Ever seen a strutting hen?

[huntinfool84]

My daughter has a youth tag and we had 2 hens come in that stayed for a little over 30 minutes. One of them was full strut and beating the crap out of the decoy. They were 18 yards or less the entire 30 minutes and I just couldn't grow a beard on either one. But regardless it was very cool to see a hen strut around

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[huntinfool84]

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[packer58]

Iv'e never seen a hen strut like a tom........but have seen a few with short beards....

 

[Wyatt.Carter]

Crazy, never seen that before!

 

[Cant hit em]

We had one do the same thing the other morning

 

[CorbLand]

It’s the 21st century guys. The hens can be whatever they want to be.


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[West.mass.hunter]

Never seen that before but it's neat. Seen a couple hens with beards

 

[JBrew]

There's your dominate hen

 

[LongWayAround]

I've seen that a few times. The first one almost got folded...

Our opener is Saturday and I can't wait to get after them.

 

[DerkPerk]

I have a pet eastern hen that we hatched and raised with our chickens. She does that as a dominant gesture to the other birds and sometimes me. I’m sure to put her in her place so she doesn’t pull that with my daughters... Before she was confirmed a hen, I thought we had a Tom. Never seen it in the wild though.

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[huntinfool84]

It was just crazy to see, I'm not much of a turkey hunter as I've only killed one myself about 5 years ago. When I seen her strutting I just knew it was a jake, I had my daughter ready on the gun a couple times just knowing it had to be a jake! I just could not pick up a beard in my binos at 18 yards, so we got a couple pics and a couple videos. We sent out a video to a couple family and friends then I sent them the "turkey down" text with the following pic lol

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[KHNC]

I shot a gobbling hen once. FORTUNATELY, it had a 8 inch beard. Those are legal in NC. Weak sounding gobble, but it did. i was very relieved to see the beard when i rolled it over.

 

[Salmon River Solutions]

That hen identifies as a Tom.

 

[Sccritterkiller]

I have seen hens strut and fight with each other and all the Tom could do was stand there and watch...seems like a see hens fight the most when they dusting themselves...hen get down start dusting and then out of nowhere another one will come in and strut and run her off.

 

[huntinfool84]

Well she got it done today

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[motts]

Congrats! Nice bird!

 

[JAD915]

A few years ago I saw a hen doing what looked like strutting, an even let out a couple calls that sounded like gobbles. I've read that all turkeys can make the same vocalizations.