Albino toms?
 

Anybody ever got one? I saw one the other day on my way out shed hunting - lives off a major interstate, so I'm sure about 300,000 other guys know about him too. Either way, I've got the location logged in the old databank upstairs. LOL

Looked a lot like this young lady, but I'm 99% sure it was a male. I couldn't get the binos on him b/c if I tried to pull off, I'd have been killed by a semi- for sure. LOL

RE: Albino toms?
 

Not a true Albino but is a piebald turkey and yes I'd shoot him!

Legs are black int he photo and black/gray shading on feathers.

JW

RE: Albino toms?
 

Looks like a wild turkey tame turkey cross breed... Wouldn't doubt it... Seems like more people are shooting tame turkeys that they think are wild every spring...

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RE: Albino toms?
 

I have heard rumor that the white strand of turkey have migrated from Canada. I am not 100% sure on this but, a field I use to hunt had 5 or 6 different white birds in it. I asked the owner of the property and that is the story I got.

I would most definetely shoot one!!!!

RE: Albino toms?
 

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Thanks for the chuckle. But in the mid 1980's Ontario and the rest of Canada was listed has having no wild turkeys. Ontario traded some different spieces of wild animals to get some wild turkeys to try and bring them back to their natural habitat in Ontario. It was a sucess.

Actually there is a known fact that wild turkeys do sometimes come "PIE-BLAD", or a white strain, just like you can get moose, deer ect the same way. It is not necessary that it was crossed with a domestic bird to get that way.

RE: Albino toms?
 

A friend of mine got one about two years ago and had it displayed at Cabela's in Dundee Mi. for awhile.
I keep asking for pictures of it so I can post them in here but he kepts forgetting to send them to me , I'll have to make sure to have my digital camera with me next time I go over there.

RE: Albino toms?
 

Well Dang Uncle Tom.... LMAO:D Now I have to go and tell that feller he is full of it............ Hey? Can ya tell I am new to Turkey Hunting? LMAO

I have seen plenty of white pigeons.... Ya think they come from Canada?[:-]

RE: Albino toms?
 

Funny funny...... I seen one last weekend!! and heard of one in a different area. I was wondering if they were leagal to shoot, and just what the heck they are!!

Canada eehh!
LOL

RE: Albino toms?
 

No way eh! It's the Great White North not the Great White Turkey!

Just a colour phase of feathers found in wild birds sometimes. Last year I think there was an article on this in T&TH by Lovett Willimas. Basically said it's not that big of a deal, it is just not common but they are the same wild bird.

You would see more if the obvious lack of concealment didn't expose them to predators so much.

RE: Albino toms?
 

I've got a white hen in the flock where I hunt. She looks like the photo. We have no "either-sex" season, here......so she can never be legally harvested.

RE: Albino toms?
 

For more information do a search on the site for a number of posts like this one

That picture isn't an albino turkey, which would be completely white with pink feet and pink eyes.

It appears to be the white color phase, a recessive genetic trait/mutation some refer to as the smoke phase or piebald. Lovett Williams has described this in detail elsewhere.

Here is a nice description I found on a Mississippiwildlife website:



Color Phases

The wild turkey has three distinct color
variations from normal plumage coloration:
melanistic (black), erythritic (red) and albinotic
(white). These color variations occur infrequently
with the white or smoky grey phase being the
most common. Recessive genes or mutations
account for the color abnormalities. Partially
white turkeys are reported annually in
Mississippi. Most people incorrectly assume
these birds have a domestic strain in their
ancestry. These smoke gray phase birds are
native wild turkeys and are capable of producing
offspring that are partially white, normal colored, or a mix of partially white and normal colored birds within the same brood. More
95% of the reported observations of white turkeys are hens

RE: Albino toms?
 

i have got two hens that i have been watching here in mississippi. they aren't tame birds. i have been seeing them for three years now. no toms yet but hoping one day for a white tom