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  1. Chicalina

    I believe I have a hermaphrodite chicken

    Hurrah for @AusHen for figuring out the obvious answer and what I and everyone else had missed! A prize should be given! 🏆 I'm rather relieved the mystery has been solved, because I like certainty. Even though OP prefers the open possibilities more. I must say that I have particularly...
  2. Chicalina

    I believe I have a hermaphrodite chicken

    Unless I've missed something, chickens are not turtles. They are chromosomal sex determined animals, not temperature. I googled and found this from 1997 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/a-drop-in-temperature-can-change-the-sex-of-chickens-1238516.html Which I thought was BS, and I found this...
  3. Chicalina

    I believe I have a hermaphrodite chicken

    So, as I and others predicted. The vet didn't really tell you anything you didn't know already. That you have what looks like a rooster. I'm sorry you paid $170 for that.
  4. Chicalina

    I believe I have a hermaphrodite chicken

    I can't bear the suspense any more. 🙈
  5. Chicalina

    I believe I have a hermaphrodite chicken

    To save my internet browser history from getting even more weird, I'm going to stop myself from googling cat genitalia photos to see what you are talking about! 😂 So I'll take your word for it. 😁 Glad you had a lovely cat as a child to get attached to. Everyone should have one. I remember the...
  6. Chicalina

    I believe I have a hermaphrodite chicken

    That's not a hermaphrodite. He was a male cat who, depending on his age, had either normal or delayed testicular descent. Not all male cats spray, or may do only outside the home where you don't see them do it. Sorry to hear he got distemper.
  7. Chicalina

    I believe I have a hermaphrodite chicken

    Also agreeing with what others have said about this eggshell. Different colour to the first one you posted and dry as anything. No chicken can lick up all the gooey egg white from a broken egg so it's clean and dry. Who or what put that shell there? 💯 put a camera there if you are not...
  8. Chicalina

    I believe I have a hermaphrodite chicken

    We don't want that! Too many people invested in hearing the outcome! I do hope your vet is a proper poultry vet, because in my experience generalist vets know less about chickens than someone new to this forum learns in an hour of browsing threads. The only real way of determining sex is to do...
  9. Chicalina

    I believe I have a hermaphrodite chicken

    Can you put a trail camera ON the rooster and his pen? Entirely likely you'll catch a rat, snake, possum or something paying visits. Or move the rooster somewhere else and see if the eggs still keep appearing near him? Also have you double and triple checked your main hen flock pen and coop to...
  10. Chicalina

    I believe I have a hermaphrodite chicken

    Can you bring the rooster indoors in a secure dog crate for a week or so and see if "he" lays anything else, in a situation where a hen cannot possibly sneak in to visit him?
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