Look @ This! Look! Extremly Intersting (:

[Chic-n-farmer]

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Okay, I can't be on here but a minute.... the family is revolting! And I mean that in the sense that they are clamoring to be fed....

not that they are totally disgusting. heehee (Not ALL the time, anyway!)

I think you might be right. She never laid an egg in the time I had her and she could crow! We showed her once and the judge was telling us we should be hatching every egg she laid. We couldn't convince him that she wasn't laying. He said she had to be, just look at that comb! He thought she must be hiding them... There was no place for her to hide them she just wasn't laying them!

 

[Gonzo]

neat!

 

[1eyejer]

Very, Very Interesting

 

[Sissy]

Learning something new every day.

 

[usschicago1]

This chicken And Yours Definitely look similar too!

 

[country freedom]

Love my Critters! :

Wow. I wonder too if they lay eggs. I guess if they can make females, the hatcheries wouldn't destroy all the unwanted males. (?)
That picture is just awesome they way it is just "cut" right down the middle.

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[fowltemptress]

Is this what Tang is?

Here . . . I just found his thread -> https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=67470&p=1

It does look like one side of his wattles are shorter than the other.

 

[usschicago1]

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OMG YES! Im 99% SURE HE IS! WOW
Heres a Picture of tang just incase anyone cant see it:

Nice chicken fowltemptress....still have him?

 

[fowltemptress]

Oh, no, I'm sorry if I implied he was mine . . . I wish he was, though! He belongs to someone called jakmallex on here. As soon as I saw this thread and read the link, I remembered reading about Tang a long time ago and thought that this might be the explanation. I wonder if jakmallex is still an active member of BYC? I think I might PM them and show them this thread, because the more I look at Tang, the more I'm convinced this is what's going on with him.

 

[BantamBritt]

And I dont see the 'awe factor' in this really. Wouldn't it be the equivalent of a hermaphrodite Human?

No, this is not the equivalent. Just to clear it up for anyone.....The significance of this oddity is that the individual is literally half female and half male, meaning one side is entirely female and one side is entirely male. The article hints that this is something that is only known to occur in birds, because of how cellular determination occurs in birds.... which is much different than cellular determination in mammals.... especially pertaining to the sex and sexual uniformity of those cells.

I would guess that this oddity is similar to the way identical twins occurs... where an egg is split in half... I guess something like thing happens, except the egg is only split by sex, the male cells and female cells segregate themselves...but the egg remains one individual instead of two.

Getting back to the Hermaphrodite human... if this chicken was to have a human equivalent, the human would physically and chemically be half female and half male... the half refering to location.. not percentage of tissues that are scattered throughout the body, but rather, one type on one side, and the other type on the other side.

So, a human equivalent to this chicken would, as an adult, probably:
~have manly facial hair on one side of its face, and lighter finer, feminine hair on the other side
~Would probably have the pronounced masculine brow line (human skulls can be identified as male by this detail) on one side, and perhaps the lesser feminie brow line on the other side
~have one female breast, perhaps with a functioning mammary gland, and a male breast on the other side
~have one feminine hand, and one larger, masculine hand (probably the same with the feet)
~I dont know how the reproductive tract on this chicken is, but assuming it still follows the rule that there are female cells on one side of the body, and male cells on the other, the human individual would probably have an ovary and fallopian tube on the female side of their body.. again, I don't know the details of what functions and what doesnt...
~I won't even get into the details of my thoughts on the arrangement of private parts.... but there probably would be one testical (being scientific, not obscene or offensive) on the male side of the body....

In conclusion, and just to really emphasize the importance of the article presented at the beginning of this thread, this chicken is something unique... and something that apparently only occurs in birds, and perhaps reptiles... due to the specific way they develop...​