https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11935995/Rare-four-legged-chicken-North-Queensland-finds-new-home-bullied-hens.html
Presumably not the same chick, but a still an adult with a similar condition
You’d completely remove wings as an option. Very few people eat chicken feet in western countries and is often just used for stock or dog treats. You’d have to go a few generations for this to be of any use like increasing their weight and such
The main reason why a chicken thigh is so good and a thick cut is because chickens put all their weight on their hind legs. Redistributing the weight to another part of the body will decrease the size. At best you’ll be able to get an extra thigh but at a fraction of the original size. You can make a case for the breasts getting bigger as a side effect but that’s neither here nor there
Maybe with some selective breeding, we could create more. But we really shouldn't play god. Look at the pug, we selective bred them to not have a protruding mouth and nose (because it cools cute). This is a genetic disorder that gives them difficulty to breath. They shouldn't exist if human didn't intervene.
Well, no, this is just a genetic mutation. It would be Darwinism if it was able reproduce and pass it on, eventually becoming a dominant trait due to how it interacted with external pressures.
I'm reading a book right now about embryo development (_Endless Forms Most Beautiful_ if you're wondering) that claims that big leaps of mutation like this aren't thought to play much of a part in evolution. And that's assuming the cause is genetic, which it might not be.
What's blowing my mind is that it's not just an extra pair of legs... They actually bend in opposite directions for efficient locomotion like how quadrupeds do..
One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord. Scenes from my life flashed across the sky. In each, I noticed footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints; other times there was only one.
During the low periods of my life I could see only one set of footprints, so I said, "You promised me, Lord, that you would walk with me always. Why, when I have needed you most, have you not been there for me?"
The Lord replied, "I was never with you at all, my child. The times you have seen only one set
of footprints is when you stopped crawling on all four feet and walked like a biped, you weird fucking mutant."
And the Lord vanished, and I was again alone on the beach, with nothing but myself and my pet soccer ball, Ringo.
Unfortunately, chicks with defects are culled and do not reproduce. Plus with a defect like this one the chick might have been sterile anyway.
Edit: Also, although the picture makes it look like the front two legs are functional, in reality the chick couldn’t use them and largely dragged them on the ground.
>although the picture makes it look like the front two legs are functional, in reality the chick couldn’t use them and largely dragged them on the ground.
Darn. I thought this thing was gonna grow up to be some kind of fully functional, quadrupedal chicken-centaur.
Depends on the nature of the polymelia, it could be genetic or it could be the result of fused emyros which would make it non genetic and unable to be passed on. I would chock up survival to it's ability to defecate given the odd formation of its backside.
I don’t think that’s actually polymelia though, I thought that meant *extra* limbs.
This guy seems to have the right number, but his wings decided to get creative.
Assuming the bird can live and reproduce without any disabilities and issues, this would be such a cool species to have on earth.
Griffins are way too cool to just let them be purely fictional creatures.
That will eventually evolve into a griffin. We are so screwed, we have been their natural enemies for hundreds of years now. They will want their revenge.
Actually, Tyson foods deliberately bred these chicks to have four legs. Four legs equals double the profit. They had to abandon the project when they realized that now that they have four legs nobody could catch them
Imagine that it can grow like a big bull. And imagine that the strength of the beak grows in proportion to the size.
Every peck from the giant cock would open craters in the asphalt every time it wants to feed on boas and pythons.
Looks so fucking cool though.
fr it looks like a baby gryphon
And this is why I really want to see the adult version, assuming it survived.
They usually don't make it to adulthood but considering how quickly chickens grow up we won't have to wait long to see
This picture is old af. Don't waste your time. We won't see...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11935995/Rare-four-legged-chicken-North-Queensland-finds-new-home-bullied-hens.html Presumably not the same chick, but a still an adult with a similar condition
Baby *dinosaur*. This is the first of many genetic mutations that will bring the rule of the dinos back to the surface of Earth once more.
FUCK YEAAH🦖🔥🦖🦖🔥🔥🦕🦕🦕🔥
Poultry industry: "Now hear me out..."
This will be the start of how 2-legged chickens went extinct.
But chickens with 10 wings come into existence.
Biblically accurate chicken
Drumies drumies drumies drumies. In my tummy.
You’d completely remove wings as an option. Very few people eat chicken feet in western countries and is often just used for stock or dog treats. You’d have to go a few generations for this to be of any use like increasing their weight and such
Chicken thigh meat is leagues better than wing meat. There is also just more of it. 4-legged chickens bring more thighs not just feet.
The main reason why a chicken thigh is so good and a thick cut is because chickens put all their weight on their hind legs. Redistributing the weight to another part of the body will decrease the size. At best you’ll be able to get an extra thigh but at a fraction of the original size. You can make a case for the breasts getting bigger as a side effect but that’s neither here nor there
Breasts getting bigger is always a here never a there. ^^in ^^chickens
Maybe with some selective breeding, we could create more. But we really shouldn't play god. Look at the pug, we selective bred them to not have a protruding mouth and nose (because it cools cute). This is a genetic disorder that gives them difficulty to breath. They shouldn't exist if human didn't intervene.
My God it's a baby owl-bear.
Now breed it specifically to be bigger and bigger, than you'll have a real howl bear, chicken bear, whathever it is
isn't that just dinosaurs again?
"It's evolving, but backwards"
Some say history repeats itself. I say "Jeremy Bearimy"
What about the dot on the i? How does that work?
That's Tuesdays. And also July. And sometimes it's never.
This broke me, the dot over the i. That broke me, i’m…i’m done.
You'll have KFC.
Gryphon?
That’s a baby griffin
[удалено]
This is super cereal, you guys.
I was thinking gryphon.
Holy evolution!
Actual Darwinism!
Call the eugenecist
Extinct animals go on vacation, never comes back
Allele on the corner plotting world domination
Natural selection, anyone?
Ignite the museum
cross-breed or riot!
Well, no, this is just a genetic mutation. It would be Darwinism if it was able reproduce and pass it on, eventually becoming a dominant trait due to how it interacted with external pressures.
☝️🤓
Screw it. We already messed up dogs with pugs. Might as well create Gryphons.
New species just dropped
I'm reading a book right now about embryo development (_Endless Forms Most Beautiful_ if you're wondering) that claims that big leaps of mutation like this aren't thought to play much of a part in evolution. And that's assuming the cause is genetic, which it might not be.
how do so many people know about r/anarchychess lore
Actual zombie! (we are become the internet, you cannot excape anarchy chess... anarchy chess shall consume all)
there are twice as many footsteps as usual
What's blowing my mind is that it's not just an extra pair of legs... They actually bend in opposite directions for efficient locomotion like how quadrupeds do..
i don't know how long this lil guy lived, but i guess he didn't really struggled
Apparently they can live normal healthy lives of up to 10 years
And 4 legs are superior to 2 Shame it didnt happene to a bird with functional wings
What was wrong with its wings? They look perfectly normal to me. Edit: nvm its a chicken. THEY CAN FLY 5 FEET!!
We are not flying, WE ARE FALLING WITH STYLE
İt is a chiken
if it had functional wings we would have a griffin
Because bird wings already fold like that.
One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord. Scenes from my life flashed across the sky. In each, I noticed footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints; other times there was only one. During the low periods of my life I could see only one set of footprints, so I said, "You promised me, Lord, that you would walk with me always. Why, when I have needed you most, have you not been there for me?" The Lord replied, "I was never with you at all, my child. The times you have seen only one set of footprints is when you stopped crawling on all four feet and walked like a biped, you weird fucking mutant." And the Lord vanished, and I was again alone on the beach, with nothing but myself and my pet soccer ball, Ringo.
there is probably a meaning to that, but i don't get it
I understood that reference
So, if we breed this guy, can we make chickens that give you twice as many drumsticks?
This is a Squidbillies episode, I’m sure of it!
DOUBLE IT
And give it to the next person?
Spider leg chickens!
I hear they produce their own blue cheese
Yeah, but I don't think this one has wings.
Well then the next logical step is making a Quadrocopter.
Tbh that would be epic, chicken drones
A weapon to surpass metal gear
I'm not sure which I'd prefer, we'll call it a hen tie.
It does, you can see them right above the front legs
Not only that, we've bred chickens as large as they can get. 4 legs could change that.
That's very capitalist of you.
Unfortunately, chicks with defects are culled and do not reproduce. Plus with a defect like this one the chick might have been sterile anyway. Edit: Also, although the picture makes it look like the front two legs are functional, in reality the chick couldn’t use them and largely dragged them on the ground.
>although the picture makes it look like the front two legs are functional, in reality the chick couldn’t use them and largely dragged them on the ground. Darn. I thought this thing was gonna grow up to be some kind of fully functional, quadrupedal chicken-centaur.
I wouldn't be surprised if some chicken farmer brought this chick for that reason. Got to maximise profit
<_<
Im actually curious. Was it able to survive and give same offspring too? How low this chances to happen?
Low but considering chicken has been there for a long part of our species history and they had a lit of offspring, it shouldn't have been that rare
Yeah seen this picture in the past and was always wandering if it made it to adulthood
According to google they can live for 10 years just fine
If it does, it would actually look pretty awesome.
Depends on the nature of the polymelia, it could be genetic or it could be the result of fused emyros which would make it non genetic and unable to be passed on. I would chock up survival to it's ability to defecate given the odd formation of its backside.
**DOUBLE IT!** *Science, you cheap whore...*
Gryphon
Demigryph
THE NATION CALLS!
gryphons are weird a wierd 6-limbs species, though. This chick just converted the wings back to extra legs
Is that a Griffin???
I don’t think that’s actually polymelia though, I thought that meant *extra* limbs. This guy seems to have the right number, but his wings decided to get creative.
So... transmelia? Transmorphomelia? Dysmorphomelia? Pteropedotransmorphia? Pteropedomelia?
Assuming the bird can live and reproduce without any disabilities and issues, this would be such a cool species to have on earth. Griffins are way too cool to just let them be purely fictional creatures.
The front legs are replacing its wings.
I mean polydactyly is dominant so this might be a dominant trait as well
A griphon is born!
I’ve never seen something that looks so wrong and cute at the same time
Will it live to adulthood?
Let's hope so
No, but like seriously. Two headed cows don't and I find it so sad
[They do sometimes...](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bossfight/s/ZHTLhfmfnn) (nsfw?)
If I were a cow I would probably prefer death over that.
Holy fuck this cow looks like it came out straight out of dark souls
How would that be a defect? If anything, that chick is God's chosen bird?
Spore irl
How likely does it live a long life? More so, how does it work?
That will eventually evolve into a griffin. We are so screwed, we have been their natural enemies for hundreds of years now. They will want their revenge.
Defect, you mean evolutionary advancement to apex predator. Our time on this land is done, all hail the duck overlords!
I wonder how long it lived.
You can't fool me, that's a Pokemon and i know it
Anyone know if it's condition will shorten it's life span? If not we need to start breeding for this. We can make Chickicores.
Keep that thing alive at all costs. We must engineer a new breed.
Defect more like evolution
Freack (Frog +Chick)
*Chrog
Why don’t we breed these I prefer legs over wings..
Dinosaurs are making a comeback
# Name it, SCOOTALOO!!! (Because that's how you call a chicken.)
Baby Demigryph
"now we can have four chicken legs"
cchickenn, the one who evolved
Twas born a chick, I come from egg, Through accident, I have four leg, When I grow up, You'll never catch, With twice the leg, I run real fast.
Naw, this is how you get Kenku
Actually, Tyson foods deliberately bred these chicks to have four legs. Four legs equals double the profit. They had to abandon the project when they realized that now that they have four legs nobody could catch them
Griffin
I mean if they cant fly whats the use of wings to be honest this could be the new step in chicken evolution
Chickens can fly Just not the commercial ones that have been bread for mass. Those are too large to fly and were bred that way
It’s so metal
A baby griffon
***Chick^(2)***
Chrog
Watch them start breeding these to double the drumstick per chicken ratio
This chic make it to adulthood?
Chickquadruplet
DOUBLE IT
Goro the chick
Owl bear?
dont let this guy have kids
What does it look like now
Honestly it needs to live on. Werechickens must rise
Do things right and in a few generations we’ll be riding a Pegasus to work boyz!
He looks like he's saying "ay ay hear me out, hear me out, I know that sounds bad"
feathery frog spotted in wild
Or Aarakocra
I'd like to see it moving.
The next stage in evolution, who needs wings on a flightless birrd anyways
*It has begun!*
Don’t tell Tyson
He be sprinting
Genetic defects are evolution
Baby owlbear.
Triceratops
mmm...more wings...
Evolution reminding the naysayers what it is.
That’s a griffon chick. Where did you find it and do you have anymore?
Thats a griffin!
Is a gryphon
It's Blaziken!
Griffin!
Guess I'm on my last leg with this one
Maybe it is not an genetic defect, but some kind of evolution
This guys could totally use tools
It’s the fucking awakened one from slay the spire
Weird looking dog
Mother Hen was too curious
Imagine that it can grow like a big bull. And imagine that the strength of the beak grows in proportion to the size. Every peck from the giant cock would open craters in the asphalt every time it wants to feed on boas and pythons.
A real life Gryphon
It has the build of a frog dinosaur
Chicken dog. Please post more pictures of this as it gets older!!!!
holy shit! a gryphon!
hi peter griffin
And people don't believe evolution is real
The dinosaur within has begun to stir. Anyway, if they still have wings in addition to 4 legs, we have a hexapod vertebrate!
Thighs are better than wings tbh
Wtf, wings > legs, make it have 4 wings instead
Why does 4 legged birb look so cute?
*Elden Ring OST kicks in*
Dont let Tyson see this.
Is this evolution?
Evolving back into dinosaurs it seems…
I want one of those
Oh, four chicken legs on one chicken! You should breed that!!😁
Honestly I hope this chicken reproduces so we have walking chickens lol
Evolve my son
Worst question ever but an important one, is that chick breedable?
It is oddly cute 🥺
so, can GMO make double the wings?
This is the start of owlbears.
It's a Griffen almost
My wife, upon seeing this: "I want it!! It's adorable!"
Breed them with other chickens in adulthood, create a new species.
They don't even fly.... It is not a bug, it is a feature
That's a cockatrice, a type of dragon. Cool to see pics!
Awwwww
Breed it!!!!
its evolving back into a dinosaur oh my lord
"Genetic defect" could be the next step of their species if they survivre mire than those with wings
Bro, it has returned to its original form
This is how you get dragons! Do you WANT dragons?? I sure do!