This Article is About Shemale Chickens

See what I did there?  I made this one pretty catchy and easy to follow, because when it comes to science I want to capture the imagination of the everyman and explain things in a fun and informative way that the whole family can enjoy.  So get grandma and the kids, we’re going to talk about how chickens are all fucked up.

According to some new research, chickens don’t become male or female the same way people do, which may be due to the fact chickens are chickens.  So, you know, not human.  Like at all.

Humans have two X chromosomes to become a female, or XY to become male.  Pretty simple, right?  They’re all up in your gonads when you’re embryonic and they determine what you’ll become.  Chickens, on the other hand, can have ZZ to become male, or ZW to be female.  Sounds reasonable enough.  Except that while your sex chromosomes are jammed smack in the middle of your junk, they’re everywhere inside chickens.  All cells have them.  So some chicken cells will be ZZ and others will be ZW.  What does that mean?  Means this chicken nugget will be a girl, that one will be a boy and both came from the same chicken breast.

The result for the chicken is that it might have male feathers on one half of its body and female feathers on the other.  Or, you know, maybe it will cry at shitty movies, but then later it will jerk off with your hand while you’re asleep.  It’s all kinds of confused.

Humans get to rely on hormones to determine whether we’re going to look male or female.  That’s why when you eat all your mom’s birth control pills for a few months straight, you’re pretty much fucked and your nipples hurt.  Chickens don’t have to worry about any of that.  Their individual cells make them look like dudes, ladies or trannies as the situation dictates and no hormones are going to change that, thus proving the world of chicken cross dressing is a weird one at best.

In practical terms, this probably means almost nothing to anyone.  Seriously.  You don’t have to cook your chicken any differently.  If you raise chickens though, or maybe you live in a shanty town with a lot of the little buggers running around, make sure you pay close attention to any weird looking ones in the future, like if any of the egg layers seem dykey or anything.  You may just be witnessing the wonder of nature first hand.

Now go tell your friends.