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Pheasant sex change.

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  • 11-04-2012 4:44pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 53 ✭✭


    This is really strange but i let out a fully grown hen pheasant with dark brownish or redish feathers like a cock pheasant but it had no ring or green head or red around its eyes so i let it out thinking it was similar to a melanastic pheasant except a hen. So a few weeks later i started hearing Cackles and my father said he seen a pheasant cock molting but he said it was very large to be molting and we never seen the hen again.So i started to wonder a few weeks ago if the hen changed into a cock and i found this online.
    Bird's rare sex change stuns zoo.

    http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/viewnews.php?id=225291

    so i would just like to see what other people think i am not sure about but it could happen according to this article.
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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,006 ✭✭✭TriggerPL


    right lad all write to the npws , we can no longer be sure it a hen or a cock undercover , so were going to have to shoot them all .

    funny story tho .


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,868 ✭✭✭djflawless


    it can happen to a chicken cant it?well not full blown slice and dice below job but cackling like a rooster etc


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,729 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Tis weird allright - its common enough in fish(in the Shannon some fish are changing sex due to exposure to chemicals in sewage!!) but I 've never heard about it in birds. Though like humans i'm sure you can get hemaphrodites


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