Sex change chickens

Does that make them trans chickens?

I don't want to see chickens running around with 6 legs ,created by any biological engineering. You'd never catch them anyway

I doubt the aim is kindness, female chickens are simply more profitable. What’s next, bull calves changed to heifer calves?

What a brilliant idea!
When we kept poultry we bought the males for their meat - they're much more meaty than the hens and they're cheaper.
Buy nowadays the hens are fed extra to make them fatter.
Something to help the Israelis - a cockerel doesn''t have a penis, which surprised me.
Also cockerels have already been castrated (chemically) for years to make capons so they get fat and lazy. Poor things.

Interesting.

Crocodiles change sex in the egg depending on the temperature. I learnt that on a visit to a crocodile farm, however, I don't want to eat crocodile eggs!

I suppose if it happens fairly naturally without the use of hormones that's more acceptable.

My mum would never buy capons.

One way to get rid of the patriarchy!

Fennel, if there is no penis, how do hens get fertilised? I am aware I probably sound very ignorant now.

Isn’t that what a cock is for??

oh Lemongrove, you never fail to make me laugh out loud!

Ooh, you are awful!

vetexplainspets.com/how-does-rooster-fertilize-egg/

I suppose it's the same process with all birds?

GagaJo

Fennel, if there is no penis, how do hens get fertilised? I am aware I probably sound very ignorant now.

How birds have sex. Since someone asked.

x posts, calli ?

GagaJo - evidently they squirt the semen into a vent at the back of the hen

That doesn't sound much fun for the hen.

Doesn't even give them time to moan about a headache does it, GagaJo ?

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Choking into my EllanVannin???

Trans"hen"ders.

LOL MissAdventure.

Let’s all laugh at cruelty to animals shall we? One of the reasons for this pandemic is humans abusing animals. Chickens being the most abused animal on the planet, unable to live anything like a natural life. When is the last time you actually saw a mother hen with her chicks outside of a children’s book?
www.peta.org.uk/blog/the-uk-egg-industry-is-lying-to-you/

What sound vibrations do they play to alter the development do you think? Maybe Beyoncé, If I Were a Boy?

I do take your point, vegansrock. There is a farm near us which sells genuine free range eggs - you can see the chickens, ducks etc wandering about - and also milk and cheese from cows milked once a day so calves stay with them. Not perfect, but better than the standard system.

Ours lived like that, except we had to keep an eye on them if we let them out of their run because of foxes. Even in their run buzzards often hovered over them and would take any small ones. in spite of the cockerels screaming.
As for hens with chicks, husband made a special run for them because if left in the henhouse with their mother the adults trod on them after they left the nest.
On second thoughts, not a brilliant idea of the Israelis.

So, are the bald, headless tied up chickens we buy in supermarkets all female then?

I'm reasonably confident that absolutely nothing is wasted in the food industry if it can be helped. But I'm happy to be proved wrong.

Vegansrock - I don't think anyone was laughing at animal cruelty, they were sniggering about bird sex and the word cock.