the lighter pic. shows toms or jakes if you look at the dates, times and number of turkeys I think they are pics of the same two birds.

doetrain · 03-21-2011, 10:54 AM

They look like Jakes to me at least the two in the 3rd picture.