So apparently (because NPR's reporting it) there are rooster/chickens that are half male and half female. They're called gynandromorphs (well, the chickens and any other living thing that's 1/2 male and 1/2 female) but, after considering options such as rickens and choosters, I think they should be called chicksters.
Check out the gender-bending chickens.
But in all seriousness, it makes me wonder if we aren't messing with biology so much, treating life with such disrespect, that a chicken no longer knows if it's chicken or a rooster. Maybe there's a good, healthy scientific explanation (NPR didn't really go there), or maybe it's the sad way we treat the chickens.
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Ugh I find that disturbing too. But I guess I would hope there was a reason that they did it, not just because they could?
ReplyDeleteyikes. And I like Chicksters....not that I'm condoning the creation of half male half female anything.
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