Beardless Tom

[Fox]

Don't know as I don't hunt elephant.
You can not extrapolate the causal effect between elephants and turkeys. First have to determine if a population of true beardless toms exist. At the moment don't even know if this genetic trait exist.

I know of people seeing bearded Toms, there is a picture here of one that is essentially beardless.

If there is 1 that has no beard then it is a genetic trait that can be passed down, no different than a bearded hen will pass down the genetic trait to their offspring.

[finsfurfeathers]

I know of people seeing bearded Toms, there is a picture here of one that is essentially beardless.

If there is 1 that has no beard then it is a genetic trait that can be passed down, no different than a bearded hen will pass down the genetic trait to their offspring.

No what we have here is what appears to be a visibly beardless tom to which cause unknown. You can see in my picture what at a distance it appeared to be a beardless tom on closer inspection I could identify a beard. Once processed can clearly see its a bearded tom in which the beard has been compromised. To be a genetic beardless tom that stump would need to be missing.

[rick_iles]

I know of people seeing bearded Toms, there is a picture here of one that is essentially beardless.

If there is 1 that has no beard then it is a genetic trait that can be passed down, no different than a bearded hen will pass down the genetic trait to their offspring.

I’ve seen thousands of turkeys, bearded hens are pretty common. I’ve yet to see a beardless gobbler. I’ve seen a few with beard rot that leaves just enough beard to poke out through the breast feathers. I don’t think there is any concern with gobbler’s genetics being altered because bearded birds get shot, any time soon !!

[fratri]

I’ve seen thousands of turkeys, bearded hens are pretty common. I’ve yet to see a beardless gobbler. I’ve seen a few with beard rot that leaves just enough beard to poke out through the breast feathers. I don’t think there is any concern with gobbler’s genetics being altered because bearded birds get shot, any time soon !!

That is for sure.......