Jake,

      Congradulations,on a very unique Bird!

Congrats Jacob,very enjoyable videos and story.

Very cool trophy! Thanks for the pics and story.      

Awesome, Jake, congratulations!  

Good stuff.

Congrats Jake!! Great bird!

Jake,

That's great.  Looks like a great place!  Good hunting   :D

Jake...SWEET!!!

Awesome job. I love the blond beard, I've never seen one like that.

Way to Go..

         

Nice shooting Jake!  

Awesome job Jake!

Awesome, thanks for sharing!  

Congrats!

The blonde beard is a melanin deficiency in the beard during that stage of the growing period of the bird.  Usually caused by some sort of stressfull time in a turkeys life...disease,etc...

The lack of melanin makes the beard brittle, which causes them to sometimes break, hence the shortness of the beard on a mature bird.

Very cool bird Jake!

Curt

Thanks for the science behind the beard, very interesting.

I didn't notice any other signs of trauma like scares, etc, but early one he could have fought a disease or something like that.  All in all a very healthy looking bird otherwise inside and out.

Cool bird    Congrats and great picks    

Tracy

Great story and pictures and the video is awesome.  Congrats on a special bird.

nice work great photos thanks for sharing