Naked neck dominant?

[Sitka]

Is a naked neck like Turkens have dominant or recessive?

How about Easter Egger-style muffs / beards?

Thanks for any thoughts on this.

 

[Kev]

Both the naked neck and beard/muffs are dominant, also usually with a degree of visible difference between those pure or not pure for either trait.

Example, a bird not pure for naked neck often have a very large bowtie with the feathers covering all or most of the lower front neck and those pure for naked neck have a much smaller bowtie and the lower front, crop and very front breast area are very visible. The difference is obvious even in day olds:

chick on left is not pure, on right is pure.

Beard/muffs are pretty variable it can become hard to tell which bird is pure or not pure, although if you do a cross with a non bearded bird you will see some offspring with "skimpier" beards/muffs, although there still can be some surprises like a cross chick with reasonably large and full muffs/beards.