Setting Safeway eggs..... Yikes... see thread on 3 legged chick

[Smitty's Farm]

Where's the thread w/ the pic? Did I miss it? 3 legged chicken...now that, I've got to see!

 

[Smitty's Farm]

Smitty's Farm :

Where's the thread w/ the pic? Did I miss it? 3 legged chicken...now that, I've got to see!

Found it!!!!!!​

 

[silkieboxerluv]

Hows the chicky doing?

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

It could be a leghorn rooster on RIR hens, the chicks would all be white and might get a couple red flecks. The other way around would be a red star.

 

[catfish]

They could be RIW Rhode Island Whites.

 

[missnu01]

The fourth pip was just born.  The chick has three legs.  See the " Chick Born With Three Legs *** Can It Live??? ***PICS*** "  post.

I did an eggtopsy on a very late quitter and it had 4.. 4 legs.. crossed beak, one eye, exposed brain, it's organs are on the outside and 4 legs... I'm afraid of what will hatch out of the other eggs now.

 

[subhanalah]

I did an eggtopsy on a very late quitter and it had 4.. 4 legs.. crossed beak, one eye, exposed brain, it's organs are on the outside and 4 legs... I'm afraid of what will hatch out of the other eggs now.

they don't draw their insides...inside until close to hatching, that may not have been a defect.
Still....

 

[missnu01]

I did an eggtopsy on a very late quitter and it had 4.. 4 legs.. crossed beak, one eye, exposed brain, it's organs are on the outside and 4 legs... I'm afraid of what will hatch out of the other eggs now.

they don't draw their insides...inside until close to hatching, that may not have been a defect.
Still....

yeah but lock down is tomorrow...

The other late quitters were just small dead chickens. This one though has ever abnormality possible except for having some fish flippers.

 

[subhanalah]

Oh my gosh. What are they doing to our food supply? Is this common?

 

[Amykins]

Oh my gosh. What are they doing to our food supply? Is this common?

That's a whooooooooole other discussion, Hana. I dunno if I'd call it common, but most commercial layers aren't the healthiest birds and being bred for rapid growth has some dire consequences on their physiology. That, along with injecting steroids and hormones, are known to cause birth defects. But then again nearly all commercial egg-layers are kept far away from roos, so heck if I know.

Another possibility is that there may be something wrong with the roo. He may be old or unhealthy and that can result in inferior sperm that could cause these kinds of defects. Either way, the biologist and veterinary student in me really wants to study that eggtopsy and three-legged chick!

Hey, if it survives you can name it "Tripod"