Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[har]

I am new to this thread and have not read the whole thing. Could someone answer a couple of questions. I am thinking I want to raise some NN. A friend of mine has a beautiful large NN Blue rooster. He has four hens with them. If I would use his NN rooster on my Light split to Coro Sussix hens what color would I get and would the chicks be NN. Is the NN domitate when you cross. His hens are not laying right now, so do the NN's lay in the winter?

Thanks
Scott

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! Here's the very naked NN chick:

and the rest of the NN's from this weeks hatch.

The reddish NN chick to the right hatched from a Barred Rock hens egg (surprise). She's a new layer I just moved and NO IDEA which of the young NN boys might be the father --- kind of perplexing as those NN boys are all blue, splash, or black, haha.

Lisa

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

CUTE! Can't wait to see how they feather out.

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[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi Scott! I can't help with 'what color', but this will help you with whether the chicks will have naked necks or not.

Kev wrote:
"Formally", 'pure' naked neck would be genotype (NaNa), 'not pure' would be (Nana+) and 'feather neck' (na+na+). The + is just a notation to indicate wild type (Henk's calculator uses it for example). Not naked neck is the wild type version for this gene.

NaNa x na+na+= 100% Nana+
Nana+ x na+na+= 50% Nana+, 50% na+na+
Nana+ x Nana+= 25% NaNa, 50% Nana+, 25% na+na+ (this one is how two naked necked parents can throw feather neck chicks)
NaNa x NaNa= 100% NaNa
NaNa x Nana+ = 50% NaNa, 50% Nana

'Pure' can be small or no bow tie, 'not pure' is big bow tie, and 'feather neck' has no naked neck.

My NN girls have laid off and on all winter, but I think it depends on the individual bird.
Good luck!

Lisa
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[Knock Kneed Hen]

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flower, Kev brought me a little black bantam hen and a lavender cockerel last meet-up. They're so sweet!!

phage, Could you post a pic of the roo? What an amazing combo!!

Dipsey, that little chickie fluffed up to look like it actually has feathers!

har, I'm new to NN's and pretty new to chickens, so I'm no help to you. Just wanted to say

and hope you stop by often!

 

[har]

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Well I guess I am at least a short time owner of NN's I went to my friend and he let me borrow his NN's to see if I could get them to laying. So I've got a dark blue rooster(big guy and very hansome), two black hens, one brown hen and a barred hen. I wish I could post pictures on here but as of now I can't figure it out. Thanks for the info Dipsy D oodle Do.

 

[Nava]

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I'm loving this

I love that blonde chick!!! is it a batam?

 

[Buckguy20]

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Har,
I can only answer two of your questions. When you outcross NN's to any other breed you will get close to a 50/50 split. The ones that aren't naked neck will not carry the NN gene.
As far as laying goes I think it depends more on the bird not the breed and how much light they are getting.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! That splash chick should be LF, from this splash Frizz NN green-egger roo and one of these blue NN green-egger girls.

It is FOR SURE NaNa even though it has a small tuft of of a bow tie --- the poor naked darling, hahaha.
Usually the very naked ones I get are also frizzled, but that one looks like it is going to be smooth.

Lisa

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi Scott! Great score on the new (even for a short time) Naked Necks!
Blue roo x black hens will give you blue chicks and black chicks.
Blue roo x barred hen will give you blue and black girl-chicks and blue barred and black barred boy-chicks (boys will hatch with yellow head spot).
No idea on the blue x brown, though.
Check here for instructions on how to post pics.

Q: How do I post pictures on the forum?
A: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=504
A: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=427634

Can't wait to see pics!

Lisa

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