Hatching Turkens

[kandooshe]

If a Turken rooster mate a chicken (not turken), what is the expected baby will be ??

 

[dadsdeercamp]

a naked neck chicken ? what kind of chicken?

 

[daisychick]

Pretty sure it is 50% chance of naked neck. The other 50% will be regular feathered . Not positive on this, but I hatched out some mixed eggs from a Turken roo and regular feathered hens and I was told it was 50/50 on the chicks.

 

[chickened]

First generation turken will produce naked neck crossed to non-naked neck after that it is a toss up.

 

[Kev]

Either 50% or 100% naked neck chicks, depending on if the turken is not pure or pure for the naked neck gene.

You often can tell if a bird is pure or not by the size of "bowtie"(patch of feathers on neck). Pure birds have either totally bare or just a small bowtie with few feathers, so the neck is very bare looking. Not pure have a much larger bowtie with many feathers covering most of the neck.

By the way, for the naked neck it does not matter which parent has it, can be turken rooster or turken hen crossed with other chickens and there will be babies with naked necks.

 

[TriciaHowe]

I hatched some eggs from Nava (board member) and had 3 hatch - the parents were NN roo with pure white rock hens - 2 were NN and 1 was regular feathered. When these chicks were old enough to lay I hatched 1 egg - one of her pullet eggs - and got a blue NN by my regular blue orp roo. It's a cockeral and we plan on breeding him back to the 2 NN hens when he is old enough.

 

[kandooshe]

Thanks all