Four-legged chick

This four-legged Barnevelder chicken was hatched earlier this week in a home incubator in Waikato, New Zealand. It walks on its bottom legs. The chicken-breeding family may name the chick "Jack-peg-a-leg." From the Waikato Times:

A battery of researchers have found four-legged chickens are not unheard of but Poultry Industry Association executive director Mike Brooks said they were as rare as hens' teeth and were something he had heard of but never seen.

Other four-legged chickens had been reported in Romania and Saudi Arabia.

Hamilton vet Keith Houston said in the Dickey's chick case, stem cells in the egg had divided into four instead of two, meaning an extra pair of legs.

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