I’ve heard everything now…

[Meleagris gallopavo]

Yesterday morning I was hunting and the turkeys were the most vocal I've heard them be all year.  It was great!  Usually I only hear gobbling, and many mornings I don't even hear that.  Yesterday was different.  Started off normal with 2-3 gobblers firing up here and there.  A couple were gobbling after fly down so I started calling.  A hen fired up cutting and yelping about 100 yards behind me so I threw it back at her.  After we we were cutting and yelping back and forth several more hens joined in.  The one close to me came on in and I let her pass in front of me about 15 yards away and when she went out of site I started back up again.  She went nuts, but this time she circled behind me, fussing all the way.  She got close enough that I could hear her purr and cluck softly but never saw her.  She'd move off and I call her back.  One time I heard something like a muffled gobble came from her direction.  I thought it was a gobbler way off behind her.  It happened a couple more times and I could tell it was close and came from her direction each time.  The gobbles were not that short, but they were weak compared to a male gobbler.  Anyway, I looked it up and some hens can gobble.  I got tired of messing with her after a while but was so excited to hear a hen gobble that I had to tell it.  Any of you heard a hen gobble?


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[Happy]

I have heard domestic hens gobble.

[tad1]

That's pretty cool, love experiencing new things in the woods.

[Greg Massey]

Can't necessarily say I've heard one gobble, but i have had them make unusual sounds. I've had them come hangout most of the morning with me as I'm trying to call a gobbler.  I've also had a hen coming from a different direction taking other hens away in a different direction that were very vocal...  Pretty neat what you see with turkeys as your calling to them..

[HookedonHooks]

I've heard them gobble and seen them strut on several occasions. Hens in Kansas apparently drink Bud Light often.

[turkey stew]

I had a hen gobble and semi strut in front of me last season. Really made my hunting day successful!

[tracker vi]

I ran into one like this in the same spot for 3 years in row.

[kloppy]

I witnessed a hen do this last spring 80 yds away in a clear cut. She would throw a 1/4 gobble at the end of her yelp sequence.

[Chad Gus715]

I've heard hens gobble a few different times through the years.

[Farmboy27]

I've never heard a hen gobble ( at least that I know of). But I've seen videos of it. All I can think of is "great, as if hens haven't messed with me enough over the years"!!  ?

[aclawrence]

Cool I didn't know they did that. I think I may have heard a hen gobble the other morning now. I got set up on the edge of a cutover and select cut pines while listening to a hen do some soft tree talk. She yelped for a handful of times softly and then I heard this soft muted gobble sound. I knew I heard something but wasn't sure what it was. I thought it may have been a Jake but now it seems more likely it may have just been that hen. I ended up seeing a hen but never saw anything else.


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[WV Flopper]

 I have watched two hens at different times gobble.

A guy showed me a video this spring he took on youth day in VA of a hen strutting. He said she strutted for over an hour. Full fan up, wing tips down. Full on strut, it was a cool couple minutes of video.

[ferocious calls]

I have shot 2 strutting bearded gobbling hens. Once from a recliner chair inside a trailer that was abandoned with the front window gone. The other was last day near noon at a spot I had checked a dozen times that season. There was a Tom there too, but I couldn't believe what I was seeing and had to. She had white spurs.

I raise easterns and have seen quite a bit of strutting and even spit drumming from hens. Have not heard a pen hen gobble though.

There was a hen with another hen and poults that would gobble at me when I would encounter then on my road a few times. It was really cool.

[Meleagris gallopavo]

I would also like to add that I have seen a hen strut and beat the crap out of a hen decoy.  I have yet to see a bearded hen.


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[albrubacker]

That's awesome, they always seem to find a way to entertain.