"Expected" kinda depends on the exact cause of the "defect".
Like, when human babies that were victims of thalidomide started being born, doctors originally assumed that such severe limb differences HAD to indicate their organs were all messed up too - but they werent. So it's likely that a chicken (or, any animal) COULD be born with that many extra limbs and still be internally healthy enough to survive, but of course SOME causes, like what this person described, will have effected other systems within the body enough to be incompatible with life
I wish we would have photographed it and put it in a jar of formaldehyde. We were told after the fact that curiosities like this are worth a lot to a certain eclectic group. My wife was quite weirded out by the chick and wanted it gone.
168
u/PopesParadise 29d ago
We had one hatch with 4 legs and 4 wings several years ago. It only lived a few hours. We should have preserved it.