WHITE LEG & YELLOW LEG = FUNKY EGG?

[Granny Hatchet]

hey, look what I found !
Chimera chicken gives insight into avian sex cell development ...
www.sciencebuzz.org/blog/chimera-chicken-gives-insight-avian-sex-cell-development

 

[Granny Hatchet]

 

[Wishing4Wings]

So Farmer Connie probably has a very rare chicken!

 

[Granny Hatchet]

More then likely she does

 

[BrindleFinch]

My bet is on Chimera~ Can that happen in chickens? A double yolker merging into a single chick? If that's the case, I would assume the chicken would lay one egg color or the other - OR, if it's truly a chimera split down the middle completely, you might see patchy eggs.

I would assume it would be one color, perhaps with speckling, but unfortunately I doubt there will be cool jigsaw puzzle eggs

Keep us posted! This is super interesting.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

How crazy! I'm definitely a layperson but my gut guess would be that it's a dual sex chimera... I don't think that would be connected with anything neurological but again that's just a guess. Possibly reproductive issues but it may be fine and fully functional, as long as the chicken seems healthy I would just wait and see.

Apparently every cell in a chicken has its own genetic sexual specification, male or female, and the way sex is assigned during development is quite different from mammals, so part of the bird may sometimes get "switched up" to the opposite sex, if that makes any sense.

Here's an article I found about sex chimerism in chickens: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/n...its-own-male-or-female-identity/#.Wtd03I9lA0M

I am curious to see if the lighter color leg will continue to be larger and eventually grow out a spur. Now that would be something to write home about. A pullet with one giant spur. Thanks for the link and reply of course.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

FAR OUT!

 

[Lazy Farmer]

hey, look what I found !
Chimera chicken gives insight into avian sex cell development ...
www.sciencebuzz.org/blog/chimera-chicken-gives-insight-avian-sex-cell-development

That was a great link.. thank you. Just got done reviewing it.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

That was a great link.. thank you. Just got done reviewing it.

your welcome. Cool chicken. Now what ? shoot, you might can sell for big $$

 

[Lazy Farmer]

your welcome. Cool chicken. Now what ? shoot, you might can sell for big $$

DH said sell it to UF. I said not if you don't want to get. It would have to be a big chunk of change. In both articles/links you guys gave , both didn't mention how rare this anomaly is. It is the first I have heard of it but the one article says it's occurred for eons.
I would be interested in statistics of probability.