First trad turkey and something is wrong

[Hooper]

I have been watching and waiting to see your reply David. I have never seen or heard of a growth on a turkey's foot like that. Good to know what would cause it, thanks for posting the answer and congrats on your harvest, nice shooting!

[snag]

http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/publications/field_manual/chapter_19.pdf

The game dept. here in Oregon felt it was something called the "avion pox"....

[metsastaja]

Thanks for the update

[mooseman1967]

snag, they didn't think it was a form of pox because it was only traced on the knee joints of the legs. They named a couple other conditions that they eliminated because they were not found on the rest of the body but I can't remember the name of those.
Thanks, Dave
P.S. here is a closer pic of the knee Joints.
 
 

[beyondmyken]

There are a number of nasty looking chronic conditions related to infections, look up madura foot, whick can happen in people.  This is probably something similar.

[snag]

Good thing you put him out of his misery! He probably didn't get many dates with those legs...