Gynandromorph Chicken

banditmommy581 said:

It only happens in certain animals too

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ltrader said:

Once upon a time, I had a chicken that looked like a rooster but never crowed and the other chickens treated it like a hen ( the roosters bred it ). I found it dead in the coop when it was maybe 9 months old, for no obvious reason, it was just laying in the corner. At the time I was thinking words like transgender, but didn't quite know what to call it. It looked like a regular rooster, maybe not as fully feathered and less tail feathering but nothing as strikingly different as earlier pics in this thread. Is this the sort of thing you are talking about, or was mine something different?

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BigDaddy'sGurl said:

my point is that it will probably not exactly fit into the social structure of a flock: rooster AND hen traits...would it be able to reproduce? I mean, just as I said, what is the point? Would it crow and then head to the nesting box? I can see breeding to produce meatier birds, better layers, etc...but a hermaphroditic bird? I repeat, with no offense intended at all just surprised that time is spent on studying this, what is the point?

And in response to "the waddler", without expounding on religion, I personally plan to leave as much "Godly" things to the Man himself, lol...I don't want to destroy myself...

please keep in mind that if this is a situation wherein these gynandromorph birds are popping up naturally and then being studied, my dissenting opinion is nil....it is if the birds are being intentionally genetically engineered this way that I don't understand or agree with.

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Illia said:

I think someone's mentioned this before, but I'm not surprised it did lay an egg - The brown coloring it carries on the left is female, the black coloring in the right is also quite likely female.

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Redcatcher said:

Well, we are not 100% certain what we are looking at now. I took this photo of it last night. It molted and new feathers are just starting to come in now. There are what appears to be male hackle feathers coming in. They are dense, hard and glossy like a male. You can see how heavy the hackle feathers are now and half of them are just pin feathers. There may be saddle and sickle feathers too. Just too early to tell. The other side is sort of a partridge columbian mix. At any rate, the hackle feathers do not appear to be 100% female to me.

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RadEggs said:

I think female-female divides are rare, but also probably can happen, from what I've heard.

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