Naked Neck/Turken Thread

[draye]

It needs to warm up. I'm needing to get out and take so e pictures of the new babies before they are no longer babies.

 

[redrooster99]

Do EE x nacked necks have beards?

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Do EE x nacked necks have beards?

This is my ee/nn

 

[draye]

Do EE x nacked necks have beards?

The ones I have now do not have the beards. I've had a batch before that I never kept any from some of them got beards. I think it all comes down to what lines are bring used int the make up of them.

 

[ochochicas]

My EE/turken has no feathers on his "chin" or neck, so there is no beard. Is that pretty standard?

 

[kristin07035]

Hey does anyone have a NN frizzle? If so, I'd like to see a picture of it.

this is a little roo i hatched hes 1/2 nn & 1/2 cochin

 

[Kev]

My EE/turken has no feathers on his "chin" or neck, so there is no beard. Is that pretty standard?

It's very variable. Can be anything like yours to more obvious presence, usually more like sideburns.

One factor involved with EE is the pea comb gene. It has a side effect of reducing number of feathers on a bird. It's even observable from hatch on chicks having both pea comb and NN- naked pattern around the face/beak and sometimes two parallel areas on the back. It probably makes it harder for beard to show up on a pea combed NN for this reason.

Both naked neck and beard are dominant but they also have a "dose effect"- birds pure for NN are more naked, birds pure for beards have fuller beards than their not pure beard siblings(beard size is also variable as in you can breed for size of them).

If beards is desired, breed them with very large full beards, breed a bearded NN cross back to a bearded bird or breed two beard/NN crosses together to hit on the pure beardeds amongst the NN.

Here's a NN with fantastic beard. Notice she has a single comb which probably helps with a fuller beard vs pea comb: http://cdn.backyardchickens.com/8/8f/8f1e095e_26636_100_3314.jpeg

 

[hildar]

It's very variable. Can be anything like yours to more obvious presence, usually more like sideburns.

One factor involved with EE is the pea comb gene. It has a side effect of reducing number of feathers on a bird. It's even observable from hatch on chicks having both pea comb and NN- naked pattern around the face/beak and sometimes two parallel areas on the back. It probably makes it harder for beard to show up on a pea combed NN for this reason.

Both naked neck and beard are dominant but they also have a "dose effect"- birds pure for NN are more naked, birds pure for beards have fuller beards than their not pure beard siblings(beard size is also variable as in you can breed for size of them).

If beards is desired, breed them with very large full beards, breed a bearded NN cross back to a bearded bird or breed two beard/NN crosses together to hit on the pure beardeds amongst the NN.

Here's a NN with fantastic beard. Notice she has a single comb which probably helps with a fuller beard vs pea comb: http://cdn.backyardchickens.com/8/8f/8f1e095e_26636_100_3314.jpeg

I love that beard. Mine has only small beards. Or at least a few of them do but that big beard is awesome. I love it.

 

[Kev]

I love that beard. Mine has only small beards. Or at least a few of them do but that big beard is awesome. I love it.

Isn't she fantastic? Would really love to see a bird genetically pure for big beard like that and NN.....

 

[AmyLynn2374]

It's very variable. Can be anything like yours to more obvious presence, usually more like sideburns.

One factor involved with EE is the pea comb gene. It has a side effect of reducing number of feathers on a bird. It's even observable from hatch on chicks having both pea comb and NN- naked pattern around the face/beak and sometimes two parallel areas on the back. It probably makes it harder for beard to show up on a pea combed NN for this reason.

Both naked neck and beard are dominant but they also have a "dose effect"- birds pure for NN are more naked, birds pure for beards have fuller beards than their not pure beard siblings(beard size is also variable as in you can breed for size of them).

If beards is desired, breed them with very large full beards, breed a bearded NN cross back to a bearded bird or breed two beard/NN crosses together to hit on the pure beardeds amongst the NN.

Here's a NN with fantastic beard. Notice she has a single comb which probably helps with a fuller beard vs pea comb: http://cdn.backyardchickens.com/8/8f/8f1e095e_26636_100_3314.jpeg

I look at that bird and I see Abraham Lincoln.... I can't help it....lol