RE: PIEBALD GOBBLER 07
 

Wait a minute, that's got to be a hen, I don't see any spurs or a beard.

RE: PIEBALD GOBBLER 07
 

thats what i was thinking i know jakes only have nubs but i dont see them.

RE: PIEBALD GOBBLER 07
 

Well he gobbled and he has been seen in full strut, not by me but by a friend...he's got alot of black on those upper winds and middle of his back and he did have a little 1-2 incher sticking out ..

RE: PIEBALD GOBBLER 07
 

I've heard on these forums members say that they've seen hens in full strut.

But what about a beard? In most states, you're only allowed to shoot bearded turkeys.

RE: PIEBALD GOBBLER 07
 

Great pic's Frank, thanks for sharing!!;)

RE: PIEBALD GOBBLER 07
 

Looking at the head, I could almost swear that looks like a hen, it doesn't have the triangular "forehead" gobblers have. The head of that thing looks so much like the head of our hen decoys.

RE: PIEBALD GOBBLER 07
 

Nice pic, thanks for sharing. I agree, could be a hen...regardless, pretty bird.

RE: PIEBALD GOBBLER 07
 

His neck feathers end in the appropriate area of the neck for a gobbler..about where the wattles are..hens have them much further up the neck and lots of hairs right up to top of the skull, he has none of that..if you look very very close you can actually see the very end of his really short beard..HE does not have much of a spur however, could be that he was a late hatch from the previous summer and is not all that old..I don't know...hopefully I'll catch up to him next fall and we'll see up close what he looks like....check back in November..

RE: PIEBALD GOBBLER 07
 

Cool lookin' turkey! Keep us updated on him please.

RE: PIEBALD GOBBLER 07
 

I dunno', see if you can get some better pictures sometime this summer, and post them again, and then we'll be able to see if it has a beard, even so, it might be a bearded hen with a very small beard.

I looked and didn't see his beard, maybe you saw something that's something in the road, like a rock of gray color.