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CityFarmerRob
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- Aug 25, 2023
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When I first came here with this, I wasn't sure if what I thought happened actually did. And really my curiosity has been satisfied, not so much with Vic, but now I know that there is such a thing as "sex reversal" and that really blows me away. And yeah from what I've gathered from what I've been able to find out and from what the veterinarian told me that these cases all say that they start out as hens and then later take on the characteristics of a rooster and there is nothing that I have found that says that a rooster can revert to a hen. But I've also read / heard about birds that this happens to and they do sometimes lay one or more eggs, but never many. And like I said I just find this all very fascinating!A barred hen can only pass the barred gene down to her sons which proves Vick is a rooster (I don't know of any cases of a rooster becoming a hen and/or laying eggs)