Hen with a beard & spurs

[Hwd silvestris]

Have any of you fellas ever seen a hen with spurs?   I have hen on camera at the deer feeder with a beard and spurs.    Although it may be a gobbler with a hen head.  Darnedest thing I've ever seen!  I'll try and post a picture


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[runngun]

Please post up the pictures, I would like to see it.

Have a good one and May God bless
Bo

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[Hwd silvestris]

On the first few pics I had of it I really didn't catch on to it.  As I looked closer I saw what appeared to be spurs so I was intrigued to look back at other photos and it was clear. 


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[Tail Feathers]

I've seen a bearded hen or two, but never heard of one with beard and spurs.  Cool pic!

[Turkeybutt]

That's one of them Transgendered turkeys

[Sir-diealot]

Saw my first bearded hen last May, this is a new one on me. I wonder what a biologist would have to say.

[guesswho]

Saw my first bearded hen last May, this is a new one on me. I wonder what a biologist would have to say.

If I was a biologist, I'd tell you if it identifies as a gobbler, then so be it. 

[Sir-diealot]

Saw my first bearded hen last May, this is a new one on me. I wonder what a biologist would have to say.

If I was a biologist, I'd tell you if it identifies as a gobbler, then so be it.

I was looking for a more scientific approach.

[guesswho]

Scientific?   Can't help you.   But I did stay at a Holiday one time

[Greg Massey]

Thank goodness it don't have fluorescent blue , green or pink on it's head ....

[Happy]

That's one of them mossyhead turkeys you  hear about. I bet it gobbles, but it sounds a little different. I have seen it before with domestic turkeys. Sometimes, something in the genetics just goes weird. I have always privately thought that was what the old timers didn't realize when talking about them. The descriptions of them were right along those lines.

[tal]

 I've seen bearded hens but the spurs had me, couldn't match them with that head. Happy you may have hit paydirt. Imagine what would be told if that bird was killed in the early 1900's, or even now. 

[ChesterCopperpot]

Seen plenty of bearded hens, but sure never seen one with spurs. That's wild.


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[deathfoot]

That's pretty awesome and unique.

I've been turkey hunting for 30 years and have yet to see a bearded hen. Much less anything like this.

[Guskie]

I see a smallish head, under developed waddles, and feathers that grow further up the neck than normal.

Other wise it has male plumage, and the obvious beard and spurs.