r/interestingasfuck 29d ago

/r/all Chick with genetic defect

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u/Brawndo91 29d ago

Were you a chicken farmer at Chernobyl?

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u/Zortesh 29d ago

Nah just grew up on a family farm that has about a hundred free range chickens, parents didn't kill off the local born roosters or add in new blood very often.

Saw a mutant every few years, extra random legs was the most common thing, saw a 5 legged chick as a child, but it died within a day of hatching.. and as far as I could tell couldn't control the extra legs at all.

I also saw a huge number of chicks over the years so a truly tiny number were actually mutants in comparison.

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u/birgor 28d ago

They have funky feet every now and then. I have seen a couple with odd deformities as well just from very small scale chicken farming.