Hen is a double layer

A farmer was left shell-shocked when he discovered why one of his hens laid twice as many eggs as others — it has two rears.

Mao Rui’an thought he had cracked when he noticed his hen’s astonishing egg-laying rate. But then he discovered her secret in a routine health check.



The broody bird was born with two backsides — or vents — which can reproduce and lay eggs independently of each other.

Mao of Qingdao, eastern China, said: “She is now very special to us and I have built a coop just for her and while the other chickens graze on the grass, she gets wheat."