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There are a couple white hens around here. Seems like every few years there will be one but they don't seem to stick around for more than a couple years.

I'd shoot them if they were legal. But I think a white gobbler is pretty rare. Only a matter of time until a predator gets them.

-Austin

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Closest that I came to a white turkey was on a trip out in KS. Had a light brown and white jake on the farm I was hunting. Looked like hot chocolate with mashmallows. The outfitter put a price on that bird that kept me from shooting it. He wanted it to mature. I just sat and watched him for a while. Pretty neat bird.

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I wouldn't hesitate to shoot a white one or any color phase.  Have seen partly white/black almost like a dominecker chicken, and a bronze/copper colored one, the bronze colored one was the neatest.  They are nothing more than an off color turkey, ain't no thing. 

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9 minutes ago, MOPanfisher said:

I wouldn't hesitate to shoot a white one or any color phase.  Have seen partly white/black almost like a dominecker chicken, and a bronze/copper colored one, the bronze colored one was the neatest.  They are nothing more than an off color turkey, ain't no thing. 

          They taste the same so I would not hesitate either.

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White is not a good color for prey animals, it would get killed by nature soon enough. Probably a good thing to remove those genes from the pool. There used to be a lot of pied turkeys over the hill, but I remember when they were ranging white turkeys outside and always figured those pied birds were domestic cross.

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Back in the 80's, I hunted an area when the wild birds had mixed with the tame ones.  There was one almost white and several mixed.  They all looked more tame than normal wild ones.  Tail tips were light.  I was never able to bag the white bird.  But I did take some pics of the flock, on an old 35mm camera.  They are in a box somewhere.

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