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Old 10-20-2003 | 10:56 PM
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I Bought me one of tho' s nice fold up dog house blinds,and i used it the day i got it and got me a turkey that day.
I saw 3 groups of jakes and 2 groups of hens. One of witch groups i shot a turkey.
There was 4 hens and this one in the middle had a beard! Dont get me wrong some hens have beards. So I shot at it and killed it then it did its crappie flop.
I picked it up and it had a 7 inch beard, No Spurs,A Fan Like a tom,With out the 2-3 tall feathers these feathers were all even.
So Iduno What the sex is of this turkey,

No spurs
7 inch beard
Even Fan,Not a jake fan
Im thinking a hen with a beard.... Iduno. lol
But its dead now w/e it was [X(]
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Old 10-21-2003 | 07:31 AM
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Sounds like a bearded hen to me.An easy way to tell is do the feathers run clean up to the base of the head on the back of the neck,If they do it' s a hen.I f they stop short of the base of the skull it' s a gobbler.Either way,Congrats
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Old 10-21-2003 | 05:12 PM
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Did it strut at all? Was the head a red-ish color? Or a Blue-ish color?
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Old 10-23-2003 | 09:48 PM
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Maybe it was a hermaphrodite.
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Old 10-26-2003 | 12:30 PM
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MOTURKEYTAMER saw some hens with beards as he described on his forum, thats probably what it was
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Old 10-30-2003 | 11:02 AM
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Maybe it was a hermaphrodite.
That would have been my guess too lol
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