Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

[steny03]

The dormant ovary (technically not an ovary but an ovatestis) in a hen, may, after a condition affecting her functioning ovary, cause changes in a hen, giving her male characteristics. She will not be able to reproduce as a rooster, and genetically she is still a hen, but her body is producing androgens, the male hormone. She won't lay eggs, either, so she lives in kind of a land betwixt and between - not really a hen anymore but not a rooster either. I thought that was so interesting when I read it.

Right, it's all about hormones. The hen is just producing more male hormones than female hormones. But she is still a hen even if she doesn't lay an egg. Nothing will change that. There is no 'in-between' stage for birds.

 

[heartsizedfarm]

The manager at the Tractor Supply store near me told me this recently. I asked what to feed them to get the green eggs (knowing that this is breed specific) he told me lots of leafy green veggies and kelp powder. I said "wow, my ladies get lots of leafy greens and they only lay various shades of brown eggs" he told me how lay green. I asked him what type if chickens he had? He tipped his head and said "hens". My husband poked me in the leg below the counter to keep me from countering. I simply said "oh!" And walked away. Yikes!!!!

Excellent self-control! I couldn't have done it!

 

[Crickett]

LOL!

 

[Bethel3330]

Hens cannot change sexes. They will always be biologically female. Hens may take on male features and roles, but they won't change sex.

hens will always retain what anatomically makes them hens but hormones can cause them to exhibit external male sex characteristics. In very rare instances a hen had also produced sperm but none that have done this have ever been documented siring any offspring, according to one source I found. I'm sorry I don't have the links handy but I did read this on a university website after it came up last week. It's definitely not typical! But pretty intriguing...

 

[subhanalah]

hens will always retain what anatomically makes them hens but hormones can cause them to exhibit external male sex characteristics. In very rare instances a hen had also produced sperm but none that have done this have ever been documented siring any offspring, according to one source I found. I'm sorry I don't have the links handy but I did read this on a university website after it came up last week. It's definitely not typical! But pretty intriguing...

it's also on the chicken documentary "secret lives or chickens" or was it "private lives of chickens"?

 

[Bethel3330]

it's also on the chicken documentary "secret lives or chickens" or was it "private lives of chickens"?

HAHAHA! I love that. Good one

 

[subhanalah]

HAHAHA! I love that. Good one

did you look it up on youtube? Have you seen it already?

 

[Bethel3330]

did you look it up on youtube? Have you seen it already?

nooo, I thought you were being funny! Is it really?

 

[subhanalah]

nooo, I thought you were being funny! Is it really?

yes, it is real. So...does anyone else see the irony of the name of this thread and the people in it laugh and haw about how a hen never turns to a rooster but the latest documentary on chickens says they do?

 

[Gryphon]

Well that's an extremely rare situation, not basic biology or common sense.