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In case you want a four legged chicken...

post #1 of 15
3/6/12 at 12:12pm
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You can now apparently buy them:

 

http://austin.craigslist.org/grd/2887919242.html

-Jenna
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post #2 of 15
3/6/12 at 12:26pm

The link goes to a post that's removed.

I'd rather be chickening...
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post #3 of 15
3/6/12 at 12:37pm
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Uh oh. I pull it up fine, but maybe it's broken somewhere since posting it? Oh well. Thanks for the heads up!

-Jenna
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post #4 of 15
3/6/12 at 12:42pm

link works fine for me... freaky... 

That this universe, in all it's infinite wonder, simply is, that it exists at all, is good enough for me. In my eyes, to say that something had to "create" it, to make it what it is, only succeeds to cheapen the experience, to make it less special. 

 

 

 

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That this universe, in all it's infinite wonder, simply is, that it exists at all, is good enough for me. In my eyes, to say that something had to "create" it, to make it what it is, only succeeds to cheapen the experience, to make it less special. 

 

 

 

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post #5 of 15
3/6/12 at 12:44pm

There was a three legged chicken hatched to a member here one year. I forgot the details though. Defects can happen in individuals resulting in extra limbs, often these embryos don't survive to adult hood, but a few do. 

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post #6 of 15
3/6/12 at 12:50pm
Thread Starter 

Oh good!

Yea it definitely caught my eye. Figured it was maybe a double yolker and the one got absorbed into the other. Interesting for sure! I wonder how old it is.

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post #7 of 15
3/6/12 at 12:53pm
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Uh oh. I pull it up fine, but maybe it's broken somewhere since posting it? Oh well. Thanks for the heads up!



If you can still pull it up ~ can you copy & quote it for the rest of us to see?

~ Julie ~


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~ Julie ~


If Timmy had a German Shepherd he wouldn't have been in the well in the first place.

Ameraucanas, FBCMs, BOs, BLRW, EEs, bantam Cochins, Black Australorps, Speckled Sussex, Rhode Island Reds, White leghorns, and Bobwhite Quail.   1 Beagle, 2 German Shepherd Dogs, 1 cat, lots of honeybees,  2 grown daughters and a very handy and understanding husband!

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post #8 of 15
3/6/12 at 3:36pm

It wouldn't be a double yolker to cause a defect like that. Embryos can't asorb each other. Often extra limbs and digits are due to developmental defects involving the hox code, which is a set of highly conserved patterning genes, first identified in flies. 

 

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Believe it or not I have a 4 legged chicken for sale. I have no clue what it's worth. I will leave this post up till Saturday and the highest bidder will get it. This is no hoax. Good luck 



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ETA: Old thread on three legged chicken: http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/50555/tripod-update-pic-pg-21-may-try-intros-today/0_100

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2011 Coop build! Click Here!

 

I'm no expert, there is always something to learn, and my birds are livestock, so... yes, I may be quite blunt. wink.png

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post #9 of 15
3/6/12 at 7:01pm
Thread Starter 

Ahh Haha I assumed it's kinda like my Gma who has a small pair of ribs attached to hers from absorbing her twin. But very neat info! Still wouldn't buy it...might scare the kids.

 

-Jenna
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-Jenna
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post #10 of 15
3/7/12 at 9:11am
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Originally Posted by Supermommy486 View Post

Ahh Haha I assumed it's kinda like my Gma who has a small pair of ribs attached to hers from absorbing her twin. But very neat info! Still wouldn't buy it...might scare the kids.

 

If I'm thinking right, your Gma would have been a result of a monozygotic twin; they have identical DNA and did start as one or fused at a a blastocyst or earlier stage. A double yolker  would be a fraternal or dizygotic twin which do not share identical DNA. Identical/conjoined twins could occur in an egg, but it'd be a single yolk. 

 

 

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2011 Coop build! Click Here!

 

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