Real photo and real chick. From what I remember, this isn't a genetic mutation but a developmental one. The front legs are its real legs, while the ones on the back are largely nonfunctional and obstruct the cloaca. These chicks don't usually live too long.
Who knows anymore, but i'd wager it's `ai fake bullshit`. It's not just the additional legs, but the whole area around the "hips" and lower is odd. Chickens don't have these defined hips and ass. Also, they don't have "knees" like this. The whole bottom half looks mammalian.
It looks like someone took a reference picture of a mouse or hedgehog or something, and told a genAI to make it into a chicken.
It looks like the back legs are backwards and the feet are malformed, giving the appearance of the mammalian legs. I wonder if it's a kind of conjoined twin?
I’m pretty sure this image was taken a while before generative AI was a thing/widespread. It is possible it is fake in a different way though, like a render or weird taxidermy
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u/Ok-Battle-9352 29d ago
Is this real or some ai fake bullshit. Because I support the Gryphon comment 😂