Have a bi-chicken?

[MoEggers]

Just curious if anyone else has had or knew someone else who has had a bi-sexual chicken? I have a Hen+- that has laid a few fertilized eggs and sometimes tries to crow. Anybody? Should I call Ripely's?

 

[ikoCRO]

Just curious if anyone else has had or knew someone else who has had a bi-sexual chicken? I have a Hen+- that has laid a few fertilized eggs and sometimes tries to crow. Anybody? Should I call Ripely's?

OMG what nonsense I can read here!
Homo/trans/bi... sexualities do not exist in the animal world!
I know that I will immediately be labeled as a homophobe, but I am only telling the truth and it has nothing to do with homophobia!
In the animal world there are various disorders in sexuality and it has nothing to do with human sexual orientation!
No, there are no bisexual chickens!

 

[NatJ]

Just curious if anyone else has had or knew someone else who has had a bi-sexual chicken? I have a Hen+- that has laid a few fertilized eggs and sometimes tries to crow. Anybody? Should I call Ripely's?

Crowing hens do happen sometimes.

Sometimes it's caused by a hormone problem, so the hen also grows male feathers and no longer lays eggs.

But sometimes the hen will be perfectly normal except for the crowing. It's not rare enough to be worth calling Ripely's about.

You mention "fertilized" eggs-- I assume there is also a rooster present?
Or if there is no rooster, what makes you think the eggs are fertile?

 

[azygous]

Some hens crow and still behave 100% like hens. I've had several in my flock, a few doing a very credible imitation of a crow.

Just as some of us humans can sport secondary sexual characteristics of the opposite sex such as dark fuzz on the upper lip of a woman and a high voice in a man, it doesn't necessarily mean that it affects mating habits.

Many hens have spurs, too. All my hens with spurs, around four at last count, all lay eggs regularly and do not appear to favor mating the other girls.

The moral - do not be fooled by superficial sexual characteristics. They are mostly there to prove Nature doesn't take things nearly as seriously as we humans often do.

I'd like to address the post by @ikoCRO . No, it is not nonsense that all living creatures on this planet are capable of sexual overlap and gender fluidity. Documented famous gay penguins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_and_Silo are definitely not nonsense. What is nonsense is that sexual diversity among humans is some sort of moral issue. It's simply how a human (or animal) is constructed during gestation along with eye color and general skeletal build.

 

[MoEggers]

Just curious if anyone else has had or knew someone else who has had a bi-sexual chicken? I have a Hen+- that has laid a few fertilized eggs and sometimes tries to crow. Anybody? Should I call Ripely's?

Well I see now posting here was a mistake, it WAS an honest question. I shall retract it. She was laying eggs that had a red spot/Vien and/or the dot that in any other egg, makes them fertile. No I don't have a rooster, since this bird is a cross I'm guessing it's just a freak of nature. I think I will just put a few of the "special eggs" into the incubator and see what happens, after all that's where she came from. Thanks for the entertainment.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Well I see now posting here was a mistake, it WAS an honest question. I shall retract it. She was laying eggs that had a red spot/Vien and/or the dot that in any other egg, makes them fertile. No I don't have a rooster, since this bird is a cross I'm guessing it's just a freak of nature. I think I will just put a few of the "special eggs" into the incubator and see what happens, after all that's where she came from. Thanks for the entertainment.

If you mean a spot like a bit of tissue, then that's a meat spot. It's nothing but a bit of meat from the reproduction tract that gets swept along into the egg as its made.

The bullseye isn't 110% accurate. It works for most people, but some without roosters say their eggs also have them

 

[NatJ]

Well I see now posting here was a mistake, it WAS an honest question. I shall retract it.

No need to retract your question. Since you DO have a hen that crows, it was certainly reasonable to ask about her!

She was laying eggs that had a red spot/Vien and/or the dot that in any other egg, makes them fertile. No I don't have a rooster, since this bird is a cross I'm guessing it's just a freak of nature. I think I will just put a few of the "special eggs" into the incubator and see what happens, after all that's where she came from. Thanks for the entertainment.

A red spot does not tell whether an egg is fertile. It can happen in any egg.

Crossing breeds of chickens usually does not cause anything weird.

Yes, incubating the eggs is a great way to see if they really can develop.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I have two hens, both of which crow all the time. (They’re confirmed hens as they’ve laid eggs.) Since your chicken still lays eggs, it sounds like she isn’t going through a sex change.

 

[azygous]

Well I see now posting here was a mistake, it WAS an honest question. I shall retract it. She was laying eggs that had a red spot/Vien and/or the dot that in any other egg, makes them fertile. No I don't have a rooster, since this bird is a cross I'm guessing it's just a freak of nature. I think I will just put a few of the "special eggs" into the incubator and see what happens, after all that's where she came from. Thanks for the entertainment.

All questions asked in good faith are most welcome here. It's how we are able to share interesting information and everyone often then learns something they didn't know before.

When I began posting on BYC thirteen years ago, I asked a similar question about a Brahma hen that absolutely would not tolerate being mated by the rooster and I was wondering if she was gay. I would like to think BYC has become a more open forum to discuss such topics as my post was first ridiculed by a moderator who pointed out "animals are not capable of such moral depravity" and then my thread was removed.

There are as many documented cases of homosexual behavior in animals as there are in the human species. The gay happens to pop up regularly in my family so I have seen first hand how it is definitely not a moral issue but a biological one. It angers me that there still persists this notion of homosexuality being depraved in our culture in view of people now being targeted and slaughtered over this misguided attitude. It has to stop. I intend not to remain silent whatever it costs.

 

[ikoCRO]

I'd like to address the post by @ikoCRO . No, it is not nonsense that all living creatures on this planet are capable of sexual overlap and gender fluidity. Documented famous gay penguins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_and_Silo are definitely not nonsense. What is nonsense is that sexual diversity among humans is some sort of moral issue. It's simply how a human (or animal) is constructed during gestation along with eye color and general skeletal build.

Wrong again!
Although I am not fully familiar with the case of "gay" penguins, reading on Wikipedia I see that you have fallen into the trap of misinterpreting sexuality in animals.
In that case the two males Roy and Silo maintained a "homosexual" relationship.
Such "homosexual" relationships are common in the animal world, only because there are not enough partners of the opposite sex in the herd.
The urge to reproduce makes them behave this way.
There is never any penetration (khm,khm..you know what). no sexual pleasure! A very important point when comparing human and "animal homosexuality".
If a free partner of the opposite sex appears in the herd, the "homosexual" relationship stops and the "homosexual" animal enters into a relationship with the opposite sex.
Later, Silo the penguin found a female Scrappy and became heterosexual!