Fun Fact #32: This is probably one of the more strange fun facts. Did you know that chickens can change thier sex? This process known as "spontaneous sex reversal" usually occurs because chickens only have one fully functional ovary. If this ovary is damaged in some way (ie. disease or tumors etc) the right one will begin to form. However this new ovary may contain traces of nuts (excuse the language), that is, it can contain characterisitics of the ovary, the testes, or both. This results in a chicken suddenly having male characteristics that is not laying eggs, crowing etc.

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trancenova · Answer

In other words, one day you have a laying hen then for some reason, after awhile, you have a rooster that looks like a rooster, crows like a rooster but is genetically a hen.

anonymous · Answer

where do u get this fact from??

trancenova · Answer

I got the idea originally from a book about the history of discorvery of birds but I don't remeber the title, the main part of this I got from:

www.ca.uky.edu/smallflocks/.../Sex_reversal_in_chickens.pdf

anonymous · Answer

oh..wow..amazing..is the book yours?

trancenova · Answer

Thanks :D Lol, do you mean did I write it or own it, god I wish I wrote it! :P but I do own a copy... somewhere... *points a pile of books in shelf. Nope, definitely not at the level to be writing books...

anonymous · Answer

hehe..hope it will be.. :) 
does the book have other special things to be published??hope so..