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Offline rosscrazyelk

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Ever seen one of these?
« on: February 02, 2009, 07:15:25 PM »
I took this last year but had to share.
If its brown knock it down

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Re: Ever seen one of these?
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2009, 07:16:32 PM »
 :yike: Butterball  :EAT:

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Re: Ever seen one of these?
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2009, 07:17:21 PM »

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Re: Ever seen one of these?
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2009, 07:23:46 PM »
Looks like a roof in the background.  Could it be a domestic bird hanging with a wild flock?
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Re: Ever seen one of these?
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2009, 07:26:55 PM »
I do not think there are any domestics around this area. I could be wrong.
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Re: Ever seen one of these?
« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2009, 08:03:35 PM »
I do not think there are any domestics around this area. I could be wrong.
 If it was a Tom can you shoot em?

Sure, if you're on public ground or private with permission.  But a domestic will be built like a brick sh_thouse in comparison to a wild bird.
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Re: Ever seen one of these?
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2009, 02:27:09 AM »
I think you can shoot any white turkey's that are running with the wild turkey's and you dont need to tag them! I'm not a 100% sure though, i have just heard you can from a few people! :dunno:
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Re: Ever seen one of these?
« Reply #7 on: February 03, 2009, 07:28:04 AM »
We had an albino hen hanging around the Asotin Creek drainage for a couple years. I used to see her every now and again while out and about. However, I haven't located her in two years so she may have passed on, the yotes may have gotten her, or someone decided they wanted to "take her home". She sure was cool to watch though.


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Re: Ever seen one of these?
« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2009, 07:53:17 AM »
I used to see them "albino" turkeys all the time near Anatone when we were heading to the fish the Grand Ronde.

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Re: Ever seen one of these?
« Reply #9 on: February 03, 2009, 08:06:06 AM »
Yea Woody, I've seen those up around Anatone also. Not sure if they were true "albinos" though...but they certainly weren't colored "normal".

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Re: Ever seen one of these?
« Reply #10 on: February 03, 2009, 08:47:54 AM »
I think you can shoot any white turkey's that are running with the wild turkey's and you dont need to tag them! I'm not a 100% sure though, i have just heard you can from a few people! :dunno:

I've heard that too but it may have changed... may still be valid in ID though.

I saw an albino running around up near Colville several years ago.  It was a hen and I saw the thing like 4 or 5 times one season.

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Re: Ever seen one of these?
« Reply #11 on: February 03, 2009, 07:07:33 PM »
I had a guy call me a few years back looking for birds to release on his property. I was filling him in on the legalities of it when he said he had already been talked to by the game dept. Seems he had some Merriam's he had bought off the internet and a few of the chicks were white. A bear got into his pen and got some of the birds but some escaped as well. The game dept. got wind of a guy that used to have some white turkeys so he got a visit. They looked over his pen and believed his story but fined him for not having the proper shipment papers. From what I understand it is not all that uncommon to see white turkeys in the wild populations across the US. They do make a visible target for all predators and don't generally last a long time. That does not mean that their genes don't hang on a while.

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Re: Ever seen one of these?
« Reply #12 on: February 03, 2009, 07:13:10 PM »
Saw one in elk this year it was runnign wiht about 40 other birds

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Re: Ever seen one of these?
« Reply #13 on: February 03, 2009, 07:52:48 PM »
I'm with bow4elk on this one, due to the size it's probably a wild albino :twocents:
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Re: Ever seen one of these?
« Reply #14 on: February 03, 2009, 08:59:11 PM »
I know a guy who killed a mature bird in the Blues that was completely white. I guess it was with a couple other toms and it was the dominant bird. I think they are kinda ugly, none of the colorings we all love on turkeys. And I saw an albino poult/young bird with about 30 other birds this september.

 


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