Chicken with 2 cloacas

[PippinTheChicken]

Whoa
I'm def following

 

[Will-it-be farm]

Very

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0372554517326032

Thank you so much for sharing this! Very interesting article. The chicken noted had 1 normal sized cloaca and a smaller one below and to the left. The second cloaca dead ended and was not attached to the intestines.

My girl is a bit different, she has 2 equal sized cloacas side by side. I know the university will be interested, but I am not willing to let them kill her for more information. We might have to wait out her life cycle (so long as she remains healthy) before we get any answers.

 

[PippinTheChicken]

 

[3KillerBs]

 

[FloorCandy]

I am so interested in this, I’m going to watch the thread. I hope the university will do some non invasive testing on your chicken, I wonder if one is a dead end, or if there’s a crazy scientific answer like both ovaries developed. I wonder how functional the extra is, does it dead end, does it go to some malformed ovary, so many questions.

 

[PippinTheChicken]

I am so interested in this, I’m going to watch the thread. I hope the university will do some non invasive testing on your chicken, I wonder if one is a dead end, or if there’s a crazy scientific answer like both ovaries developed. I wonder how functional the extra is, does it dead end, does it go to some malformed ovary, so many questions.

Maybe one leads to narnia? XD

 

[PippinTheChicken]

Maybe one leads to narnia? XD

In all seriousness, though, this thread is very interesting

 

[CluckerFamily]

Very interesting!!

 

[NatJ]

We might have to wait out her life cycle (so long as she remains healthy) before we get any answers.

I agree that some answers would have to wait until she's dead, but you can probably figure out most of it with a bit of watching.

For example, if she only poops from one, then the other is probably not connected to the digestive system.

And if she's laying (which is pretty easy to check by putting her in an individual cage for a few days), then the eggs probably all come from one of them. If you see her laying, you'll know which.

I've read of people putting food coloring in a hen's vent to learn which eggs that hen is laying, and I'm guessing that with two colors you could know which cloaca of this hen does the laying.

I wonder if it's more likely that one poops and the other lays, or that one does both and the other does nothing, or if they connect to each other somewhere inside

Definitely interesting!

 

[dennisma1]

It’s hard to tell. When I blew lightly on them with both contracted. I have emailed the university of Guelph to see if they can any information on the topic.

I found her in a laying box this morning so I will infer that she can lay.
I was thinking of putting a camera in the box to see if it can capture anything.
I have done a lot of googling and there has been only one other case in recent history.
We are now calling her double-double (all you Canadians out there will get that reference)

Wow that is pretty amazing!