{"id":648,"date":"2018-08-30t13:39:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-30t13:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poultry.mystagingwebsite.com\/?page_id=648"},"modified":"2018-08-30t13:39:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30t13:39:45","slug":"hen-feathered","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"\/\/www.bkpromos.com\/glossary\/hen-feathered\/","title":{"rendered":"hen-feathered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: noto serif,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"><strong style=\"background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;\"><em style=\"background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;\">written by<\/em><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); display: inline; float: none; font-family: &quot;helvetica neue&quot;,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">: dr. jacquie jacob, university of kentucky<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b><font color=\"#333333\">hen-feathered <\/font><\/b><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;helvetica neue&quot;,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">is having female plumage characteristics. in the sebright and campine breeds, the male chicken is hen-feathered,\u00a0as exemplified by the male (left) and female (right) silver sebright bantam chickens shown below. the male has rounded feathers rather than the pointed feathers typical of males.\u00a0a female chicken&#8217;s plumage pattern is dependent on the presence of estrogen to feminize the feather follicle\u2014that is, to direct the follicle to produce rounded feathers\u2014in the hackles and tail. the sebright and campine breeds have a single gene mutation that results in the excess production of the enzyme aromatase in several tissues, including feather follicles. aromatase is the enzyme responsible for the conversion of androgens to estrogens. as a result, the feather follicles of male sebright and campine chickens have a level of estrogen sufficient to feminize the growing feathers.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/poultry.mystagingwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sebrightpair-300x226.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/poultry.mystagingwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sebrightpair-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"male and female silver-laced sebright bantam chickens\" class=\"wp-image-649\" srcset=\"\/\/www.bkpromos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sebrightpair-300x226.jpg 300w, \/\/www.bkpromos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sebrightpair-768x579.jpg 768w, \/\/www.bkpromos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sebrightpair.jpg 952w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>male (left) and female (right) silver-laced sebright bantam chickens. source: jacquie jacob, university of i kentucky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &quot;helvetica neue&quot;,helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"><\/span><br\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>written by: dr. jacquie jacob, university of kentucky hen-feathered is having female plumage characteristics. in the sebright and campine breeds, the male chicken is hen-feathered,\u00a0as exemplified by the male (left) and female (right) silver sebright bantam chickens shown below. the male has rounded feathers rather than the pointed feathers typical of males.\u00a0a female chicken&#8217;s plumage &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"\/\/www.bkpromos.com\/glossary\/hen-feathered\/\" class=\"more-link\">continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;hen-feathered&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":643,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-648","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.bkpromos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/648"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.bkpromos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.bkpromos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.bkpromos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.bkpromos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/\/www.bkpromos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"\/\/www.bkpromos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/648\/revisions\/650"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.bkpromos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.bkpromos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}