Rooster laying eggs

[TheCluckandStrut]

Lol, now if we can just get the human race to believe the same thing !!

I'm glad somebody else was thinking the same thing I was.

 

[Sir Winston]

OP started 2 threads about this particular bird, and hasn’t been back to either of them…

After the first page I thought it was a troll , and likely is.

 

[NatJ]

After the first page I thought it was a troll , and likely is.

But at least we get to look at pictures of the pretty chicken!

 

[LaFleche]

After the first page I thought it was a troll , and likely is.

Or a belated April fools joke.

 

[Huixpi Tonantzin]

So I have a Polish chicken. I bought about 7 or 8 months ago and it is a rooster and it started laying eggs todayView attachment 4088496View attachment 4088498

androgyny or intersex occurrences in other species of animals is always a curious subject for me. a non-binary rooster who lays eggs! a natural occurrence

 

[Huixpi Tonantzin]

it is rare; however, it is not impossible that chickens come from double fertilized eggs, meaning two sperm successfully fertilized an egg. National geographic covered an article by Nature showing that this happens in many birds, about one in 10,000.

The proper term is "gynandromorphs", and it's actually not a genetic defect. The cells are NORMAL.

What was strange, however, was that male cells made up one half of the body, and female cells composed the other half.

You got yourself a rare they/them pronouns bird! A literal "Two-Spirit".

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/100315-half-male-half-female-chickens

 

[Huixpi Tonantzin]

Female birds can lay eggs even if there is no rooster around. Only females can lay eggs, males cannot. Females can be feisty and attack things, but that does not make it a male. Your bird is 100% a female. It may have fooled you, but she has always been a girl and always will be!

They're a gynandromorph!

 

[Zenmonkey]

I'm pretty certain that the original poster simply is inexperienced in identifying a chicken's gender.

 

[redinator]

Why can’t it be a pullet? Looks like one to me, even if it is crowing, being mean or has spurs it can still be a pullet, females can have all of those traits.

If it's laying eggs it's no longer a pullet, but a hen.

 

[redinator]

I had a rooster I loved he was a bantam EE. The hens loved him. 2 other roosters got jealous of him, and killed him. I went to the fridge and took out an egg from his favorite hen, a silky, and put her egg and 2 other eggs in incubator. I hatched out 3. The silky egg chick was smooth feathered, but had a poofy head. And the other eggs were roosters. The poofy headed chick and the other 2 were very aggressive, and especially the poofy headed chick. I got attacked by that chick every day. As it got bigger I decided to put the mean little chick down. Before putting it down I collected eggs. And there was a new bright green egg in coop. The only one it could have been from was the poof. I was so happy, as the poof ran up to attack me, I picked her up and hugged her. After that the poof came for hugs, and not to attack. She as attacking me because I was not loving on her.

You can incubate refrigerated eggs? How long can they be stored like this . . . I'm very intrigued by this information . . .