"Sit down. I have to tell you about a bisexual pigeon and all of the drama that he has brought to my barn. Our story starts with this king. The bird was paired with a red one that we thought was a girl. The two bonded, paired. And just never laid eggs. But, when you gave them babies, they would raise them. Turns out the red is a male."
"What gets funny is, that the almond and this male and his current wife are all raising the two babies together. They're in a little pigeon throuple. I've never seen it before. It's the craziest thing."
"You really don't know the gender of a pigeon until it either starts cooing and strutting and acting like a male performing, or until it lays an egg. When they've paired and they've raised babies together, you pretty well know."
Chase Barnes, a veterinarian and gay farmer near Kansas City, posted a viral Instagram video documenting an unusual pigeon family dynamic. He discovered that an almond-colored Italian Owl pigeon he believed was paired with a female was actually bonded with a male. The almond pigeon later formed a relationship with a hen, and all three birds are now collectively raising two babies together in what Barnes describes as a pigeon throuple. The video gained significant attention, landing Barnes and his partner Zach in People magazine. Barnes explained that pigeon genders cannot be definitively determined until they exhibit specific behaviors or lay eggs, making the discovery of this polyamorous arrangement particularly surprising.
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