Naked neck along with other ornaments

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! I've read NN's are tolerant of heat and cold (no experience with cold here, only heat) and I've only raised Naked Neck birds for 3 years.

Lisa

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

UGLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Watch it... There are a lot of birds I don't find attractive.
I refrain from posting on those topics and expressing my opinion about what I think they look like.

I'd suggest you do the same.
edited to add:
That's just rude and un-called-for, you sheep. Again, I pass by many threads because I don't have anything nice or constructive to add to the thread.
I'd suggest you learn to do the same.

Lisa

 

[fowltemptress]

I have a blue NN with feathered legs who is, quite frankly, the most gorgeous chicken I have ever seen. The word ugly never once popped into my head when I first laid eyes on my little beauty

 

[EweSheep]

Forgive me! Yep, bad manners on my part....

 

[CrimsonTide248]

Here is my favorite Naked Neck. She follows me around the yard like a dog. I really think she loves me.

Mo

 

[Marlinchaser]

Quote:
Hey lisa why dont you tell us how you really feel about NN's ?

 

[silkieluver_07]

I see that some NN's have a "clean" neck with no feathers, but some have a patch of feathers on their neck. Is this genetic? I'd like to learn more about the breed.

 

[Ms. Lewis Rich]

Crimson Tide.

Mo is a real beauty is she Bantam or Standard?

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

I see that some NN's have a "clean" neck with no feathers, but some have a patch of feathers on their neck. Is this genetic? I'd like to learn more about the breed.

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​

 

[CrimsonTide248]

Crimson Tide.

Mo is a real beauty is she Bantam or Standard?


Thank you, she is a standard. The picture doesn't do her justice. She has some of the prettiest black feathers, with a green shean.