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Featherless Chickens

Posted by michael on from the inevitable-finger-licking-jokes dept.

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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  1. Do they play well together? by rehannan · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?