That is odd, but the spurs tell the tale!
Not sure you can tell in the pic, but my gobbler's fan had the shorter tail feathers that are indicative of a jake. However, his beard was 10.5 inches long, spurs were exactly one inch. Why is this? Hard to tell whether this was an old bird, or just a young one with good beard and spurs.
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That is odd, but the spurs tell the tale!
I bet he was doing some early sparring and the new feathers had not quite gotten there yet. Beard and spurs are good.
nice one
likely some kind of regrowth from a molt or a feather loss from something maybe ?
looks like a mature bird otherwise to me
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X2! Molt or something.
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that's no jake's tail. that is a 2 year old at least.