Abstract
STRUCTURAL anomalies involving the persistency of the right ovary, oviduct and/or oviducal orifices in the adult female domestic fowl have been reported many times. Kaupp (1922) photographed the gonads of a hen showing two functional ovaries and oviducts. Schott and Curtis (1928) observed a hen possessing structural doubling, including two ovaries, two oviducts and two orifices; however, only the left ovary, oviduct and orifice were functional. Crew (1931) found a Brown Leghorn hen with a normal left ovary associated with completely differentiated left and right oviducts.Champion (1955) reported one fowl he had examined possessed an exceptionally well-developed right oviduct, along with a fully functional left ovary and oviduct, but was unable to find evidence of actual functional activity in the right oviduct of his specimen. Kirkpatrick and Card (1916), McKenney (1931), Quinn, Burrows and McNally (1939) and Bryant (1944) also made similar observations.In January, 1958, a White Plymouth …
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