Piebald?

[Steelheadtracker]

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.

 

[MK111]

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.

 

[Steelheadtracker]

Hmm interesting. Looks very similar to yours

 

[giles]

Kinda hard to see with the sun behind it, but this one was smoke looking. Not white, but smokey grey.

 

[MK111]

Hmm interesting. Looks very similar to yours

I would say so from what the DOW explained to me in 2015.

 

[Steelheadtracker]

Sweet thanks for the info. Will see if i can find a few other pics i have.

 

[MK111]

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]

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.

 

[Steelheadtracker]

Interesting stuff mk111. Thanks. Glad you contacted the DOW and got the info

 

[Outdoorsfellar]

Cool looking bird !

 

[giles]

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]

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.

 

[Maxxis31]

My sisters coworker captured this piebald doe in NH next to where they work, pretty cool.

 

[Steelheadtracker]

Cool deer

 

[MK111]

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.

 

[Maxxis31]

I don't think i would shoot one even if i had the opportunity.

 

["J"]

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....