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Hi! Scroll down to the bottom of this thread for a little bit of interesting discussion about bowties on Naked Necks (at least interesting to me).
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"I recently read a study that I wished I would have saved but I didn't and it stated that the only way to tell whether a NN was Hetrozygous or Homozygous was to do a DNA test. Seems that either NaNa or Nana can have the bow-tie."
"Would have loved to see that study.. however there is another way- it can be discovered by test-mating.
One easy way is to mate a NN to a non-naked necked bird. If the pair produces any non-naked chicks, it is proven heterozygote. All chicks having naked necks, probable homozygote- this proof becomes stronger the more chicks are hatched(10 at the very minimum.. 20-30 is far better). A good example of test-mating is breeding a showgirl to a silkie. If it produces both SG and silkies, then the showgirl is a heterozygote.
I have bred by now 300+ chicks from naked necked matings done various ways and I can assure that homozygotes can and do have either bowties or totally bare necks. In fact MOST homozygous naked necks have bowties, those would be the ones with small bowties with very visible naked areas below it and also exposed shoulders & crop. This visible difference is also apparent even in day olds- homozygotes have a pair of clearly separate and small puffs while heterozygote chicks have a much larger and "solid looking" fuzz patch on front of the necks. Once you recognize it, it becomes pretty easy to see."
Lisa
Thanks so much for the info Lisa!
Hi! Scroll down to the bottom of this thread for a little bit of interesting discussion about bowties on Naked Necks (at least interesting to me).
excerpt:
"I recently read a study that I wished I would have saved but I didn't and it stated that the only way to tell whether a NN was Hetrozygous or Homozygous was to do a DNA test. Seems that either NaNa or Nana can have the bow-tie."
"Would have loved to see that study.. however there is another way- it can be discovered by test-mating.
One easy way is to mate a NN to a non-naked necked bird. If the pair produces any non-naked chicks, it is proven heterozygote. All chicks having naked necks, probable homozygote- this proof becomes stronger the more chicks are hatched(10 at the very minimum.. 20-30 is far better). A good example of test-mating is breeding a showgirl to a silkie. If it produces both SG and silkies, then the showgirl is a heterozygote.
I have bred by now 300+ chicks from naked necked matings done various ways and I can assure that homozygotes can and do have either bowties or totally bare necks. In fact MOST homozygous naked necks have bowties, those would be the ones with small bowties with very visible naked areas below it and also exposed shoulders & crop. This visible difference is also apparent even in day olds- homozygotes have a pair of clearly separate and small puffs while heterozygote chicks have a much larger and "solid looking" fuzz patch on front of the necks. Once you recognize it, it becomes pretty easy to see."
Lisa
Thanks so much for the info Lisa!
