[Theshooter2012]

This is really strange but i let out a fully grown hen pheasant with dark brownish or redish feathers like a cock pheasant but it had no ring or green head or red around its eyes so i let it out thinking it was similar to a melanastic pheasant except a hen. So a few weeks later i started hearing Cackles and my father said he seen a pheasant cock molting but he said it was very large to be molting and we never seen the hen again.So i started to wonder a few weeks ago if the hen changed into a cock and i found this online.
Bird's rare sex change stuns zoo.

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com....php?id=225291

so i would just like to see what other people think i am not sure about but it could happen according to this article.

[TriggerPL]

right lad all write to the npws , we can no longer be sure it a hen or a cock undercover , so were going to have to shoot them all .

funny story tho .

[djflawless]

it can happen to a chicken cant it?well not full blown slice and dice below job but cackling like a rooster etc

[Birdnuts]

Tis weird allright - its common enough in fish(in the Shannon some fish are changing sex due to exposure to chemicals in sewage!!) but I 've never heard about it in birds. Though like humans i'm sure you can get hemaphrodites