Rooster Becomes Hen, Scientists Baffled

A hen named Gianni has confused scientists as he has miraculously changed his sex and started laying eggs. It started when a fox invaded his coop and killed off all of the hens. Within a few days, Gianni had laid eggs and was trying to hatch them.

The sex-change chicken has baffled scientists at the UN's Farm and Agriculture Organization, who are now planning to study Gianni's DNA to see what made him change.

An expert at the center said: 'It may be a primitive species survival gene. With all the females gone he could only ensure the future of his line by becoming female.'

Professor Donato Matassino, who will be leading tests on Gianni, said: 'This rooster-hen will be taken to the laboratories of Consdabi (Consortium for the experimentation and application of innovative biotechniques) for a series of behavioral and genetic tests.

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Professor Donato Matassino, who will be leading tests on Gianni, said: ‘This rooster-hen will be taken to the laboratories of Consdabi (Consortium for the experimentation and application of innovative biotechniques) for a series of behavioral and genetic tests'..in a white wine sauce, with mushrooms, shallots, and garlic.
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This has also been documented before by Ripley's. I truly think that my bird (sun conure) did that. I don't know if only "lower species" like chickens do that, but I swear my bird was a male for 8 years, then started laying eggs. He is so dominant and even humps our hands like male birds would to females in the wild (in mating videos)

Oh, and "his" eggs come out where his poops come out, miocl
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I had a parakeet that for 7 years we all thought was a boy. Blue ceres and everything. One day he/she layed an egg. A year later he/she layed another egg.

I do not understand birds.
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Can this be for real? We've got a great geriatric rooster who's too old to impregnate our hens - which makes me happy because I'd never want to find half formed babies in my scrambled eggs. But I can't imagine he'd ever start laying eggs of his own...
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