Squishypuff wrote:
unkcommentator wrote:
Squishypuff wrote:

Can we stop bashing on NG and think up explanations for my bird's spontaneous sex change?


Alien implants.


OMG, it's so simple! How could I not have realized? Thank you so much, Unk.

Now, does anyone have any idea which aliens would do such a sick thing to me and my rooster?


We had a male ostrich at work that was in with a group of 5 others. Male ostrich are very different to females - they have black and white feathers instead of brown and they have a red beak and legs while the females are dull greyish/brown. I remember saying to someone one day that this male was looking a bit strange - as he moulted he was growing in brown feathers. Then he lost all his red. And then he started laying eggs!! Apparently it's not uncommon in birds to be hermaphrodite. Well not as uncommon as in other species anyway.


'With age comes wisdom... and the ability to look back and think to oneself "WTF was I thinking?!"' JB