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I've been seeing a couple of white hens so I took the camera a long to see if I could get some pics. Here is what I got sorry grainy but here they are.

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Shovelbuck said:
Those are neat!
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Neat indeed... though I've been told that those color phases can either be the result of genetics OR inbreeding. Evidently inbreeding in our turkey populations is more of a problem than one would think. But entirely possible when one remembers that most of our turkey populations started out with just a few strategically placed transplants, since it wasn't that long ago that we barely had turkeys at all.

Very cool pics regardless of what caused it! I've never seen a white turkey. :way:
 
Neat pics. Those look to be "wild" domesticated hens. I icefish at a farm where the guy has all colors of turkeys. They don't leave his farm but a wild Eastern hen has visited the last 2 springs to get with a black & white tom. I yet to see any of her young.

Here's a link to some colors of turkeys. http://www.cacklehatchery.com/turkeypage.html#rp
 
That's pretty cool. I took a hen just like that, although maybe a bit darker, a year ago last fall with my bow. She's at the taxidermist as we speak.

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Handcannon said:
Neat pics. Those look to be "wild" domesticated hens. I icefish at a farm where the guy has all colors of turkeys. They don't leave his farm but a wild Eastern hen has visited the last 2 springs to get with a black & white tom. I yet to see any of her young.

Here's a link to some colors of turkeys. http://www.cacklehatchery.com/turkeypage.html#rp
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That's the other thing I meant to say. Could be a wild turkey/domesticated offspring...
 
I hear it some times caused by a deficiency in thier diet. I could be way wrong.

The other white hen that was with this flock the past two days only made a brief show and I got no pics of her, she is more chocolate with white wings.
 
That's pretty cool.. I notice you are from the Muscatine area. I'm from Wilton. I saw a hen like that, maybe a little darker, about 10 yrs ago about 7 or 8 miles north of Muscatine.. So, I guess the genetics are definately in the area. I've also heard of a whiteish tom in the same area.
 
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