Re: Albino turkey
[Re: charles]
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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]
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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]
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03/23/22 03:39 PM
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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: KeithC]
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03/23/22 04:39 PM
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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 True, but all of those genes originated in wild birds way back when.
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Re: Albino turkey
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03/23/22 04:52 PM
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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]
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03/23/22 05:41 PM
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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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