An Egyptian poultry trader found a four-legged cock among chickens he bought from a farm, the official Mena news agency reported on Saturday.
The cock, which also had two excretory tracts, weighed 2,5kg, said the man from Kafr Saqr in al-Sharqiya province, 86km north-east of Cairo.
“Its behaviour was normal,” the man added.
Mena quoted veterinarian Mohammed Abdul Aziz as saying the cock’s extra attributes may have been the result of an incomplete fertilisation of an egg to form a twin. — AFP