Mutation 3 - Neck Crest (= Chunagon) - this mutation causes the feathers in the back of the neck to point toward the top of the head. It must be linked in someway to bonten since you can never get this neck phenotype without also having the crested head. So, all chunagons have both a bonten and the neck frill. Recently, birds with just the back of the neck frill and not the top of the head frill have been recovered, possibly an indication that linkage has been broken. Images of Chunagon (none yet available) |
