Hey turkey people

[monstermoose78]

Yesterday on my way to the lake I came across something I have never seen before I saw 4 white turkeys, but they had Black mixed in. The group had 2 white toms strutting their stuff 2 white hens and 3 normal colored hens. I seen a white turkey with this color combo once in Camp Ripley, but never 4 of them and together. It was pretty cool I have a photo on my phone but it is a flip phone so the quality is not good and they look like snow piles a mile away.

[leech~~]

They may have been domesticated birds? (Farm raised)

[Hoyt4]

I've seen them wild there not true Albinos all the time but you will see them. Also another faze called smoked colored and they will have the white and black all mixed in look gray.

[Cheetah]

I saw a hen last year that was more than half white, like domestic turkey white. Never seen one before that though.

[monstermoose78]

I don't think they were domestic turkeys, but I don't know for sure. I know I had to stop and look at them. They sure looked cool.

[MahtowaDave]

I had 4 come into my spread early in my turkey hunting career. They are wild birds, they are fairly rare, and they are cool. They were within feet of me as I put the drop on a Tom that was at 40 yards! Maybe the coolest turkey hunt that I didn't have with my kids. They were mixed in with 4 other hens as well. Pretty cool sight.

[nbadger23]

This is a bit off topic, but it reminds me of my Wisconsin hunt last year. For two straight mornings I heard gobbles a ways off on land I couldn't get permission to hunt. It was a big stand of pines on the edge of a dirt road. Across the road was mostly all open field, with a 7 acre section of public land that was all wooded. Inside that public land was one acre of private property but the public land actually surrounded all of it. The 5 foot width of "fence line" along the guys driveway was literally public hunting grounds.

So I setup on the edge of the driveway, hoping to call the birds across the dirt road and into the freshly plowed field and my decoy setup. The only problem with this plan was that when they started gobbling they weren't in the pine stand. They were behind the guys house and when the turkeys started gobbling, all of the guys chickens started answering back!

So now it gets interesting as out walks the home owner to open the chicken cages and let them out. Now I've got chickens free range feeding out in the field, nearing my turkey decoys. The turkeys kept gobbling back to my calls but I never actually saw one. To this day, I don't know if they were wild or domestic turkeys as I was too afraid to work my way around the guys property. I figured as soon as I did the turkeys would come around the corner and I'd be busted so I never investigated any further but it does make me wonder if I'd misplaced the location of the gobbles the previous two days and my "perfect setup" was on a bunch of caged up domestic turkeys :-)