Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[draye]

Another view of same bird/ I will have to find the picture of him as day old showing the legs/feet clearly. One leg is all scaleless, the other totally normal. The naked area extended up around on breast and side up to inside of his arm(you can see it's partly naked in this pic- this same area was fully fuzzy on other wing). Rest of him seems normal... It would have been SO cool if he was exactly half n half from head to toe.. I have no idea what is going on with him.

I ve gotten a few babies almost that naked from my NN that just carried one naked neck gene. The father and mother both had big bowties.

 

[DesertChic]

Another view of same bird/ I will have to find the picture of him as day old showing the legs/feet clearly. One leg is all scaleless, the other totally normal. The naked area extended up around on breast and side up to inside of his arm(you can see it's partly naked in this pic- this same area was fully fuzzy on other wing). Rest of him seems normal...




It would have been SO cool if he was exactly half n half from head to toe..

I have no idea what is going on with him.

It's very Victor/Victoria....just fascinating.

 

[Kev]

That is an interesting bird. Reminds me of chimeras, where two embryos fuse and the birds are split down the middle into different colors.

That is one of the ideas I have about him- a possibility of him being a chimera of normal and a separate scaleless part.

He is mature now, has normal fertility(so likely not gynandromorph) and so far all of his chicks are completely normal, none are showing signs of carrying scaleless.

A portion of scaleless carriers have a deformed pattern of scales on their legs(either a patch of scaleless skin or a row of clear skin down the leg). However it is possible for carriers to have seemingly normal scale pattern... so his chicks having normal legs doesn't rule him out as a carrier that happens to have freakishly large amount of 'carrier sign'(wonder why it;s so asymmetrical though). Waiting for scaleless pullets to come into lay so he can be bred with them- if he is a carrier, then half of chicks would be scaleless. However if none turn up scaleless, I think this would point to him being a true chimera, with the scaleless part having not reached his gonads.

 

[Kev]

It's very Victor/Victoria....just fascinating.

Haha yeah and great movie!

 

[AZBootsie]

Here is Miss Priss in her pink baby sock dress and in her new digs, complete w/ blue mom, I never brood inside w/o "blue mom"

This is disturbingly adorable

 

[Pyxis]

That is one of the ideas I have about him- a possibility of him being a chimera of normal and a separate scaleless part.  

He is mature now, has normal fertility(so likely not gynandromorph) and so far all of his chicks are completely normal, none are showing signs of carrying scaleless. 

A portion of scaleless carriers have a deformed pattern of scales on their legs(either a patch of scaleless skin or a row of clear skin down the leg).  However it is possible for carriers to have seemingly normal scale pattern...  so his chicks having normal legs doesn't rule him out as a carrier that happens to have freakishly large amount of 'carrier sign'(wonder why it;s so asymmetrical though).   Waiting for scaleless pullets to come into lay so he can be bred with them- if he is a carrier, then half of chicks would be scaleless.  However if none turn up scaleless, I think this would point to him being a true chimera, with the scaleless part having not reached his gonads.

Well if you ever decide to sell some of those eggs, let me know! I love the scaleless birds.

 

[hellbender]

Kassaundra certainly seems to have all the luck in the 'cuteness' angle but a bit more of the labor too.


I'm not so sure 'Miss Priss' is not actually Miss Thing.

 

[Phill98]

I asked my neighbour if she can take some pics of her naked neck and she gave me this

 

[draye]

I asked my neighbour if she can take some pics of her naked neck and she gave me this

That's beautiful.

 

[Phill98]

That's beautiful.

Thank you, she will be mother of chickens I'll get. Father is white columbian, I will try to get pic of him