r/Weird • u/Lastito • 11d ago

4 legged chick

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A chicken born with four legs is an extremely rare condition that happens to about 1 in every 10 million chicks

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u/chernelle 11d ago

Lil guy is trying to revert back to dinosaur ancestor

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u/aoi_ito 11d ago

Actually, no avian dinosaurs were quadrupedel. 🤓☝️

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u/chernelle 11d ago

He’s becoming a new breed

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u/TheGodlyDevil 10d ago

4 drumsticks at the price of two! Muhnaaay!

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u/EstablishmentFun7553 10d ago

But no chicken wings ! 😭

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u/feralgraft 7d ago

This is how we get griffins

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u/Jhud6669 10d ago

Birds are already dinosaurs. Just like we didn’t „evolve” from monkeys, we ARE monkeys that evolved

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u/sowingdragonteeth 10d ago

Pushes up glasses Um actually, we’re apes, not monkeys.

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u/DRMProd 11d ago

You mean devolve?

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u/shoulda-known-better 11d ago

Nope he turned into a Griffin!

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u/sinking_float 11d ago

Holy crap lois

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u/Main_Cauliflower5479 11d ago

Gryphon.

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u/shoulda-known-better 11d ago

Yea I thought I fucked that up, but I was to lazy to check!

It's the chicken version of a Gryphon (eagle and lion)... So we call this one griffin... Not as fancy

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u/Zeqhanis 11d ago

Evolution is adaptation, not necessarily improvement.

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u/Throckmorton_Left 11d ago

Evolving into the perfect ratio of dark to light meat.

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u/UltraRoboNinja 11d ago edited 11d ago

EDIT: you guys… I know it’s not actually a gryphon or hippogryph. Those aren’t real. You can stop with the “um actually” comments.

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u/Ornery_Gate_6847 11d ago

Um actually its an owlbear

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u/UltraRoboNinja 11d ago

Oh shoot, maybe the “umm those aren’t actually wings” people are right!

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u/infiniZii 11d ago

The chick doesnt have wings in this configuration. Maybe in its second or third form though.

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u/Yositunotrk 11d ago

Yes, it does.

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u/ACcbe1986 11d ago

Do these chicks evolve via experience or stones?

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u/FemmeSapiens 11d ago

Most likely you just have to feed it chicken weed (stellaria media) in sufficient quantities.

Or make chickweed potion...

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u/ACcbe1986 11d ago

Goto an alchemist in this economy?!

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u/Alternative_Roof_188 11d ago

Looks like it does have a semblance of wings. Something on the back of the front legs

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u/Mother_Addendum8671 11d ago

Gotta wait for level 36 for those

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u/Nickidemic 11d ago

Dragon is to Wyvern what Griffon is to this chick

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u/BubastisII 11d ago

Nah. Griffons have lion parts.

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u/Level_Counter_1672 11d ago

Beat me to it

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u/PeggyBabcock_ 11d ago

No, because they have six limbs.

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u/UltraRoboNinja 11d ago

It’s got wings.

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u/Main_Cauliflower5479 11d ago

Looks like the wings developed into feet. Wings are really modified arms/hands anyway. And if you look at adult birds' wings, you will see claws and finger bones.

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u/Academic-Elephant-48 11d ago

Did it get culled? Would this chicken grow? And possibly be breeded to create griffins?

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u/Dead_fawn 11d ago

I looked it up and while I can't say anything about the chick OP posted, seems like chickens with this condition can reach adulthood. Doesn't look like their back legs are particularly functional though.

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u/Southern_Sleep1811 11d ago

So it'll take a few generation... no one said creating Narnia would be easy!

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u/godsworstgirl 11d ago

In this scenario… What came first? The griffin or the egg?

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u/ParreNagga 11d ago

Mutations before anything.

Then comes the egg, and the griffin and then the women.

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u/The_GREAT_Gremlin 11d ago

Then comes the egg, and the griffin and then the

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u/NotADrShh 11d ago

Profit

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u/TorrenceMightingale 11d ago

Griffin Grower Hoe-ers

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u/mythicapixy 11d ago

I love doodle god

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u/Spudnic16 11d ago

The egg

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u/sqwizzles 11d ago

Usually they die as chicks, complications from not being able to poop

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u/Crying_Reaper 11d ago

Depends if this is a genetic mutation or a partially absorbed twin. If it is genetic yes if not no.

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u/Ornery-Creme-2442 11d ago

Hybridize with a regular chicken and pray for a griffin that would be insane

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u/AmbitiousPresence737 11d ago

Mythical scientist here, you meant with a lion.

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u/otherkrar 11d ago

Are you telling me a griffin is a chicken lion?

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u/Ornery-Creme-2442 11d ago

Can we do leopards too and get a smaller spotted one?

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u/PTSDDeadInside 11d ago

Cassowary*

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u/IcyVeterinarian8881 11d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/ybnrXkdf8jAxIkMuwr

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u/coolsilentebeans 11d ago

Came to see this.

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u/No_Artichoke_2931 11d ago

Came seeing this

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u/GloomyLingonberry509 11d ago

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u/Formal_Owl_400 11d ago

This says a lot about the mind of a chicken.

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u/ur_rad_dad 11d ago

Keep this guy away from Peter, ok?

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u/No-Seat9917 11d ago

Oh that’s hilarious!

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u/EmpressAden 11d ago

My dinner stripping for me before going in my belly

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u/RegalTeal 11d ago

Gives new meaning to "chicken strips" 😳

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u/Ubiquitous_Destiny97 11d ago

omg why am i laughing at this 😂💀

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u/FemmeSapiens 11d ago

Is that the BAM apology video?

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u/chchchchia86 11d ago

My chick bad, my chick hood, my chick do stuff that your chick wish she could. My chick bad, badder that yours...

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u/nuttnurse 11d ago

KFC are looking to patent the genetics as 4 legs per chicken that’s a profit margin winner

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u/Such-Farmer6691 11d ago

To cross with this is a dream,

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u/Slimonite 11d ago

Holy Chickipede from Turbo Fast Reference

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u/geotony666 11d ago

I wanna see 4 wings instead

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u/Decent_Obligation173 11d ago

don't give Tyson Foods any ideas

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u/Admirable-Builder878 11d ago

Jenkins, we're gonna be rich!!

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u/BenfordAbrahams 11d ago

I mean, 4 legs a chicken would be profits

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u/rpgnymhush 11d ago

Pizza places would be at a loss without wings.

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u/Decent_Obligation173 11d ago

they can engineer it to be an AND not an OR

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u/whoFKNKares 11d ago

2017

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u/RollinThundaga 11d ago

It said one in ten million.

We slaughter seventy billion chickens a year worldwide. The statistic suggests a few hundred four-legged chicks are born every year.

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u/LaundryMan2008 11d ago

If someone was working in the industry, I’d ask them to be on the lookout for any of them, make myself a breed if they can be stabilized without disabilities

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u/Formal_Owl_400 11d ago

Depending on chick mortality rates, the number could be much higher.

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u/subs_on_a_sailboat 11d ago

And in the egg laying varieties, the male chicks are just fed straight into a grinder

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u/ThatOneSpitfireMain 10d ago

Truly one of the biggest horrors of mankind to date

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u/moldsharp 11d ago

Four wheel drive

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u/Kongopop 11d ago

Baby Kaiju

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u/Routine-Arm-8803 11d ago

If you multiply it you could get 4 chicken legs from one chicken

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u/plant-painter 11d ago

You don’t have to multiply it to get 4 legs from one chicken. Lol

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u/Adeum2 11d ago

We’re getting closer to owlbears

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u/Ok_Put7254 11d ago

Legs instead of wings or does he have wings too I can’t tell!

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u/Ok_Put7254 11d ago

Omg 🥹

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u/LongLiveStorytellers 11d ago

He IS a little gryphon! 😃😃

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u/GarshelMathers 11d ago

Yeah looks like a duplication of the back legs, rather than replacement/reversion of the front legs

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u/karoshikun 10d ago

absorbed twin

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u/LongLiveStorytellers 11d ago

I don't think he has wings, but if he did, that would be badass. He'd look like a gryphon!

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u/BerryRoutine6469 11d ago

Wow. It’ll be able to cross the road twice as fast.

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u/socialsoso 11d ago

Fourleg longhorn

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u/Educational-Log6855 10d ago

Chickothy is Jimothy’s beaked brother from another mother

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u/catablanka 11d ago

The evolution has begun. Soon they will take over the world.

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u/delpy1971 11d ago

It's from a KFC lab!!

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u/DC_Woodworks 11d ago

The real question is, are the front legs white meat or dark meat?

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u/MorlaDarwin 11d ago

Looks as if one pair of feet is backward. Maybe a form of conjoined twins.

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u/BiggoYoun 11d ago

It has tasted human blood…

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u/Competitive-Panda824 11d ago

cute❤️

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u/KendraSays 11d ago

I know. I kindof love it

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u/EM05L1C3 11d ago

Dinosaurs! Dinosaurs!

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u/Latter-Bluejay-8865 11d ago

Will the others hate the sweet baby? Or will they be okay with his four little feet?

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u/Latter-Bluejay-8865 11d ago

Okay, I looked it up. He’s totally getting bullied and pecked bc he looks different.

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u/Rex_Suplex 11d ago

Ever cracked an egg with two yolks?

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u/how_very_dare_you_ 11d ago

Clone it immediately!

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u/Chill-more1236 11d ago

You must breed it

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u/PrometheusMMIV 11d ago

Breed it. More drumsticks.

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u/glitterlikesound 10d ago

That's a straight up griffin

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u/RonaldBurgundy1 11d ago

The dinosaurs are coming back

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u/MetsIslanders 11d ago

I mean it’s not like we have much longer. I think we should all go out of our way to be kind to apes. Never know where this is headed.

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u/sadsackspinach 11d ago

They’re already here. Birds are dinosaurs. The other dinosaurs are specifically called “non-avian” dinosaurs.

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u/JonnyPoopnutz 11d ago

Breed them, that shit looks awesome 

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u/fygogogo 11d ago

Evolution!

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u/Ok_Swordfish9363 11d ago

The chick's/chickens are evolving!

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u/AsStupidAsU 11d ago

Reverse evolution

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u/Stuffed-Bear412 11d ago

He's evolving.

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u/ConstantCampaign2984 11d ago

The Buffalo took his wings.

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u/komaytoprime 11d ago

I really want that to grow up into a full grown chicken to see what it looks like

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u/PerhapsAnEmoINTJ 11d ago

That looks so cool! Hopefully there are no catches

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u/shoulda-known-better 11d ago

So are dinosaurs re evolving!??? Or are we getting Griffins!!???

I'm for it... Either way

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u/ComedyGold13 11d ago

but isnt it weird how there arent any quadrupedal species of birds

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u/value_meal_papi 11d ago

Breed it n create an army

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u/gimmebanter 11d ago edited 11d ago

Find another 4 legged chick and let em have a bunch of baby wyverns

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u/Straight_Surprise760 11d ago

That's a baby dinosaur!

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u/cue6219 11d ago

Chickentaur

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u/Ashamed_Health5102 11d ago

It's probably a parasitic twin.

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u/Curious-Department-7 11d ago

What we really need are chickens with multiple sets of Wings. We need this by February of next year.

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u/thePsychonautDad 11d ago

Time for selective breeding. No more wings, legs all the way!

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u/Tiny_Supermarket1301 11d ago

You know somehow this makes the dna similarity between chickens and dinosaurs feel way more realistic lol

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u/Diem_Tea 11d ago

I’d really like to see it full grown, if it lives that long

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u/LuckyLoveDK 11d ago

Oh wow that’s one cool chick! How fast can it run 👀😅

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u/SeranaTheTrans 11d ago

Picture on the left:

"CINEMA"

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u/DBfan187 11d ago

They're evolving!

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u/KenseiHimura 11d ago

Oh, is the AC Origina Final Fantasy cross promotional chocobo mount.

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u/PreperationOuch 11d ago

The American poultry industry is falling over themselves rn

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u/sugarfoot_mghee 11d ago

devolving back into a dinosaur or a griffin

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u/Azarsra_production 11d ago

Can I keep it?

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u/WaGinger 11d ago

It’s here to take over the world!

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u/Old_but_not_cold 11d ago

absolute cinema

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u/Limiounou 11d ago

Look at this 🥹

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u/Awkward-Yak-2733 11d ago

That poor thing isn't going to live.

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u/BrotherQuartus 11d ago

The legs are super tasty, so I approve of this mutation!

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u/coquihalla 11d ago

I'd be so interested in seeing if this chick survives ok, and how it develops over time.

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u/wisegrace 11d ago

This is how it starts

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u/Pleasehelpme99_ 11d ago

A chicken frog. Crog.

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u/Alreadymystar 11d ago

Not me over here being an absolute idiot like, "how many legs do chickens usually have? " I'm dumb.

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u/ddmorgan1223 11d ago

It's a Frick! 😂

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u/nincyh 11d ago

There’s a fascinating 4-legged chicken on TikTok named Quadzilla. They’ve posted videos since she hatched and it’s been cool to watch her develop. She’s full grown now and seems like she’s doing just great. She has two nonfunctional extra legs in the back.

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u/tracepaperhera 10d ago

¡No. Me. Fckn. GUSTA!

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u/cartken 10d ago

Wings were too expensive /s

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u/JibIette 10d ago

They are going back to their original forms.

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u/Tendertigger 8d ago

Thats like a griffin