Bizarre chicken feathering

[Chicks Galore3]

One of my production reds decided it wanted to become a speckled sussex! When she molted her feathers grew in all speckled:

PR On top SS on bottom. Have any of you ever seen this? Why could have cause this? She's almost 2.

 

[PeepersMama]

Whoa that's cool looking! As long as she's acting fine (eating, drinking, being silly

) then I wouldn't worry.
oo oo oo oo oo!!!!! Look up spontaneous sex reversal! It's where a hen starts looking and acting like a rooster, and it's SUPER rare!!!
BUT it will only be that /\ if she is a sex-linking hybrid of some sort, because red sex-link roos are white/cream. I haven't heard of a PR being sold as a RSL, but you never know. I heard a story of a mostly white EE that molted into a million shades of orange, acted like a rooster, but next molt, turned white again

It's really cool.

 

[Chicks Galore3]

Woooooah that's interesting!! I got her from the brown egg later bin from TSC so she could be a RSL.
She acting fine and dandy, so that's all good.

 

[PeepersMama]

This is the coolest thing I have ever "seen"

Except for the emu that got loose in the field across the road from us - THAT was pretty cool.

ETA: If she does start crowing and being all manly and stuff, maybe shoot your state vet lab an e-mail?