If I was you I wouldn't worry about it, because I bet you did nothing illegal. One of the main ways hunters identify male and female turkeys is by finding a beard on the bird.

In Arkansas it is not illegal to shoot a hen....that is, if it is a bearded hen. We can take two "bearded turkeys." They made it that in the regs, instead of gobbler and jake, because of occurences of people mistaking a bearded hen, as a gobbler or jake.

A 7 in bearded hen at that. That was a good sized bearded hen. Congrats on the bird.

And as for all hens having beards...I think not. Some hens just have weird genes or abnormalities that cause them to grow the mostly, male feature, of beards.