I believe I have a hermaphrodite chicken

[CityFarmerRob]

Okay I just tried again

Please let me know if you can see it

 

[CityFarmerRob]

Ok

Okay, technically - not my forte. Let me see what I can do

This is not the whole file, I'm still working on it. But you can see where it comes from, I believe it's in OSU website

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Nothing at all is showing up

 

[CityFarmerRob]

Please let me know if you can see it

 

[CityFarmerRob]

Okay I just tried again again, tell me if this is the whole thing please

 

[McChooky]

Nope notta nothing yet lol

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Has there ever been a chicken documented to have both ovaries and testes? I've had hens with dominant rooster behavior, spurs and scythe tail feathers... but they laid eggs. I have an American Bresse pullet right now that my wife swears is a rooster- she even crows and mounts her pen mates- but her little bitty new-layer eggs betray her gender.

Honestly, that sounds pretty normal to me. Hens will mount each other for dominance, and I have multiple crowing hens right now. Spurs and curved tail feathers aren’t specific to roosters.

 

[Coops Dad]

Honestly, that sounds pretty normal to me. Hens will mount each other for dominance, and I have multiple crowing hens right now. Spurs and curved tail feathers aren’t specific to roosters.

This latest one is the third I've had in five years. She's a fierce b-word, too. She's quick to round up her penmates and put herself between them and our dogs when they're out together.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Well considering that nearly every single baby chick I try to save from some malady ends up being a Roo, I am jumping on the "chickens can spontaneously change sex" bandwagon and think they are doing it out of spite for losing their comfy digs....

 

[SimpleJenn]

You know, in the 90s I had a childhood cat that was a hermaphrodite. When they were given to me they were visually a female, we named her Purrl. Then later "her" testicles descended and visually they were mixed! Purrl acted like a fixed male cat, never sprayed or went into heat. Unfortunately they got distemper and had to be put down.