One Yellow foot and one white foot on this young fellow.

[Doctim]

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I just finished reading your thread on gynandromorphs. Great Stuff. Has there been any publications from your collaboration with the university? I'd like to see the data from any studies/observations they have conducted.
Tim

 

[Redcatcher]

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I just finished reading your thread on gynandromorphs. Great Stuff. Has there been any publications from your collaboration with the university? I'd like to see the data from any studies/observations they have conducted.
Tim

Nothing yet, unfortunately. It took us quite awhile to get the license to import blood so that had put us into early last winter. Due to the severe weather both where I live, and in Scotland, the collaboration was put off again until spring. I got busy with work and my plans to move out of state, and before I knew it the weeks had turned into months. Drawing the samples for five birds and coordinating the shipment by FedEx would have required setting aside an entire day to do. The sudden death of the chimera made me realize that the collaboration wasn't going to wait forever. But now, in addition to sending blood samples, I will be having to send tissue samples which requires applying for another license. In the mean time, one of the prospective fathers was carried off by a fox in broad daylight. The eerie part was that he somehow made his way back to the chicken house late that evening before collapsing and dying by the door. I knew then that the collaboration was meant to go forward, and it will.