Bald chick?

[Harmony Fowl]

This chick hatched in the last 24 hours. Now that it’s dried off, it appears to have bald spots on either side of its head, just behind its eye sockets. They are on both sides and rather symmetrical, so I’m not thinking of pecking or an accident immediately. The chicks are all in an extra incubator while the rest hatch. Anyone seen this before?

 

[emmyn74]

I had one like that but the spot went all the way down it's neck...it looked like that for weeks until it started getting in it's adult feathers...now it looks fine...I'm not sure what caused it...but he looked like a turken for a long time.

 

[Harmony Fowl]

I had one like that but the spot went all the way down it's neck...it looked like that for weeks until it started getting in it's adult feathers...now it looks fine...I'm not sure what caused it...but he looked like a turken for a long time.

I have another like it but with only one spot and it’s not nearly so obvious. I did have a naked neck cockerel that I sold, though not before I saw him attempting to mate. I know that wasn’t the possibility you were suggesting, I just wonder if that could be a possibility. The cockerel was already heterozygous for NN and so it wasn’t expressed completely; I don’t know if it’s possible to have that gene expressed even less. We shall see! This hatch was a weird one. I got two curly toes, an egg that pipped and then bled and eight others that haven’t hatched. I’ve already dubbed it my Frankenhatch.

 

[Harmony Fowl]

Well, these chicks are now four weeks old and still bald. The double bald chick is a pullet but she didn’t want to come out for a picture. The single bald chick is a cockerel and he let me take his picture.