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    The Naked Neck chicken breed is naturally devoid of feathers on its neck and vent. Despite its unusual appearance, it is a dual-purpose utility chicken bred for both egg and meat production. The naked neck trait is dominant and controlled by a single gene, making it easy to introduce into other breeds. Naked Necks are well-adapted to hot climates and easier to process due to reduced feathering.

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    The Naked Neck chicken breed is naturally devoid of feathers on its neck and vent. Despite its unusual appearance, it is a dual-purpose utility chicken bred for both egg and meat production. The naked neck trait is dominant and controlled by a single gene, making it easy to introduce into other breeds. Naked Necks are well-adapted to hot climates and easier to process due to reduced feathering.

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    The Naked Neck chicken breed is naturally devoid of feathers on its neck and vent. Despite its unusual appearance, it is a dual-purpose utility chicken bred for both egg and meat production. The naked neck trait is dominant and controlled by a single gene, making it easy to introduce into other breeds. Naked Necks are well-adapted to hot climates and easier to process due to reduced feathering.

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    Naked Neck

    The Naked Neck is a breed of chicken that is naturally Recognized color varieties include: black, white, cuckoo,
    devoid of feathers on its neck and vent.[1] The breed bu, red, and blue in the United Kingdom[5] and black,
    is also called the Transylvanian Naked Neck, as well white, bu, and red in the United States.[6][2]
    as the Turken. Originally from Transylvania and was
    largely developed in Germany. The name Turken arose
    from the mistaken idea that the bird was a hybrid of a 2 Naked-neck trait
    chicken and the domestic turkey. Naked Necks are fairly
    common in Europe today, but are rare in North Amer-
    The naked-neck trait which characterizes this breed is
    ica and very common in South America. The trait for a
    controlled by an incompletely dominant allele (Na) lo-
    naked neck is a dominant one controlled by one gene and
    cated near the middle of Chromosome 3.[7] Since this al-
    is fairly easy to introduce into other breeds,[4] however
    lele is dominant, individuals which are either homozygous
    these are hybrids rather than true Naked Necks, which
    dominant (Na/Na) or heterozygous (Na/na+) will exhibit
    is a breed recognized by the American Poultry Associa-
    the naked-neck characteristic though the heterozygous in-
    tion since 1965, it was introduced in Britain in the 1920s.
    dividual will exhibit less reduction in feathering - true
    There are other breeds of naked necked chicken, such as
    breeding members of the breed must then be homozygous
    the French naked neck, which is often confused with the
    dominant, and all individuals in the recognized breed
    Transylvanian, and the naked necked gamefowl.
    must be also. Individuals which are homozygous reces-
    sive (or wild type feathered) (na+/na+) would not exhibit
    any feather reduction characteristics of the Naked Necks
    1 Characteristics and, baring mutation, would be unable to pass that trait
    down.[8]
    Scientic studies have indicated that the naked-neck gene
    (Na) improves breast size and reduces heat stress in chick-
    ens of non-broiler breeds which are homozygous for the
    trait.[9] Additionally, in tropical climates if the naked-
    neck trait (Na) is bred into broiler strains it has been
    shown to facilitate lower body temperature, increased
    body weight gain, better Feed conversion ratios and
    carcass traits compared to normally feathered broilers.[10]

    3 See also

    Naked Neck chickens

    Despite its highly unusual appearance, the breed is not


    particularly known as an exhibition bird, and is a dual-
    purpose utility chicken. They lay a respectable number
    of light brown eggs, and are considered desirable for meat
    production because they need less plucking and they have
    a meaty body. They are very good foragers and are im-
    mune to most diseases. The breed is also reasonably cold
    hardy despite its lack of feathers. Naked Neck roosters
    carry a single comb, and the neck and head often be-
    come very bright red from increased sun exposure. This
    breed has approximately half the feathers of other chick- French Naked Neck hens in Italy
    ens, making it resistant to hot weather and easier to pluck.

    1
    2 4 REFERENCES

    List of chicken breeds

    American Poultry Association

    4 References
    [1] Carol Ekarius (2007). Storeys Illustrated Guide to Poul-
    try Breeds. North Adams, MA: Storey Publishing. ISBN
    9781580176682. p. 13435.

    [2] APA Recognized Breeds and Varieties as of January 1,


    2012. American Poultry Association. Accessed August
    2014.

    [3] Breed Classication. Poultry Club of Great Britain. Ac-


    cessed August 2014.

    [4] Turken Oklahoma State University Breeds of Live Stock

    [5] Breeds > Chickens > Naked Neck Omlet UK.

    [6] Naked Neck (Turken) My Pet Chicken Breed Pages.

    [7] Chromosome Linkages Poultry Genetics for Exhibition


    Breeders. Last updated: 13 Nov, 2008.

    [8] Chicken Mutations Poultry Genetics. Poultry Genetics for


    Exhibition Breeders. Last updated: 13 Nov, 2008.

    [9] Interactions between the naked neck gene, sex, and uc-
    tuating ambient temperature on heat tolerance, growth,
    body composition, meat quality, and sensory analysis of
    slow growing meat-type broilers. Livestock Science. Vol-
    ume 110, Issues 1-2, June 2007, Pages 33-45

    [10] Performance of naked neck versus normally feathered


    coloured broilers for growth, carcass traits and blood bio-
    chemical parameters in tropical climate PATRA B. N. ;
    BAIS R. K. S. ; PRASAD R. B. ; SINGH B. P. Asian-
    australasian journal of animal sciences: ISSN 1011-2367.
    2002, vol. 15, no12, pp. 1776-1783.

    Graham, Chris (2006). Choosing and Keeping


    Chickens. 2-4 Heron Quays London E14 4JP: Octo-
    pus Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7938-0601-0.

    Rossier, Jay (2002). Living with Chickens. Guilford,


    Connecticut: The Lyons Press. ISBN 1-59228-013-
    7.
    3

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