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Stange turkey

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Anyone seen anything like this one? Strangest one I've ever killed. Acted perfectly normal. 23.5lbs and long spurs.
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What the heck is that?
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Not sure. Was consistency of a horn like Material
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Maybe got something stuck in his craw that got infected .
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That is wild!

Second head?
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Sure is fugly!!
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That pic looks fake to me. Got any more?
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I sure hope ya' at least saved the neck portion to be examined by your local DNR or NWTF personal ;)
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Looks fake to me also. Prolly a pic off internet somewhere.
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Nope. Not fake and couldn't care less if you think so. Another pic anyways.
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Did he gobble, if so did he sound normal?
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Yes, he was gobbling and acted perfectly normal. Weight was 23.5 lbs and had some age on him
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That is crazy looking! Really cool bird.
Maybe at some point, a piece of beak or spur got lodged in there in a fight. I have no clue. Just a wild guess.
Two years ago I had two bucks locked up fighting on our farm. The one that was dead had his G2 stuck in the back of the live bucks eye. The tine broke off in there, and I shot the buck I cut loose a year later and he had a horn growing out of where that tine had gone in the back of his eye socket. Strange things happen in the wild.
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kcokie wrote: May 3rd, 2022, 6:00 pm Nope. Not fake and couldn't care less if you think so. Another pic anyways.20220419_083036.jpg2.jpg
Relax.

The pic just didn't look right. Thats why I had asked for another. Thanks for posting another one.
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Deff a freak of nature
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It is definitely a weird bird. Do you live near a nuclear power plant? 😁
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Should have at least kept the neck up. But I let the coyotes have it. Not real smart I guess.
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If I were to guess, your game department would have just looked and said "Yep, that's an odd one. Never seen that before.", and left it at that. I'd have probably cut it open and tried to find a source. I bet it was some kind of injury that caused something to grow wildly, or it has a rhino in the family tree. That's worse than a Rio/Merriam's hybrid, an Eastern/rhino hybrid.
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😂😂😂
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Im guessing your right about the game department. I killed another strange bird in Mexico (Goulds). Luckily Lovett Williams was there and did an autopsy on it. Lovette had only seen one other like it, but never a Goulds. I contacted NWTF and asked if they would be interested in it. They didn't give two flips.
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Wild looking for sure.

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