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So, if you hatch from a naked neck, does that automatically become the dominant trait or is it a guessing game until they are hatched?

The naked neck gene N is an incompletely dominant gene. That means that if a chicken has one copy of the gene, N/n+, they have a partial expression of it, and with two copies, N/N, they have a full expression of the trait. The most apparent difference between heterozygous N/n+ and homozygous N/N is generally the presence or absence of a tuft of feathers on the front of the neck called the 'bowtie' or 'bib'. Homozygous individuals usually lack this tuft. The catch is that sometimes homozygous individuals have a small bowtie as well, while in heterozygous individuals it can vary from a small tuft to almost the entire front of the neck being feathered.

So with Gwenyth, since she does have a naked neck but none of my roosters do, hatching her eggs would mean at least half of her chicks would also be naked necks, inheriting the naked neck gene N from her and a fully feathered gene n+ from their father. The other half would be more of a guessing game. I believe she's heterozygous N/n+ for naked neck because she does have a little bowtie tuft and she also isn't as bare on the face as I recall homozygous individuals being, but her bowtie is also rather small so I'm not 100% confident in that. But if I am correct, then the other half of her chicks would be fully feathered, having inherited n+ from both her and their father.

I watch a YouTube channel called Chickenlandia. I just love that lady she's so nice and also not pretentious. Anyway, she just got a bantam naked neck. It looks like an oegb with a naked neck. It is so cute.

I'll have to check out that channel! That sounds super cute! Maybe they are OEGB mixes

While there is a standardized Naked Neck breed, the vast majority of naked neck chickens out there, especially from hatcheries, are more akin to mixes that have the naked neck trait, kind of like how many hatcheries sell their Easter-eggers as Ameraucanas even though they're not really the same thing, or I guess more akin to that you can have a frizzle Cochin but you can also have a mix with frizzled feathers. Gwenyth, for example, is a bantam with a naked neck, but she does not have the appropriate traits for a true Naked Neck bantam, so she's more than likely just a mutt with the naked neck trait.

I guess Flury wanted to change things up a bit

Haha, I guess so! After 8 years of the same, I suppose she's allowed to switch up her wardrobe

 

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Day 4 picture of the day was kind of a tough pick! But I think that this one's the winner: Vega with her OEGB trademark bitty banty eyes in full use! Don't look too closely at this one or you'll be hypnotized into giving in to her every whim!

Our runners up are a picture of gorgeous Freia:

And a Fifi goofy bird:

You'll notice in the background of both of those runner up pictures that Rangi noticed me hunched over and started to make a beeline toward me around the tree. She doesn't care about pictures, she just wanted to have a lap to sit on

 

[2ndTink]

Vega is definitely captivating

A lap sitter, how adorable! Mine like to fly on my back and leave foot prints all over my shirt

 

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Some of mine do that as well! A lot of them will sit either next to me or on my lap any chance they get, though. And some just want to come up behind me and jab at my back repeatedly while I'm sitting out there.

 

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Some of mine do that as well! A lot of them will sit either next to me or on my lap any chance they get, though. And some just want to come up behind me and jab at my back repeatedly while I'm sitting out there.

Hubby's cockerel has recently decided I'm a nice place for a rest, I was taking photos of the chickens and he hopped on up and cozied down against my neck. Pretty cute.

 

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Thanks for the Naked neck lesson.

I just love your pics. Gorgeous birds as always.

 

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Day 5 picture of the day, we're giving it to good old Rangi. I tried to get a picture of her snug against me, but the camera would not focus on her no matter what I did, so I stood up and grabbed this shot. She then stood here like this for around 20 minutes, just waiting on me to sit back down with her after I'd finished putting out the feed and getting everyone set up for the day. She's definitely a people chicken

Runners up today, here's the morning's feed rush in the pan into which I put the leftovers from the previous day.

And a shot of Ganymede the wicked, who... actually has become rather mild in her adulthood.

 

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In other news, ugh, I'm rather sad. I think that that last Judy egg has given up the ghost.

I'd mentioned that it was under Inara and she'd abandoned it a while back to sit on the eggs in the laying box. After that, I'd moved it under the other broody, Morena, but the two of them have been swapping nests back and forth this whole time, so it ended up under Inara again anyway. Well, yesterday Inara did it again. She abandoned her nest to sit on the golf ball that I had put in the laying boxes a week ago to entice the other girls into laying there instead of trying to lay in the broody nests.

I candled the two developing eggs last night after once again moving them under Morena, and I did see some faint movement in them both after Morena had warmed them up a little bit. But this morning I don't see any movement in the Judy egg, and I feel like the veining doesn't look as good as it did... but I'm not 100% sure there. I left it under Morena just in case, but I don't know if it's going to keep going. If it doesn't, then Inara's got a ticket straight to broody jail because I don't think she'll share the single chick left developing with Morena.

I do have a Blue pullet and a Splash cockerel I know for sure are out of Judy, so at least I have some part of her that can stick around, but I was kind of hoping for just one more little Judy booty. Oh, well.

 

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Day 5 picture of the day, we're giving it to good old Rangi. I tried to get a picture of her snug against me, but the camera would not focus on her no matter what I did, so I stood up and grabbed this shot. She then stood here like this for around 20 minutes, just waiting on me to sit back down with her after I'd finished putting out the feed and getting everyone set up for the day. She's definitely a people chicken

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Runners up today, here's the morning's feed rush in the pan into which I put the leftovers from the previous day.

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And a shot of Ganymede the wicked, who... actually has become rather mild in her adulthood.

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Oh, Rangi, what a sweet bird!

Ganymede looks sort of like my new one. Only with a nicer face. Mine is sweet though, but looks like she means to do some harm.

 

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Ganymede looks sort of like my new one. Only with a nicer face. Mine is sweet though, but looks like she means to do some harm.

She does look similar! Ganymede is a Silkie x EE mix, not sure if you know what your girl's mix is?

As for her sweet face, it depends on the angle. She has a pretty mean mug when you look at her just right

And she used to have a temperament to match! Thankfully, she's chilled out a bit. Now she's just skitterish and hates people from a distance.