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Re: Turkey Gender Bending
[Re: Semo]
#4107393
03/26/24 04:28 PM
03/26/24 04:28 PM
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Joined: Oct 2014
Posts: 2,298
Houston County
Hoytdad10
8 point
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8 point
Joined: Oct 2014
Posts: 2,298
Houston County
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About the same as always where I am... less than 10%
A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.
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Re: Turkey Gender Bending
[Re: Semo]
#4107402
03/26/24 04:46 PM
03/26/24 04:46 PM
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Joined: Jun 2019
Posts: 3,397
Sylvania Alabama
Sandmtnslayer
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Jun 2019
Posts: 3,397
Sylvania Alabama
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We hunt down around union springs and it seems like there is a boatload of em. I read online that it doesn't hurt reproductive process
Not all Indians were hunters some toted firewood
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Re: Turkey Gender Bending
[Re: Semo]
#4107424
03/26/24 05:18 PM
03/26/24 05:18 PM
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Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 36,184
alabama
BhamFred
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 36,184
alabama
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prolly half of the gobblers near and in Liberty Park had multiple beards. Genetics, I guess.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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Re: Turkey Gender Bending
[Re: Mbrock]
#4107462
03/26/24 06:30 PM
03/26/24 06:30 PM
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Joined: Aug 2018
Posts: 5,209
Georgia and Missouri
Semo
OP
12 point
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OP
12 point
Joined: Aug 2018
Posts: 5,209
Georgia and Missouri
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I’m absolutely amazed at the total percentage of gobblers killed by ppl on here having multiple beards. I’ve killed one in my entire life, and it seems like the same ppl kill them every year. I don’t get it.
I see a beard on a hen about once or twice a year. That is interesting. We have a lot of multiple beard birds. Ive killed a couple 4 bearded, 4-5 with 3 beards, and a bunch with 2. I thought that was common. Now that I think about it I'm not sure if Ive killed any out of state birds with multiple. 🤷 Must be some genetic thing going on locally.
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Re: Turkey Gender Bending
[Re: Semo]
#4107736
03/27/24 09:17 AM
03/27/24 09:17 AM
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Joined: Feb 2016
Posts: 8,081
Right behind you
Mbrock
Fancy
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Fancy
Joined: Feb 2016
Posts: 8,081
Right behind you
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It would seem that as a genetic trait there may be a positive correlation between multiple beards (papillae) in males turkeys in populations with more females having beards. The most beards I know of on our place is 6. The ones Ive seen always have always gotten smaller as the number grows. But sometimes the second beard is pretty good size but by the time they get to the 3rd through 5th they get pretty thin. If the 1st is the size of a 12 gauge and the second is like a 20 gauge (or smaller) then it is like a 410 and then like a pencil. Some 2nd or 3rd beards are like a pencil, but Ive never seen them shorter than 4 inches. It seems like if they have an additional beard they are always at least that long even on jakes.
But Id say on the average 2 bearded bird the second beard is like a 410 to pencil size and in the 4-6 inch range. Ive never seen a beardless male, but I guess those are really rare. My son killed killed a mature rio in TX with 1 1/8” spurs, 20 lbs, but with a beard that was 3/8” long and 3/8” wide where it connected to the skin. It didn’t have beard rot either. Just a tiny beard.
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Re: Turkey Gender Bending
[Re: Mbrock]
#4108207
03/28/24 07:56 AM
03/28/24 07:56 AM
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Posts: 12,101
Sylacauga, AL
poorcountrypreacher
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 12,101
Sylacauga, AL
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I’m absolutely amazed at the total percentage of gobblers killed by ppl on here having multiple beards. I’ve killed one in my entire life, and it seems like the same ppl kill them every year. I don’t get it.
I see a beard on a hen about once or twice a year. That's about my experience. I don't remember but one with a double beard in AL, though I killed a couple of Rios with them in the Midwest. A bearded hen is something I see most seasons. Beards are just modified feathers. It's something interesting to check out once a turkey is killed, but it's not a big deal to me.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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