162-gram Egg laid by 1.25 kg Hen

Chandigarh (Punjab): A Lohman breed hen weighing 1.25 kg has laid an egg whose weight is 162 gram, which is unusual claims poultry farm owner.

The ten-month old hen which has been laying eggs for the past four months surprised Surinder Kumar Joshi, the owner of the poultry farm when she laid the egg on Thursday last.Joshi, who has a two-acre farm in Punjab's Derabassi, about 25 km from here, said when his supervisor Asaum Lal first saw the egg he could not believe his eyes."It was a pleasant surprise when we saw the egg.

The same hen like other hens of her breed and most other hens normally lay eggs weighing between 50-60 gram," he said on Monday showing the unusual white-color egg. Read more..................................................Too heavy: 1.25 kg weighing hen lays 162-gram egg

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Hen sacrificed for India's victory in Cricket final

In Mahendra Singh Dhoni's city Ranchi in Jharkhand State of India, a group of tribals here sacrificed a hen and prayed to god to ward off evil spirits so that India defeats Australia in the finals of Cricket triangular series.

"There is a belief in our culture that sacrifice of animals appease our god and it also helps in warding off the evil spirit," said Putkar Hembrom, a tribal priest.

He said: "It seems that India is under the shadow of evil sprit. India manages to reach to the finals in cricket but loses the final match".

The tribals prayed to god, put vermilion on the head of the chicken and lit incense sticks. After praying to god, they sacrificed the chicken. "We hope India will trounce Australia in the final match," said Soma Munda, another tribal priest.

The tribals also feel that Dhoni committed a mistake by changing his hairstyle.

"Dhoni's power and concentration came from his long hair. Dhoni should not have got his hair cut," said Sohrai Oraon, a tribal.

As two more matches of Cricket finals between India & Australia still remains so it seems more hens shall lose their lives in sacrifice...........How weird!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Hen turn into a Cock - Naturally

An Indian veterinarian claims to have seen a rare, spontaneous Sex change of a bird.
The Hen laid eggs six months ago - and some hatched - but it later began to grow a rooster's comb, said Partha Sarathi Ghosh, a veterinarian at West Bengal state's Animal Husbandry Department , quoting the bird's owner.

Earlier this week Ghosh and a team of experts visited the village of Kamat -Chengrabanda where the incident occurred.

Ghosh said the bird had undergone a process of natural sex change.

"Sure, it's rare," the veterinarian said, adding that owner Haziruddin Mohammad has called the incident a miracle and refused to hand over the bird to the Animal Husbandry Department.

"Every once in a while you hear a story about a hen that changed into a cock. Such stories are often meet with skepticism, but sex reversals do, in fact, occur, although not very frequently," says a 2000 report published by the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.

The study said spontaneous sex reversals can result from damage to one ovary.
It said that there are reports of some such birds fathering offspring, but that most never do.

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