I have fenced off areas in my side yard and backyard with two different flocks of chickens. Caprica, my Barred Rock / Plymouth Rock mix it's supposed to be a rooster. He is housed with his only companion a smaller mixed hen. She lays small pink/creamed eggs but today I found Caprica in the coop laying on a large brown egg. In no way could that egg be from the hen. My father suggested that he could be a hermaphrodite because he remembered having one on his grandmother's farm when he was a child.
So my question is; is it possible for there to be a hermaphrodite in chickens?
Note: I don't believe it could be from my other flock as I have this fence fixed so the other male (his father) can't get to him because they fight. So I don't think the other hens could have gotten in it.
Here are some pictures of him and the egg I found under him.
So my question is; is it possible for there to be a hermaphrodite in chickens?
Note: I don't believe it could be from my other flock as I have this fence fixed so the other male (his father) can't get to him because they fight. So I don't think the other hens could have gotten in it.
Here are some pictures of him and the egg I found under him.