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Old 08-03-2007 | 06:14 AM
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don't the beards get shorter on the older birds, ie: 6yrs. and older ? i know the one Tom had like a 10 inch beard, by the time he was 8 yrs.it was a 3-4 inch nub, his spurs got smaller as well to think of it ....is that the norm ? well, it cant be because flhuntress killed that 8 inch beard with 1.5 inch spurs...he was an older bird, dont know how old though, maybe it just the beards....do y'all know ? seems like they get uglier heads as time goes, not that a gobbler could ever be ugly, i put that there for the lack of better words, lol..
LMAO huntnma, well for us humans, as we get older, hair changes color and falls out. We get shorter with time. Things get more brittle and may break easier or break off. Who's to say your bird in question couldn't be suffer from the old age syndrome. LOL
well thats what i was trying to find out, lol.....but then arrowmaster wrote"There are only a couple factors that will shorten a mature gobblers beard. One is beard rot, and the other is if it gets froven over winter and breaks off."

my point i was trying to make was maybe when you see that lil beard and a big ol body, it's not a jake, just an old bird.....but then you go and laugh at me, must go cry now, lol......

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