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Piebald?

Steelheadtracker

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Is this turkey pie bald? I saw it last year during deer season also. Just saw pics look terrible because i posted from phone. I will put good ones up shortly.
 

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MK111

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Did it look like the hen in my old post I just brought back up? I sent a picture to DOW and they said it was a piebald and about 1% of Ohio turkeys had this trait. DOW said about 800,000 wild turkeys in Ohio so about 8,000 piebald turkeys,
I see this piebald couple times a year in a flock. If I see it during the fall season I plan to harvest it and do a full mount.
 

MK111

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Makes no difference to me but the DOW info stated in 2015 when i sent my picture to them.
There was no such thing as a smoke phase turkey. The correct name was a piebold color phase.
DOW explained it was caused by a lack of color pigment in the feathers.
Even though the everyone else calls it a smoke phase.
 

Hoytmania

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I always kinda figured a domesticated turkey got loose and got it's freak on with a wild turkey and that was the result. Guess I was wrong.
 

giles

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Makes no difference to me but the DOW info stated in 2015 when i sent my picture to them.
There was no such thing as a smoke phase turkey. The correct name was a piebold color phase.
DOW explained it was caused by a lack of color pigment in the feathers.
Even though the everyone else calls it a smoke phase.

I wasn't by any means calling you out. I don't know a thing about turkeys? Some gobble and some cluck. The one I attached was different so I took a few pics of it.
 

MK111

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I wasn't by any means calling you out. I don't know a thing about turkeys? Some gobble and some cluck. The one I attached was different so I took a few pics of it.

I know.
 
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MK111

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In seen a piebold doe when I hunted the Plum Brook location in 1976 but the damn thing had a radio collar and we couldn't shoot collared deer.
 

"J"

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I had a piebald buck a half dozen years ago that kept showing up, he always got a pass as he was just a 1.5 year old and was just cool too watch....