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I'm curious now, would love to see pictures of both(monkey and caddy) your birds.... both the bowtie birds and bare necks.. adult/juvenile and chick pics would be great. I'll put up a recent picture, these chicks were out of a large bowtie rooster with two small bowtie hens. Dark blue...

Quote: You shouldn't go clutch by clutch. It's the total number of offspring. It's the same as some clutches can be mostly of one sex and another clutch of another sex, even though the ratio is supposed to be 50-50. I've had clutch results such as only 2 males out of 13 in one clutch. This...

Quote: Were the bowties all very small or largish and covering most of the lower neck? And the bare necks completely bare necked from hatch, not even a single feather on the necks ever? Don't get me wrong, there are true bare necked birds. Just that these are pretty uncommon.. and I am...

92caddy, I covered part of this in my post right above yours. It is not true that a bird with bow tie is automatically not pure(or has one gene for it in your words). Most of what you were told is mostly correct but.... Fact is, most naked necks pure(2 genes) for naked neck DO have a bow...

Short answer- naked neck is a dominant gene so yes there will be naked necked chicks out of the cross. Either half of them will have it or all of them, depending on if the naked necks were pure for the naked neck gene. You can tell if a bird is pure for the naked neck gene if the neck is...