Genetic defected turks!!!
 

Over my past few years turkey hunting I have seen two genetic deformed turks! my friend got a gobbler with no spurs!! i thought it was kinda werid!! and the last year i saw one with white bloches on one side of him!!! just wondering if any u guys seen any stuff like this, i know the most common defect is a hen with a beard, but i havent seen any of those, at least not yet!! well just wondering if anybody has seen any thing strange on turks!!!!! good hunting!!!<img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>

RE: Genetic defected turks!!!
 

I killed a really nice gobbler a few years back that had a 10 & 1/2 beard and no spurs. All he had was a small scale like where his spurs should have been. I thought it was kinda strange myself.

RE: Genetic defected turks!!!
 

I'VE NEVER SHOT ONE THAT DEFECTS BUT I HAVE SEEN PICS OF SOME THAT HAVE HAD NO SPURS, OR HENS WITH BEARDS

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RE: Genetic defected turks!!!
 

I've seen one hen with a 5&quot; beard.I seen a tom with only one tailfeather,but that happened after the shot.

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I seen a few Adult Toms here with out his hardware maybe thats where they came from NY! <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>...BT

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Maybe the white blotches indicate a mixed parentage of wild & domestic turkeys.

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We have had a few birds with 2 beards and one with 3 beards.

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Last year, my cousin killed a tom with a full fan, 1&quot; spurs, 19 # and only had a 3&quot; very full beard. My uncle said he killed one once that had over 1&quot; spurs and only had a nub for a beard. Uncle killed a few without spurs also. I also know a guy that killed a hen with a 8.5&quot; &quot;pencil&quot; beard.

RE: Genetic defected turks!!!
 

Over the years here we have taken a number of birds with no spurs or just one. One of the birds we took in Texas last year also only had one spur. About 3 or 4 years ago a friend took a bird that had one normal spur but the other leg had something(I hesitate to call it a spur) on it, right where the spur would normally be. This thing,was over two an a half inches long! It really didn't even look like a spur,kind of scally and rounded on the end. The other spur was normal and about three/quarters of an inch. I don't know if it had been injured at some time and this is what grew back or what,but man it sure looked wierd.