which ovary is functional in a chicken
Obviously, chickens couldn't have established their empire without reproduction, so I thought I'd take a behind-the-scenes look at how chickens became so prominent. As it turns out, chicken procreation is a lot weirder than I thought. Here are just a few of the finer points. 1) Asymmetrical gonads. Here's how gonads are usually arranged: males have two testes, and females have two ovaries. Both genders usually have one gonad on the right side of their body and one on the left. It's pretty simple. In contrast, hens only have one functional ovary.