Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[chickengr]

Can anyone help me with genders on these two? Pretty sure black is a pullet my big grey frizzled one has me stumped!
Togepi

Pikachu



I was wondering how true they breed as well? If you cross them with non-NNs?

they look like girls to me. both are beautiful, I guess I am the only one that love feathered legs on NNs.

if you cross them with non-NNs you should get 50 % of NNs.

 

[rooney85]

they look like girls to me. both are beautiful, I guess I am the only one that love feathered legs on NNs. if you cross them with non-NNs you should get 50 % of NNs.

I love feathered legs on my NNs! Togepi has bell bottoms, haha! I got these two as a surprise in a bunch of hatching eggs (fun and funky mix from My Pet Chicken). I really want to cross them with my Easter eggers and silkies (I have a frizzled EE and a regular silkie roo) and see if I can't get a fun mix but a friend told me there's only a 25% chance of more NNs from those crosses, I think she doesn't understand genetics though!

 

[DesertChic]

I'm not usually a fan of feathered legs on NNs, but I have to admit that my current batch of chicks with the feathered legs are really, really cute.

 

[Phill98]

I love feathered legs on my NNs! Togepi has bell bottoms, haha! I got these two as a surprise in a bunch of hatching eggs (fun and funky mix from My Pet Chicken). I really want to cross them with my Easter eggers and silkies (I have a frizzled EE and a regular silkie roo) and see if I can't get a fun mix but a friend told me there's only a 25% chance of more NNs from those crosses, I think she doesn't understand genetics though!

Even thought everybody says that you should and will get half of the chicks Nn, my experience says different. I agree with your friend and believe that you will get only about 25%. Last year I hatched ten chicks. Three were naked necks.

 

[rooney85]

Even thought everybody says that you should and will get half of the chicks Nn, my experience says different. I agree with your friend and believe that you will get only about 25%. Last year I hatched ten chicks. Three were naked necks.

That makes sense, factoring in hatch rates and things too.. learn by doing to an extent I guess? Second gen isn't that sure either, if you sell hatching eggs do you add a disclaimer then?

 

[revampedfashion]

This is my Wally. He is 5 weeks old and is a naked neck Cochin frizzle

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

This is my Wally. He is 5 weeks old and is a naked neck Cochin frizzle

So precious!!!!

 

[Phill98]

That makes sense, factoring in hatch rates and things too.. learn by doing to an extent I guess? Second gen isn't that sure either, if you sell hatching eggs do you add a disclaimer then?

I don't sell any of my eggs.

 

[chickengr]

I love feathered legs on my NNs! Togepi has bell bottoms, haha! I got these two as a surprise in a bunch of hatching eggs (fun and funky mix from My Pet Chicken). I really want to cross them with my Easter eggers and silkies (I have a frizzled EE and a regular silkie roo) and see if I can't get a fun mix but a friend told me there's only a 25% chance of more NNs from those crosses, I think she doesn't understand genetics though!

if you hatch all of the eggs and all of them hatch you might get 50% of NNs. that's why I find statistics useless.

 

[ForrestGump]

My eggs are advertised as hatching approximately 50% naked necks. I have hatched out 10 eggs and only got 3 turkens. My last hatch I had 14 eggs hatch and 10 were naked necks. In the end it averages out to approximately 50%

My hens are black but carry they wheaten gene. Just by probability you'd think half would be black when bred to a non-black rooster. However, usually 90% of my chicks hatch black. Genetics is just a probability, not an exact science. That is how we how hatch out 10 babies and get 10 cockerels!