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Chickens Hatch Aboard Chinese Space Module

Posted by timothy on from the tastes-like-�� dept.

Buzx writes: "It seems China is closing in on her goal of joining the small club of space-faring nations. Three chickens hatched aboard a Shenzhou space module after seven days in orbit. This reminds me of the U.S.'s experiments with monkeys (anyone remember Ham?) and the USSR's space dog, Laika."

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  1. More info from media with China by AtomicBomb · · Score: 3, Informative
    Some more interesting info from media within China:
    • That native species of chicken is called "black chicken", light coloured feather, black skin, ordinary colored flesh.
    • This type of chicken was selected due to two reason:
      1. genetically stable and well-studied in China
      2. The eggs are smaller, so that they can fit more to the container.
    • They do mention the failure ones and are quite happy with the 3 out of 9 hatches.