Naked necks anyone?

[Rhodeislandsilkie]

Hey, guys. My flock has been doing good. So, I decided to see if any of you guys have any naked necks you would like to share. I love naked necks. They’re so cute and funny looking. I have twoH
I have Kira on the left. She’s a very sweet bird. She’s like the perfect chicken. Then, on the right is Amber. She is LOUD. She sounds like a little siren. It’s very cute.

So, if you want, post a picture of your naked neck and tell a little something about them.
Thanks and happy holidays!

 

[LittleRedRanch]

She is a rescue. Dumped in an abandoned parking lot. She is a great chicken. Started laying a week after she got here. Super friendly. Steals food from my kids. Walks into the house like she owns it.

 

[CannedMonster]

Naked Neck gene primer: just to be clear.

The naked neck gene is an incomplete dominant gene. Meaning a fully feathered bird cannot hide the gene to pass it on. One copy will show a partial naked neck and two copies will show a full naked neck.

2 copies: expressed as Na/Na. Called Homozygous. (we can call this "Hom")
Shows either a small bow tie or clean neck.
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1 copy: expressed as Na/na. Called Heterozygous. (we can call this "Het")
Shows a bigger "bib".
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0 copies: expressed as na/na. This is a normal fully feathered bird.
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Breeding them together:

na/na (0) + Na/na (1) = 50% (0), 50% (1)

Na/na (1) + Na/na (1) = 50% (1), 25% (2), 25% (0)

Na/na (1) + Na/Na (2) = 50% (1), 50% (2)

Na/Na (2) + Na/Na (2) = 100% (2)

Na/Na (2) + na/na (0) = 100% (1)


and if visuals help better, the Na genetics can be overlaid right on top of a Black/Blue/Splash breeding chart as the gene works the same way.
Just sub Na/Na for splash, Na/na for blue, and na/na for black.
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Thank you for this. It really helps.
I’m still not sure who’s eggs my two Naked Neck chicks came from.
I know I set one of Agatha’s eggs and she’s Na/Na.
I may have set one of Emily’s too and she’s Na/na as well as my previous roo, Angus.

Anyway, here’s a photo of these two chicks.
They’re 6 weeks now and I’m pretty sure they’re cockerels.
They have great camouflage just like Cleo did.
One is Na/na and one is Na/Na.

 

[cactusrota]

Well, I don’t exactly know what caused this breed. Yes, they stay naked. I think they were originally a Turkish breed.

Naked Necks are believed to be originally from some of the game birds in Indonesia and other southeast countries, like the Dong Tao, bred because they really like chicken skin over there.....

They were brought to Europe where they became the Transylania Naked Neck because they became popular in Romania.
I've been crossing mine with Bresse, Jersey Giants, and some others to improve dual purpose/meat qualities as they've been bred as ornamentals long enough that they've been getting kinda boney.

Here's some of my hens that are crossed with imported Transylvania lines:

And a newer cockerel that hatched from a blue egg. I'm hoping to make some NN/EE's with him.

 

[Compost King]

Just bought a Naked Neck Roo a few hours ago, He has a naked Chest too.

Not a great focus but it shows how far down he Naked Neck goes

 

[no fly zone]

Yes, it is pretty! I wonder what breed was used to get that coloring?

She is a frizzle naked neck, apparently with some type of lacing. We bought 7 random eggs online, and she was the only one to hatch.

 

[starri33]

Hi All, I've joined the NN lovers today. I need to get better pictures of them, but here they are in their travel crate.

 

[BlueBaby]

I need to get out there and take some recent pictures of mine. The NN's handled the heat the best over here during this past summer. A few of us over here in AZ. that have them are deciding to go strictly with the NN's now, and faze out our fully feathered neck flock members. I'd rather have a weird looking chicken, than one that will suffer in 118 F. temps.

 

[cactusrota]

@cactusrota, the NN that a circled kind of looks like my NN. I think she might be a crossbreed. What cross is that one?
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That's from crossing a blue splash boy I had with all the Bresse hens I had at the time. I got 11 out of 11 eggs set (the Bressse were always very fertile layers), 4 pullets and 7 cockerels. They hatched out with some Jersey Giant, BCM, and mix crosses that I set at the same time. Some came out solid white so far and some with color leakage and one blue cockerel with gold/birchen markings. I have 4 all white pullets from other Bresse crossings from last year too. I've sold the Bresse just a week or two ago and have only the crosses now.

 

[cactusrota]

So I've set aside an experimental pen for hopeful Naked Neck/Easter Eggers. Got my rooster that hatched from a blue egg, 3 Wheaten Marans I had gotten from Cackle hatchery last year, 1 black pure Ameraucana from a private breeder, and two other partridge NN hens. No idea if the rooster inherited the blue egg gene, just crossing my fingers. If he didn't then the offspring will all just lay various shades of brown except the Ameraucana's offspring should lay light green. If he DID inherit it, then I should get Olive eggers from the Marans, pure blue from the Ameraucana, and light green from the partridge NN's. The rooster and the NN hens all carry two copies of the NN gene, so I'm also hoping for some nearly clean necked NN offspring from them, too.
If anyone wants in on this experiment, I can start shipping eggs in a couple more weeks.
(best pics I could get as they kept moving around... )