Larkwell Valley (2023)

[JacinLarkwell]

Uhm.... da cluck is this thing?! It's half araucana, but my naked neck male (Johnny Law) is long gone and I think it has feather legs (I'll have to double check it later). It hatched under the brahma, but given her track record and the age of the other eggs, I gave this one to One Leg to care for since her chicks are all still close in size

 

[Canadian Wind]

Uhm.... da cluck is this thing?! It's half araucana, but my naked neck male (Johnny Law) is long gone and I think it has feather legs (I'll have to double check it later). It hatched under the brahma, but given her track record and the age of the other eggs, I gave this one to One Leg to care for since her chicks are all still close in size
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Hidden recessives?

 

[fluffycrow]

Hidden recessives?

The NN is dominant, so the heterozygous NN is still visible. That's what I've understood at least

 

[Canadian Wind]

The NN is dominant, so the heterozygous NN is still visible. That's what I've understood at least

I don't know anything about it. Never liked the looks of them.

Weird that it would be dominant though.

 

[fluffycrow]

I don't know anything about it. Never liked the looks of them.

Weird that it would be dominant though.

It's either dominant or incomplete dominant. Not sure which one

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Hidden recessives?

For the possible legs, I can see, but naked neck is dominant.

Its grandfather and great grandfather have feathered legs, and I suppose I can buy the naked neck on the father hiding the feathering on his legs enough that I didn't notice them.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

It's either dominant or incomplete dominant. Not sure which one

Incomplete. One gene makes the nice, pretty bowtie clump. Two genes makes a completely naked or scraggly 2-4 feathered neck

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Weird that it would be dominant though

Spite can do some bizarre things

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Yep, feathered legs.

Brahma hatched out another baby today. Not. Anaked neck, but looks like it came out of another blue egg. Johnny Law had one naked gene, so that could still be his chick.

I'll try to seperate Brahma and any other chicks she hatches before I leave and give Weirdo any eggs that are staggered from the hatching ones in that nest.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

For the possible legs, I can see, but naked neck is dominant.

Its grandfather and great grandfather have feathered legs, and I suppose I can buy the naked neck on the father hiding the feathering on his legs enough that I didn't notice them.

I want to add on to this too, I got Johnny Law when he was like 8+ week, so after he was done growing feathers. This chick has down now, so those down feathers might be way more visible than normal feathers would be on a grown naked neck