o gosh this is so wonderful, thank you for your reply so very much...! ,i felt as much about the blue verses green eggs & the lightest color egg layer in the NN s Then take the truest blue ones to hatch & continue on with them , but the most important , i dont want to loose the heat resistance of the NN , im going for the most heat resistant bird possible, so maybe just getting to that point is the major point & if the crest is lost its ok, then keep heading towards all the other possibilities, but thank you so very much for your help..!!!!! So sorry you lost your birds to coons, gosh ..? but as far as the NN goes i have a few friends that are into the NN and they have been very helpful..! i wish you all the best of luck and keep those coons away...!!! take care and thanks againI've not worked with Naked Necks, so I'm not familiar with the genetics for the naked neck and its dominance.
The CL crest does seem to be dominant, at least to the first generation, unfortunately I sold or lost that first generation (raccoon), so I can't comment on the F2 dominance for that crest. I'm having to restart my CL x Barnevelder project with a new CL pullet (raccoon again), so it'll take me a year or so before I'll know what F2 looks like.
But I was encouraged thus far that the crest is dominant, as it has been in my offspring and the offspring of my buyers (who sent back photos per my request for tracking).
But as to the neck feathers....no idea. That will take test breeding on your part.
As to the egg color. You would like blue eggs vs. green eggs.
You will need to work with the lightest eggs from your Turken hens bred to your CL rooster and only set those. Then see what happens. Then take the truest blues. For egg color focus, the fastest way would be to breed back to the CL and keep working for blue. Eventually that brown wash will breed out. Don't be surprised if you get some throw backs as the brown wash genetics covers about 13 genes, some dominant and some recessive.
That would be the way I'd do it for color, however, getting color AND body type together could put you at odds. Turken (and necked neck) will always bring brown wash back in, CL (and crest) will possibly bring in neck feathers.
Good luck!
LofMc