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[wychickenwrangler]

We recently hatched a batch of our homegrown eggs in the incubator. Two of them were from our mama turken. I know very little about genetics in chickens. One of them hatched out to be a little buff colored chick, which would make sense because we have a buff orpington rooster. He/she looks like a normal chicken. However, the second one is black and white, which also makes sense because we also have a black austrolorp rooster. He/she however has the naked neck & looks to be a turken. How does this work?

 

[AinaWGSD]

Please take this with a grain of salt, as I do not know much about the genetics of naked neck chickens and have not studied the subject very closely. But, I do remember reading that the naked neck gene is dominant. Meaning that it only takes one copy of the gene to produce a chicken with missing neck feathers. My guess would be, since one of the two eggs from this hen hatched with normal neck feathering and one hatched with no neck feathers, that your hen only has one copy of the naked neck gene. So in the roll of the genetic dice, the buff colored chick did not inherit a gene for naked neck, but the black chick did.

 

[wychickenwrangler]

Thank you very much for that information !!!!! Like they say, " you learn something new every day" !!!!