Strutting Hen

[ScottTaulbee]

We had another cool experience during youth season, on Saturday morning I called up a total of 8 different hens with the trumpet. This particular one came in mad, yelping her head off. I yelped back at her with the trumpet and she strutted and was spitting and drumming. She did this probably 30 minutes in front of us, just like a gobbler would, strut, walk 3 or 4 steps right, turn, spit, and strut back to the left. Crazy experience, my first time seeing one do it in the wild.



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[Greg Massey]

Yes it's unusual but occasionally it does happen. I agree it's neat seeing them do this ...

[Tom007]

Yes, I've seen this in the Fall.

[Zobo]

They can gobble too

[nyturkeyduster]

I've had them do the same. I've had them assault my decoys and gobble too.

[Greg Massey]

I've had a hen before come to me yelping etc and other hens come from a different direction and take that hen in front of me off in a different direction.. Amazing what they do sometimes ...

It's like they didn't appreciate that hen who was yelping etc

[perrytrails]

I pulled off the road scouting one morning. Lone hen was calling. I called back a few times and shortly she came out in the road strutting. It was really cool to see no doubt.

[NEhomer]

I would have shot her.

Hey, if you want to be treated like a lady, act like one! 


Lol!, that is a terrific experience, thanks for sharing.

[RutnNStrutn]

The other day I was scouting and spotted 4 hens scratching in the leaves. I was glassing them when a 5th hen joined them. She popped into strut and pushed the other hens around. After 5 minutes of bullying them, I guess she had made her point and relaxed. This was only the second time I've seen that.
The first was in SC hunting over a hen decoy. I called in a solo hen. When she spotted my decoy, she came straight in, popped into strut and pushed the deke around before walking off clucking. Pretty cool experiences. 

[WV Flopper]

 A friend had a video of a hen Strutting for like half an hour. The hen just kept circling his decoy.

I have not seen it personally, would be neat to see. Have seen two hen gobble.

[ScottTaulbee]

A friend had a video of a hen Strutting for like half an hour. The hen just kept circling his decoy.

I have not seen it personally, would be neat to see. Have seen two hen gobble.

She strutted for roughly 30 minutes or 40 minutes. My son missed a Jake while she was there or I'm sure she'd have hung around longer lol


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[Dougas]

I have seen hens strutting 4 times over the years and saw/heard one gobbling. It kind of seems a little surreal.

[Marc]

Very cool photos and experience!

I also had a hen come into me in full strut a couple years back.








She came in behind be when I had birds gobbling in front.  I initially heard her "spitting."  All I could see was a full-fanned bird, and I had to turn around to try and get a shot...  Until it became apparent she was a hen!

She put on a good show for a long time, and came quite close, and was not camera shy....

[RutnNStrutn]

I was hunting 2 days ago and called in 2 hens. They flew a creek and marched across a field to my DSD leading hen. Then one of them popped into strut and worked over my decoy. It was a pretty cool show. Enjoy fellas.

https://imgur.com/a/je0aQYq

[Lcmacd 58]

I've had them do the same. I've had them assault my decoys and gobble too.

2nd day of Illinois season this year. Strutted....kinda did a weird gobble .... fought with my DSD upright hen till it knocked it over. Thought i had it on my phone video but I guess I forgot to press the button.  🤣🤣