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[pips&peeps]

No, it could have both female and male hormones; hermaphrodite.

 

[pips&peeps]

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Jean that isn't just a weird winged female, look at the back.

I see silver saddle feathers. How old was the bird in the photos? Did she end up laying eggs? Perhaps she's a he-she?

John got rid of it, it continued to mature with both the male and female sex feathers. I don't know how old it was. This was in 09.

 

[jeremy]

pips&peeps :

No, it could have both female and male hormones; hermaphrodite.

Does that happen in the chicken world???

So... this is a special bird then?

I wonder if it will crow?​

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Does that happen in the chicken world???

So... this is a special bird then?

I wonder if it will crow?

Yep it does. I've even heard of Faverolles that have been half male feathered and half female feathered.

 

[Illia]

Bravo - Ah okay, so then you've got 1/2 duckwing 1/2 Wheaten birds. You've bred out most if not all of the Leghorn color, and are left with Duckwing and Wheaten. Unless you're getting mostly white birds in there too, you're rid of the Leghorn color traits. What is left is blue, duckwing, wheaten, and gold vs silver.

You will indeed get sexual dimorphism though. The males will look like either BBR or Wheaten since both are nearly identical, the females indeed will vary a little but mostly be a Buff to Brown type color with gold and black tickling in the hackles.



Jeremy - Gynadomorph chickens are becoming more and more common, so I'm sure hermaphrodites will be too. It may actually be the soy, who knows. It depends honestly on your beliefs in anti-GMO Soy or not.

Pips&peeps - Honestly I would've hung onto it for a little longer just out of curiousity. That's one fascinating bird. Poor thing though, wonder what it looked like internally.





Well, just to mention my freakish feather-shanked Buff x Wheatens again, I looked at the comb of one of them real closely and it seems quite improper for a pea comb, so who knows, I may be and honestly hopefully am wrong about my Marans jumping the fence. . . Time will tell. If I see tall pea combs or blue to platinum in the feathers of them as they mature, I know that's the issue.

I know fence jumpers is NOT a good thing but I'd rather have that than a feather-legged issue with my Buff male or Wheaten females. I'm not selling eggs from this pairing anyway, so as long as I'm the one receiving mutts all is good. The boys' area is now "jump" proof so there's no more of that, and I'm sure my next batch in another 10 days will show it.

 

[cackleberrycoop]

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Has anyone opened up one of these hermaphrodites? I heard a judge once talking about her bird who had won a bunch of shows as a rooster - molted, then started laying eggs. What in the world? I would love to know what's up internally.

 

[chickendales]

pips&peeps :

Here is a couple pictures of John's weird silver from a couple years back:

http://www.ameraucana.org/abcforum/index.php?a=topic&s=attach&id=579
http://www.ameraucana.org/abcforum/index.php?a=topic&s=attach&id=582
http://www.ameraucana.org/abcforum/index.php?a=topic&s=attach&id=580

this look like one his silver to black breeding to improve size on the silvers​

 

[chickendales]

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she pretty

 

[Illia]

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this look like one his silver to black breeding to improve size on the silvers

. . . . What? I didn't understand that.


Silver x Black just makes a black bird with slight silver leakage in the neck in females and in the shoulders too in males, as duckwing is recessive to solid black.

 

[SteveH]

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I'm curious as to why you think that to be the case.

ETA; That was poorly worded........................ What makes you think gynadomorphs are becoming more commom and why hermaphrodites will be?