Tell me about your anomalies

[NotabitaiI]

I actually think this might be an anomaly I had to google heterocromia, and that is so crazy! Do you have pictures?

Not at the moment but once I get back from my trip I could get photos.

 

[VeeKay]

This guy -

 

[Backroadlogic]

I once had a rooster with one big waddle and one super tiny. When he was butchered he had a regular testicle on the side with the regular waddle and a shriveled weird one on the side with the undeveloped waddle

 

[hollandhens24]

I don't currently have any who's particularly different, but I have some who're very friendly and funny.

When they were babies I named one of them Dora, as in Dora the explorer, because she was always the first to run to me, and first to go new places. When they got older, two more got just as tame and curious, so I guess I have three Dora's now

One of the first chickens I had as a teen would go on bike-rides with me. I'd pop her onto the steering wheel and off we went (around the farm, not on the road). In hindsight, I don't know if she actually enjoyed it, but she at least tolerated it...

I am shocked by how adventurous some chickens are! Your bike chicken may have enjoyed it more than you know

 

[Backroadlogic]

Also. Growing up on broiler chicken farms I've seen hundreds of chicks with extra legs. Every once in awhile you would get a single black broiler chick out of 100,000+ chicks, I always thought that was interesting

 

[hollandhens24]

I once had a rooster with one big waddle and one super tiny. When he was butchered he had a regular testicle on the side with the regular waddle and a shriveled weird one on the side with the undeveloped waddle

This is fascinating! Was he fertile?

 

[hollandhens24]

Also. Growing up on broiler chicken farms I've seen hundreds of chicks with extra legs. Every once in awhile you would get a single black broiler chick out of 100,000+ chicks, I always thought that was interesting

Would an extra leg be due to a double yolked egg and one chick being absorbed by the other? The random black chick is interesting!

 

[Backroadlogic]

This is fascinating! Was he fertile?

He was. I kept him penned with 2 girls and they hatched out several chicks one year before I replaced him with his bigger/stronger/more aggressive brother who had both waddles

 

[Backroadlogic]

Would an extra leg be due to a double yolked egg and one chick being absorbed by the other? The random black chick is interesting!

I can only speculate that it was. I've seen them with partial bodies and feet attached. Definitely a twin that didn't absorb or something like that.

I always wanted to keep the black chicks for myself but when you are a contracted broiler farm you can't have personal poultry

 

[ChickQueen77]

I have a bantam cochin hen named Chip and if she doesn't like you she will jump at your face and now all my siblings are terrified of her.