Interesting day in the field yesterday.....PICS UP

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Well I went Turkey hunting.....saw an albino turkey?? It was about 400 yards away and I was looking through the binos. I see this light beige/cream coloured turkey walk across the road into the edge of the field. Anybody ever saw one of those? I waited about 5 mins. thinking more will be following.....nothing. So I decide to call, couple clucks/yelps and the turkey turns around and heads back across the road never to be seen again.

Then, 20 mins later finally hear something other than a squirrel coming behind me on my right. I turn to see what is about to emerge into the edge of the field......black coyote.....he saunters out about 25-30 yds in front of me and stops. Bang, #6 turkey shot dropped him instantly. My first black and first shotgun coyote. Then, I'm standing in the field about 2 mins after my shot looking at my first black coyote. Then just inside the treeline about 75 yds away Snort / wheeze crash ...... crash ..... wheeze .... crash. Still haven't seen a deer since bow season opened but now I know there's at least one there.

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Without flash looks jet black....flash highlights under coat.
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sms0000 said:
I'll get pics up tonight.....at work right now. Hey FOX your link doesn't work. Anybody seen have pics of light coloured turkey....not domestic white.
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Likely not an albino but more likely a piebald......albinos are very rare but piebalds are definitely more common and where you find one, you seem to find more. The coyote is likely melonistic which would explain the black colour....you don't hunt near a neuclear plant do you? :eek::eek:
 
100% not domestic turkey ....... maybe a cross? OR piebald as mentioned above. 100% coyote ..... an acquaintance shot one down the road from where I was hunting about 10 years ago when we where deer hunting, also all black.
I will post pics tonight for all you non believers. I just wish that turkey would have come a lot closer....:sniper: I wish the coyote had it's winter coat it would have been beautiful. lol, I do not live anywhere near a nuclear plant :D
 
John Marshall said:
Just buggin. It can't be a cross as all domestics are sterile unless it was from a heritage breed.
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Why??? Are your turkeys on birth control or something....Good thing you didn't tell my free-range domesticated
turkeys years ago that they were sterile, cause then they wouldn't have bred and raised young.:p
 
Did a little research in the web and apparently there have been many reports/pics of odd coloured turkeys....recessive traits and such. There was one I saw on the web that said there is a "ghost" turkeys .... they have natural patterns when you look up close but appear as light gray colour from distance. Anyhow, Definetly a genetic screw up of some sort. See I ain't crazy :runaway:.
 
beefman said:
Why??? Are your turkeys on birth control or something....Good thing you didn't tell my free-range domesticated
turkeys years ago that they were sterile, cause then they wouldn't have bred and raised young.:p
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The ones you buy from the feed mill etc come from GM stock. They Artificially inseminate the hens(special breeding stock) and the off spring rarely produce. Years ago they were not Genetically modified.
 
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