Weird looking turkey

[FoymountFarm]

I had a drive by sighting of an unusual looking turkey hen this afternoon. It was coloured grey/dirty white/dull silver and was without any of the normal turkey colouring on it. It was alone in the field and also looked to be pretty small, perhaps emaciated. Are light colour variations in Ontario turkey common?

 

[Southlander]

I have never seen one that colour myself but those colors are common for domestic Royal Palm turkeys, perhaps one escaped and bred to the population

 

[hunter148]

I have seen ones similar but few and far between. Depending on how close you were the ones I have seen have a darker striping in the gray when in closer. Now I think about it all were hens and I know of a group that was silvery with distinctive bars ... toms normal and some hens varying degrees of silver. Now that is food for thought

 

[redneckchris]

I have seen this twice so far, white turkeys with black bands or bars on the feathers
Looked to me like a cross between domestic and wild turkey?
Both cases were hens.... I think it would be cool to get a white Tom except for the taxidermy bill that would come with it

 

[swinginberrys]

Wild turkeys have different color phases and "smoke" is one of them

"The partially white or smoke-phase turkeys occur naturally,” said Tom Glines, Minnesota’s senior regional director for the National Wild Turkey Federation. “The white or gray feathers are black-tipped and the birds are beautiful."

I've only seen one, it was pretty neat.

 

[FoymountFarm]

Thanks for replys. Unfortunately I had to be somewhere else and couldn't stop to take a closer look and some pictures. Its the only one I have seen in this colouration. It saw it in Renfrew County, on Grattan Road (Cty22) between Hyndford and Hwy 41.

 

[Adrian J Hare]

Ottawa Valley is known to have that colour phase.

 

[wood800]

I seen one like this yesturday, took pics but no idea how to post pics in here

 

[DMS1]

Near Windsor Ontario, there is a peacock that has been running with a bunch of turkeys for the last couple years. This year I heard that it bred with the turkeys and the offspring are funky guinea hen looking. Anyone ever hear of this?