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Thought maybe you guys/gals would like to see a picture of a piebald JAKE that lives in my home area. Hopefully he stay headed in the same direction for awhile, that my favorite fall turkey hunting hill way off in the distance. Pretty unique bird..he'll make a nice mount..

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looky there..........i have never seen noe lookinglike that, thanks for sharing.

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There's a few of those wondering in my neck of the woods , I was after one one of them this last spring but never got a good shot at him.

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Very nice pic...thanks for sharing!

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He will be a unique wall hanger some day.

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That's pretty cool - thanks!

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Thats a very nice looking bird. Great pics...

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nice pic. looks like you have a challenge ahead of you. good luck

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Thanks for sharing, that's cool.

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Cool pic !!!!

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

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

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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 ..

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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..

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

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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.

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Hello to all... I'm a Newbie. This piebald sure looks like a hen to me. Please keep us posted. It looks NEAT!

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now thats a good pic, i have only seen one of those.

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Well after growing up visiting my aunts turkey farm regulary. I would say that bird is a farm escapey. Look at the body type. It's bulky and yellow legged. And the colors almost look like the Broad Breasted Bronze turkeys my aunt raised. I would say thats a hen meat breed turkey. There are alot of farm escapey birds around and they always look soo different when seen in a flock of all wilds.
Cool Find none the less!
:)

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yeah I have to agree w/sampahunter. We raised these turkeys for years on our farm. They're called Narragansett Turkeys. Also, most tame turkeys don't have much or any of a beard which would answer the above discussion.

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Turkeys/BRKJiylda.html

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Gentlemen, thereare no tame turkeys or farms anywhere near where this bird was found-I've never seen one within 10miles in any direction....I'll answer the question about the first week of NOV...let him come strolling past me and I'll take care of it once and for all....I heard him gobble, I have friends who saw him in strut - I personally did not...his legs seem pinkish to me and his little beard was jet black and as thin as a pencil about 1-3 inches protruding... We'll see..I haven't seen him since this picture was taken, don't think he got plugged because I would have heard about it...I've been taking ridses in the morning and evening but just can spy him...I'll get another picture hopefully..by the way he was with about 15 other turkey that morning..about 8 hens, 6 other jakes, and two or three adult toms.. he was just off by himself..I killed an albino deer that was also shunned by the deer herd with a bow..don't know if the other animal fear them or are afraid that a predator could find them, hopefully a coyote, bear, bobcat or fisher didn't find this guy, he couldn't hide this time of year...

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LOL just think about the bird being a farm escapey;)Im still saying thats what it is. I know you say there arent many or any farms around but a bird will travel far if it is alone. And also another characteristic that makes me think it's domestic is the short fan. And also the body type. Wild turkeys and I know you know this are always small bodied and even the hens have longer fans than that. Sorry but I still say esapey.
:)

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yeah we once had a wild bird get in w/our Narragansetts and the offspring looked almost identical to our tame birds other than a little more green in the feathers of the offspring. Still had the white bands throughout and the powdered look though.I've never seen a piebald turkey so I'm not saying that it isn't one. But I have seen thousands upon thousands of tame turkeys and all I'm saying is 'consider' it. Nonetheless its a cool find. I know you talked about killing him this fall but I'd think about leaving him in the flock. You might end up w/a whole lot of those running around which would be cool.