The White Wyandotte chicken emerged as a breed after the American Civil War, ... Its rose comb also survives better in freezing temperatures than a single comb does. Hens are good mothers, ...

A sex-change chicken which started life as an egg-laying hen has turned into a crowing cockerel. The pet, called Freaky, spent eight months laying dozens of eggs until she crowed like a cock bird ...

A HEN has caused a right doodle-do - by swapping sex and turning into a cockerel. After eight months laying dozens of eggs, she suddenly sprouted a scarlet comb, developed tufty tail feathers and ...

Freaky the hen spent the first eight months of her life laying eggs and attracting the attentions of a rooster. But last September the silver-laced Wyandotte started crowing at sunrise and being ...

A lone rooster sees a lot of all the hens in the flock, but the hen with the largest comb gets a bigger dose of sperm -- and thus more chicks. Researchers in Sweden have now shown how the size of ...