How many legs does this rooster have? What do Internet celebrity experts say?

“The egg-laying rooster, the ‘fighting chicken’ among roosters.” This sketch line is widely known. Of course, the egg-laying rooster is just a joke. In a villager's home in Feixi County, a four-legged rooster actually exists. Its appearance has brought a lot of fun to the village.

The rooster has four legs

This peculiar rooster was raised by Uncle Wu’s family in Magang Village, Huagang Town, Feixi County. On the morning of January 21, the reporter came to Uncle Wu’s house and witnessed the appearance of a four-legged rooster. "The rooster has four legs, it's amazing." Many villagers commented. The owner of the rooster, Uncle Wu, told reporters that he and his son opened a chicken farm together. When I was selling it, I caught the chicken and discovered that it had four legs.

Uncle Wu, who has been raising chickens for more than ten years, saw this for the first time, which made him feel very strange. The reporter saw that this rooster was no different from an ordinary chicken in other places, but the chicken's tail had two extra legs and two chicken claws, which were slightly thinner than the two front legs. The extra two legs could be stretched backwards. It can shrink, but it can't walk while hanging in mid-air. After hearing the news, the neighbors rushed to find out what was going on, and they all said they had never heard such a strange thing before. For a time, the four-legged rooster became the "star" in the village, and there was an endless stream of guests visiting Uncle Wu's house. Everyone has posted on Moments or Weibo to attract everyone’s attention. The rooster quickly became an "Internet celebrity".

This chicken is looking for food everywhere in the yard. Its behavior is no different from other chickens. It walks on two legs and the other two legs are half hanging or curled up under its belly. Uncle Wu said that since the chicken became a "star" in the village, he did not plan to sell it or eat it, so he kept it in his yard. "It would be good to bring fun to everyone."

Gene mutation causes

Why does the rooster have four legs? Jiang Hao, deputy director of Hefei Wildlife Park, said that this kind of four-legged chicken is the product of developmental abnormalities. The fertilized eggs did not divide normally during development or were affected by other factors, which was caused by genetic mutations. Jiang Hao said that this kind of chicken is edible and will not have any impact on people, but it may be visually uncomfortable. The extra two legs generally have no function, do not affect its survival, and are not inherited. But due to lack of exercise in the extra legs, the muscles will gradually atrophy.