Have a bi-chicken?

[sdm111]

Pretty entertaining thread thanks for starting it
For the record I have both crowing and spurred hens. But act as normal hens

 

[azygous]

Here is a documented case by a BYC member of her androgynous chicken. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/i-have-an-androgynous-chicken.1504007/ She suspected this for years, and had her suspicions confirmed with a DNA test after the bird died.

My hens that crowed did so in spite of, or maybe because of, two crowing roosters in the flock. I concluded they crowed for one of the same reasons roosters crow, because they liked the way they sounded.

One was a Speckled Sussex and she would crow every morning and I literally could not tell her crow from the roosters, she was that proficient. A had a Cream Legbar hen who was also extremely accurate in her rendition. Other hens have briefly crowed, I suppose to prove to the flock and me that they could.

 

[Hayden Goseek]

Pretty entertaining thread thanks for starting it
For the record I have both crowing and spurred hens. But act as normal hens

We have also had hens adopt a protective / defensive attitude toward predators, sprout spurs and crow when there were no roosters around.

 

[Sammster]

I have heard about crowing hens. I sometimes get the spots inside my girls' eggs. It was not a mistake to post your question. You're OK, no worries! ♡

 

[NatJ]

Here is a documented case by a BYC member of her androgynous chicken. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/i-have-an-androgynous-chicken.1504007/ She suspected this for years, and had her suspicions confirmed with a DNA test after the bird died.

Thanks for posting that link. I had tried to find it, but didn't remember it in enough detail to search successfully.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

When I wrote those posts, I was thinking about normal conditions in the animal world.
Life in captivity for any animal is simply not natural and animals are subject to various disorders.
Pigeons have a love life quite similar to that of humans (adultery, jealousy, and even homophobia) and the rule I wrote in the case of penguins applies to them!

That person who has a problem with two "lesbian" pigeons, is actually not a good pigeon breeder, because he does not know the "secrets" of pairing pigeons!
Her problem is very easy to solve.
It is enough to close a "lesbian" with a male pigeon in a small cage for ten days and they will mate!

To explain homophobia in pigeons:
"Gay" couples in the pigeon loft are exposed to the harassment of the entire flock, all real pigeon fanciers know that!

Did you actually read the thread? The post I linked explained that both female pigeons in the pair were separated with males, just as you describe, and they still didn’t bond with the males.

I’m not sure what you’re achieving by insulting anyone whose pigeons have formed a same-sex pairing.

Most female pigeons are “harassed”/flirted with by male pigeons, whether they have a mate of the opposite sex or not.

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

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?

No, just no! Animals can not be bi-Sexual!!! First, for her to be laying fertile eggs she would have to have both *functioning* male and female sex organs, which is obviously impossible. Second, some hens crow/act like rooster, it's normal
How do you know the eggs are fertile?? Have you incubated them and hatched babies??
Call me homophobic, call me rude, but Animals can not be bi, it's literally impossible.

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

No, just no! Animals can not be bi-Sexual!!! First, for her to be laying fertile eggs she would have to have both make and female sex organs, which is obviously impossible. Second, some hens crow/act like rooster, it's normal
How do you know the eggs are fertile?? Have you incubated them and hatched babies??
Call me homophobic, call me rude, but Animals can not be bi, it's literally impossible.

But to clear up, I'm not anti-lgbtq+, all I'm saying is it's a human thing. Animals can't be gay, lesbian, trans, bi, or anything.

 

[Kanekoded]

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?

My hens squat in submission every time they see me...do I own a flock of multi-specie lesbians? Perhaps!

Honestly, I think they just do what comes natural without any thought put into it. Sometimes dominant hens will crow. Without a rooster around there isn't anyone else to establish a territory so, she will do it for the rest of the flock.

 

[NatJ]

No, just no! Animals can not be bi-Sexual!!!

Call me homophobic, call me rude, but Animals can not be bi, it's literally impossible.

If you are referring to how the animal thinks of itself, then of course it doesn't think in human terms, so you are just stating the obvious.

But if you are saying that no animal can be partly male and partly female, I will call you WRONG.

Here are three links to learn about animals (some chickens, some not) that really are part male and part female (that includes appearance and the DNA of the particular cells.) These links have already been posted in this thread, but here they are again:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynandromorphism
(mentions examples from quite a few species, with photos of various insects)
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/i-have-an-androgynous-chicken.1504007/page-4#post-26254503
(chicken that was confirmed by necropsy to have both male and female traits, including "ovotestes" that resembled both testicles and an ovary)

for her to be laying fertile eggs she would have to have both make and female sex organs, which is obviously impossible.

Or she could be a hen who lives with a rooster. (OP has said there is no rooster, but that would otherwise be the most likely explanation.)

Or she could be laying eggs that are thought to be fertile, but are really not. There are plenty of threads on here about hens laying eggs that look "fertile" when no rooster is present.

How do you know the eggs are fertile?? Have you incubated them and hatched babies??

That was answered quite a few posts ago:

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.. 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.

I think OP was probably seeing blood spots or meat spots, not fertile eggs, but incubating some eggs should provide a pretty definite answer to whether they are really fertile or not.