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Old 12-27-2007 | 03:03 PM
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Pretty cool pic I took muzzleloader hunting the other day.

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Old 12-27-2007 | 04:13 PM
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He's somewhat camod up!!! That would be a dead bird walking around here!
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Old 12-27-2007 | 04:25 PM
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Very cool! I've seen pix of what's called a silver phase turkey.

Last spring there was a tom with a mostly white fan. The ends of the tail feathers had the black band and were tipped buff/light tan. It was really interesting looking. Before we could find him again with a camera, he got shot.
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Old 12-27-2007 | 05:32 PM
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That is called smoke gray phase...........pretty cool, we have a few hens in that color phase around here.
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Old 12-27-2007 | 06:38 PM
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Cool pic...
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Old 12-27-2007 | 07:45 PM
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We have a hen running around our property like that. We raise turkeys like that called Narragansett.

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Old 01-01-2008 | 09:07 PM
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nice looking bird
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Old 01-02-2008 | 02:31 PM
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ORIGINAL: nick_bleuer76

We have a hen running around our property like that. We raise turkeys like that called Narragansett.


Pretty much what I was thinking... A demesticated turkey getting loose and running with wild birds... Pretty much the norm these days
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Old 01-02-2008 | 07:23 PM
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There is an actual color phase of wild turkey called smoke grey phase, it is not a domestic bird it is caused by a lack of melanin pigmentation ..........I know for fact that the birds in my area are wild smoke grey phase because there are no domesticated turkeys for at least 50 miles that would have those color markings. Whether or not the bird in that pic is domesticated it is pretty much accepted by wildlife biologists that wild and domesticated birds will not tolerate each other and it is unlikely that a domestic bird would go feral and join a truly wild flock.
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Old 01-04-2008 | 01:10 PM
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I've never seen anything but normal Wild color phase in the big woods that I hunt...

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I have no green field, were I hunt... Were large numbers of turkeys can be viewded
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