A Chicken Changed Sex In Belgium!

Jonas Verdickt is an ordinary citizen living in a small town in Belgium with chickens. Verdickt, who woke up with a great surprise one morning last week, is sitting on the agenda of the world. Verdickt’s one of his chickens suddenly crowing like a rooster and his appearance began to change.

Verdickt, who has no roosters in his coop and only feeds chickens, spent a lot of time with his animals during his quarantine due to coronavirus. During this time, Verdickt, who watched his chicken named ‘Belle’ from female to male in detail, durable a comb its structure and to masculine posture He says he has too. So is such a thing really possible? This situation, which is extremely surprising for us, is quite normal for scientists.

How can a chicken turn into a rooster?

Experts, who stated that such a situation can be seen, albeit rarely, said that it was completely with chromosomes He explained that it was something related. Experts say that in chickens, as in humans, sex determining He pointed out that the thing was chromosomes. That is, in both female and male bird species two identical Z chromosomes and these enable the determination of gender.

Different chromosomes in bird species are mistaken as ZW. Because of this chromosome difference in female birds Only a piece developed ovary and if a chicken has a disease such as cancer or a cyst in the left ovary, the undeveloped right ovary comes into play. At this point, the ovaries and testicles mix and masculine hormones is secreted. As a result, chickens may suddenly begin to crow and may even have male sexual characteristics.

Probably Verdickt’s chicken experienced a similar situation. Experts also explained that the chicken can fertilize other chickens in the coop.