“I saw him on top of my duck, and I thought fine, they aren’t supposed to breed anyway,” said Rydeen. But, somehow, they did breed, and Ducken was the result. “At first I was calling it Chuck,” she said. “But that’s more like a chicken-duck, when actually it’s a duck-chicken, so I was thinking of Ducken as a name.”
Ducken, whose sex is still to be determined, has some difficulty maintaining balance, which Rydeen believes is due to the weight of Ducken’s head which has what appears to be a chicken leg protruding from it. She is not certain Ducken will live much longer. “If he lives, it’s meant to be,” she said. “And if he dies, it’s meant to be. I just can’t put it down. I can’t kill it. I can’t kill anything, frankly.”
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For now though, Ducken seems to be happy, making typical duck-like noises and demonstrating alertness to his/her surroundings. Rydeen said despite the unusual growth, Ducken appears very similar to a typical newborn duckling. Scientists say it is unlikely that a rooster and a duck can successfully breed.
5 comments:
It might taste delicious when it's breaded and fried.
Yeah...unlikely. Understatement. It would be like a dog and a monkey breeding successfully. They're that far apart. Not even in the same order.
...though they are in the same superorder, so it's more like a rabbit and monkey making a hybrid. Still...the scientists are humoring stupid, medieval thinking
Additionally...chickens can have webbed foot mutations and ducks can have the opposite. This is probably a parasitic twin/chymerism situation and not a hybrid of even two different duck breeds.
Beyond that, and showing that I know too much about ducks, female ducks have elaborate internal genitals. Even a male with the right 'key' can have difficulty fertilizing them. Roosters don't have penises at all, much less the eccentric ones ducks have.
That is just an ugly duckling.
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