Got one this morning and had a funky toe. Was it broken?(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/03/31/7uje6ade.jpg)(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/03/31/beby6e3e.jpg)
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Congrats on the bird! Not sure about the toe, I was taking a youth hunter and called one in once that was missing most of his though.
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Could have been. I killed one like this before. They also get a condition called bubble foot.
Shot one like that last year
congrats pretty crazy toe
Very unique. Congrats!
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Killed this one in 2012, looks like he was trying to grow another toe. Crazy stuff.
Are you guys hunting near nuclear power plants? lol!!
Quote from: CT Spur Collector on March 30, 2014, 04:55:54 PM
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Killed this one in 2012, looks like he was trying to grow another toe. Crazy stuff.
You think it froze off !
Quote from: the Ward on March 30, 2014, 05:02:08 PM
Are you guys hunting near nuclear power plants? lol!!
:TooFunny: :TooFunny: I was thinking the same thing. Congrats on the birds.....
now thats something else. might be bumblefoot
No pics but a few years back I killed one with a bumb foot. didn't slow him down any as I watched him bread a hen 20 minutes before I killed him.
Quote from: alloutdoors on March 30, 2014, 03:11:01 PM
Congrats on the bird! Not sure about the toe, I was taking a youth hunter and called one in once that was missing most of his though.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/alloutdoors/Hunting/DSC03561Medium.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/alloutdoors/Hunting/DSC03560Medium.jpg)
How did this poor bugger roost!?!? Little limbs?
Crazy :newmascot:
Quote from: Gooserbat on March 31, 2014, 11:43:50 AM
No pics but a few years back I killed one with a bumb foot. didn't slow him down any as I watched him bread a hen 20 minutes before I killed him.
You are a good man for letting him breed first.
I would think frostbite, bumblefoot, or simple injury.
I did a post mortem for the State Agency where I live that had a bird die with a tracking collar as well as a wing tag. It was a hen in a county that is closed to all turkey hunting, part of a tracking study. Found a single puncture wound entering just next to the crop. I figured an arrow with a field tip. Necropsy showed a branch broken off about 3cm under the wound, extending all the way to the spine. At that angle, it was pretty obvious she did not see the branch at flydown and impaled herself.
:TooFunny: nuclear plants.
I would guess maybe a broken bone that healed?? I shot one last year that had a back toe that was real bubbled up, kinda like the pic above where all 3 toes are like that except much larger. I cut into it and the bone there was bigger and extended all the way up to the spur, so thought maybe it healed funny? Looking at google images, some of these pics are the same as bumble foot?? Happens from walking on hard sharp terrain, which makes sense since the bird I shot was a merriams. Interesting nonetheless, congrats on the bird