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Title: New sheriff in town
Post by: kennym on March 24, 2019, 06:48:32 PM
Son took some pics from my truck near the lease. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190324/0a6ef165b0b2e3de94cc2b9968df57be.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190324/64f5359ca4396039ed8c765c95c663c7.jpg)


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Title: Re: New sheriff in town
Post by: Bvas on March 24, 2019, 06:57:41 PM
Sweet!!!
He'll look like a giant snowball when he's struttin :biglaugh:
Title: Re: New sheriff in town
Post by: Ray Lyon on March 24, 2019, 07:03:21 PM
Are albino turkeys protected???
Title: Re: New sheriff in town
Post by: Charlie Lamb on March 24, 2019, 10:06:16 PM
Hmmm... what's that Bob Marley tune about sheriffs?
Title: Re: New sheriff in town
Post by: Holm-Made on March 24, 2019, 10:18:15 PM
Kinda weird that his beard is black.
Title: Re: New sheriff in town
Post by: arrow30 on March 24, 2019, 10:19:21 PM
BONUS!
Title: Re: New sheriff in town
Post by: Huntrdfk on March 25, 2019, 06:26:41 AM
I feel vindicated Kenny!!! I thought I was seeing things when I saw him last year. Glad someone got a photo of him, and that he made it through the winter!

David
Title: Re: New sheriff in town
Post by: Roy from Pa on March 25, 2019, 06:32:30 AM
That's wild.
Title: Re: New sheriff in town
Post by: TIM B on March 25, 2019, 06:35:51 AM
The spirit turkey.....
Tim B
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Post by: Bisch on March 25, 2019, 08:24:42 AM
That is really cool!!!!

Bisch
Title: Re: New sheriff in town
Post by: Trenton G. on March 25, 2019, 08:36:06 AM
That's awesome! You might need to paint some of your decoys white in order to get him to come in.
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Post by: Sam McMichael on March 25, 2019, 09:53:54 AM
Is that an albino, or is it a domestic turkey that got loose and reverted to the wild? Whichever it is, it is very cool.
Title: Re: New sheriff in town
Post by: Wheels2 on March 25, 2019, 11:19:49 AM
Doesn't have the much bigger breast of a domestic turkey.

The black beard is interesting.  Grecian Formula?
Title: Re: New sheriff in town
Post by: Aaron Proffitt 2 on March 25, 2019, 11:32:43 AM
Cool ! Not sure where in Missouri that was taken , but I know in the early 90's on a ranch between Mansfield and Ava , there were several flocks that either were mostly white or piebald . None were albino. But their behavior was the exact same as the traditionally dark Eastern birds. Never did a get a shot at one.
Title: Re: New sheriff in town
Post by: TradBrewSC on March 25, 2019, 11:54:39 AM
Thats awesome! I am no biologist, but would imagine the beard would remain dark regardless of the pigmentation anomaly. It isn't like a humans beard and grows much like a toenail from what I understand..

I have seen a few hens that were "piebald" but nothing like that! very cool and thank you for sharing! That is no farm bird for the skeptics!

Season is in for us in SC and they are giving me a fit.. Basically they open the season too early in the upper part of the state (which was passed to change next year), and they are henned up. They gobble on the roost and shut up on the ground, then stay in the thick pines throughout the morning with no pattern just courting hens.
 
Title: Re: New sheriff in town
Post by: Possum Head on March 25, 2019, 12:23:30 PM
Hope you kill him. That's awesome!
Title: Re: New sheriff in town
Post by: Wudstix on March 25, 2019, 12:56:27 PM
Full body mount would be mandated!!!   :coffee: :thumbsup: :archer2: :campfire:
Title: Re: New sheriff in town
Post by: kennym on March 25, 2019, 01:09:57 PM
I saw another one several years ago 25 miles north, also had a black beard. Must be standard equipment. I'm very sure this is a wild one , and I emailed the MDC to see if they are legal, if I ever call him in I'll decide then if I'll shoot.

We have had the smoky birds also , all hens that I've seen, and I have seen an albino hen once a long time back.
Title: Re: New sheriff in town
Post by: Friend on March 25, 2019, 01:30:30 PM
A rarity....thank you shaing
Title: Re: New sheriff in town
Post by: Terry Green on March 26, 2019, 10:45:22 AM
Cool!!!...like that doe I posted a couple weeks back.
Title: Re: New sheriff in town
Post by: kennym on March 28, 2019, 08:50:19 PM
MDC says albino turkey are legal in both spring and fall seasons . I'd have to decide when he showed up tho.
Title: Re: New sheriff in town
Post by: Charlie Lamb on March 28, 2019, 09:08:36 PM
Back in the 70's MDC swore there were no albino or white turkeys. Guess they can be wrong.
Title: Re: New sheriff in town
Post by: kennym on March 28, 2019, 11:23:30 PM
I couldn't find it anywhere on their site so I emailed them and got

There wasn't any lions for a long time either ... lol
Title: Re: New sheriff in town
Post by: Cyclic-Rivers on March 29, 2019, 02:27:30 PM
That's cool Kenny. My lil bro had 4 all white Jake's in a flock behind his house last year.  They all had short all black bristly tufts on their chest. 

I will shoot one given the opportunity. Feathers are easier to dye and  they look the same when going in the oven after you take their clothes off.
Title: Re: New sheriff in town
Post by: Cyclic-Rivers on March 29, 2019, 02:30:25 PM
As far as the mountain lion debate, they did the same in NY too. Claimed they were all Bob cats even disputed trail camera photos at first.  Then when they couldn't uphold that lie any longer due to substantial evidence, their new story was " young male from the Dakotas" looking for love. 

Not sure about cats but I know teenage boys go to the females, not 2,000 miles away from them. 

Not sure what story they came out with after a female was hit and killed by a car.