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Featherless Chickens
Everyone and their brother wrote in about the featherless chicken. Besides the humor value, interesting in that we're creating another species with qualities that suit humans but unsuitable for life on its own.
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When I saw this I immediately thought of that old internet "conspiracy" about Kentucky Fried Chicken. I think it was called Animal 54 or something like that.
Basically, KFC had genetically altered their chickens so much that the FDA told them to stop using the word "chicken", hence the name change to KFC from Kentucky Fried Chicken. The 'species' of the animal had been changed to Animal #54, since it was no longer a chicken - it couldn't fly and sat there getting fat until feeding time.
Anyone have a link? Sounds funny but apparently alot of people thought it was true - my mom being one of them.
Lets see you laugh when it's you going bald.
*sob*
I'm out of my tree just now but please feel free to leave a banana.
Don't mean to spoil everyone's fun but I completely fail to see what's funny about breeding an animal so it loses an important part of it's body.
Well that "important" body part actually kills it in hot areas, so by removing it you increase it's ability to survive. The funny part comes in because it's a living rubber chicken!
"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"
Growing up, we usually had anywhere from 10 to 50 chickens. If one chicken lost a few of it's feathers and the skin became exposed, the other chickens would usually begin pecking the poor bird with the missing feathers. We had one chicken that had it's brain exposed from this pecking. (There's a product you can smear on the wound to keep the other chickens from doing this.)
Has this geneticist put any of these featherless chickens together?
I laughed so hard I nearly peed myself. A mule is the offspring of a Horse and Donkey, fer cryin' out loud! I'm pretty sure it's a female horse (mare) and male donkey (jack).
I'd pay good money to see the offspring of a horse and goat!
Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.
Um... wow... I feel like a moron. You are, of course, right. I was thinking mule, but I was looking at a pic of my sister and thought donkey. Thanks for the correction.
...And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me." - Martin Niemoeller (1892-1984)
Six years ago, one of my little cousins referred to all chicken as "Bawk Bawk".
*...imagines her cousin's future, twenty-thirty years from now...*
"Dada, can me have Bald Bald?"
Or would that be a Living Rubber Chicken with a Pully in the Middle?
Sorry, I played monkey island a few too many times.