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Albino turkey #7536474
03/23/22 02:25 PM
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There is a cow pasture near me that nearly always has wild turkeys feeding in it. Yesterday there were about 20, with maybe five toms. Right in the middle was a white hen. First wild albino turkey I have ever seen. I doubt it was a domestic turkey as the pasture is surrounded by housing neighborhoods and no farms.

Wish I had stopped for a photo. She was only about 30 yards away and there would have been other birds in the picture.

Anybody seen one before?

Re: Albino turkey [Re: charles] #7536480
03/23/22 02:28 PM
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Nope never seen a wild albino turkey.


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Re: Albino turkey [Re: charles] #7536482
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Have a local hen that has many extra white feathers but not an albino and not pure white, just many additional white feathers. She sticks out from the others that is for sure.

Re: Albino turkey [Re: charles] #7536495
03/23/22 02:40 PM
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I've seen quite a few around here in at least three different flocks .
Weather a domestic bird joined the flock , I don't know .
As a kid I remember the neighbors had domestic white turkeys that would wander all over the place .
Wouldn't see them for a week and they would show up again .
Where they went I have no idea except they liked the woods .

My guess is that a domestic joined the flock , as many other flocks have no white birds in them .
Still nature is full of surprises .
Like the albino deer that show up for a few years and disappear for years and show up again .


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Re: Albino turkey [Re: charles] #7536496
03/23/22 02:42 PM
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here is one... [Linked Image]


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Re: Albino turkey [Re: charles] #7536498
03/23/22 02:43 PM
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I've never seen a pure white one. A friends son got one a few years ago that had white wings and a lot of white in it's tail. The beard was also white.

It's a neat looking bird.


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Re: Albino turkey [Re: charles] #7536504
03/23/22 02:48 PM
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Re: Albino turkey [Re: charles] #7536515
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I had a bearded hen who was half albino in front of me two years in a row. I never let the arrow fly. Not totally white but not normally colored.

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Re: Albino turkey [Re: charles] #7536522
03/23/22 03:06 PM
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[Linked Image]


I have this hen that roosts behind my house. She is the third one I have seen over the last decade in my area


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Re: Albino turkey [Re: charles] #7536525
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I had someone tell me the ones that were partially white but not albino were from breeding with domestic turkeys, not sure if there’s truth in that or not. I have seen several partial white ones in my are over the years

Re: Albino turkey [Re: WANNABE-TRAPPER] #7536526
03/23/22 03:15 PM
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Originally Posted by WANNABE-TRAPPER
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I have this hen that roosts behind my house. She is the third one I have seen over the last decade in my area

That's a Narragansett. I raise them.

Re: Albino turkey [Re: charles] #7536537
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In the local flock there is one pure white and one partial, mostly white. I at first assumed they had interbred with the domestic white ones but the I got to thinking those toms have been overbred to the extent that natural reproduction isn't even possible anymore.


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Re: Albino turkey [Re: charles] #7536546
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Wild turkeys will readily breed with domestic turkeys just like coyotes will readily breed with domestic dogs. I've seen a lot of "wild turkeys" in pictures and taxidermy that carry color genes, modifiers and patterning genes found in common breeds of domestic turkeys.

Keith

Re: Albino turkey [Re: KeithC] #7536575
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Originally Posted by KeithC
Wild turkeys will readily breed with domestic turkeys just like coyotes will readily breed with domestic dogs. I've seen a lot of "wild turkeys" in pictures and taxidermy that carry color genes, modifiers and patterning genes found in common breeds of domestic turkeys.

Keith


True, but all of those genes originated in wild birds way back when.


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Re: Albino turkey [Re: Redknot] #7536585
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Originally Posted by Redknot
here is one... [Linked Image]


Not an albino. Justa color phase . Albino has red eyes.

Re: Albino turkey [Re: charles] #7536587
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In ky they wanted you to kill them for years . The thought was they would carry a disease that woul spread to wild flock. Now they are nothing special...

Re: Albino turkey [Re: charles] #7536593
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I have seen all white birds running with the regular flock, as to being Albino, Quien Sabe'!


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Re: Albino turkey [Re: Kayleigh] #7536644
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Originally Posted by Kayleigh
Originally Posted by WANNABE-TRAPPER
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I have this hen that roosts behind my house. She is the third one I have seen over the last decade in my area

That's a Narragansett. I raise them.



That’s interesting. She is with a flock of 50 Eastern turkeys.


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Re: Albino turkey [Re: charles] #7537130
03/24/22 06:09 AM
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[Linked Image]

This one was with about 6 others a few years ago, she was blind or about so, walked to within 5 yards of her and when she heard me walking she got nervous, I clucked at her on a call and she settled right down.

Re: Albino turkey [Re: charles] #7537208
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Imagine that blind turkey trying to perch on a tree limb. She must roost on the ground.

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