What color is this?

[Sonoran Silkies]

Would it be lavender?

Not with lacing. The turken chick looks like it will be black, not blue. The blue chick seems to have a fully feathered neck? Were the parents het for naked neck?​

 

[Chef]

It's not a silkie. It should be an orp.

Thanks
Chef

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

You have about 4 different things that can be going on here.

First, if these birds came from a feathered neck to naked neck breeding, as I understand it 50% will be NN and the other 50% will have regular feathered necks.

Second, if these birds came from true andalusian blue breeding birds, you could end up with blue/black/splash chicks.

So with all of this in the mix, technically you could get a black naked neck chick, from the same breeding that produced a regular feathered blue chick.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Okay, I'm confused--first you say the blue chick should have been a blue turken and the black chick is supposed to be a blue turken? Then you say the blue is an orp? Clearly I am missing something. I never said anything about the chick being a silkie; it obviously isn't.

If turkey parents are het for the naked neck gene, 1/4 of their offspring will have feahered necks, 1/4 will be pure for naked neck and half will be het. If one parent is het and one is hom, the percentages will change, but the outcome choices won't. If both parents are hom for naked neck all chicks should have naked necks.

Back to blue. It is incompletely dominant; if both parents are blue, 1/4 of the offspring will be diluted to splash (BlBl--hom. blue), 1/2 will be diluted to blue (Blbl) and 1/4 will be undiluteds: not-blue (which equates to being black).

 

[Chef]

Sorry for the confusion. Ok hear's the deal. I bought a dozen eggs that were supposed to be all blue turkens. I hatched out four of those eggs. I got 2 turkens, 1 black orp, and the blue chick. The reason I am asking is the turkens are supposed to be blue but they look nothing like the one that actually looks blue. Did I get black turkens?

Chef

 

[Year of the Rooster]

Maybe you got some BBS Turkens?

 

[nzpouter]

most likely your eggs come from a pair of blue het naked neck..

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Yep: blue (Blbl+), het naked neck (Na,na+)

The blue is Blbl,na+na+; the black is blbl,Na- (not sure if it's het or hom for Na)

Why do you say the blue is an orp?

 

[glowworm]

I bought eggs from the same seller. On his hatching egg ads, he said he "created" a blue turken by crossing a blue orp rooster with black and red turkens, and his current breeding stock (all blue and NN) was what he came up with.

So, in my hatch from the eggs from him, I wasn't surprised that I got a couple chicks without feathers on their necks, because I knew they had orp in their background.

I also knew that I would get black, blue, and splash chicks, because he bred blue to blue. You get 25% black 50% blue and 25% splash when you breed blue to blue.

 

[Chef]

So what does that mean that I have? What is really crazy is that I had a chick that needed help hatching out but didn't end up making it. It was a white naked neck! I am really confused on what is going on here. I am not to hip on the genetic stuff yet. Please help me figure this out.

Edit: I guess the white could be splash huh???

Chef