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[sheepdog]

OH Please! Where do you guys come up with this crazy horse hockey?

First of all, I know chicken when I taste it. And besides, how can you grow a chicken in a tube and have the pieces all come out in normal chicken shaped pieces? While science has had many far out new advances, I don't think test tube chickens is on that list.

Also, to my knowledge, there are no featherless chickens developed by chicken breeders yet. Now there is what they call a Turkin, or naked neck chicken, these birds have no feathers on their necks. I don't know why they call them Turkins, since they are in no way related to Turkeys. It is a fairly popular breed of chicken, I'm not sure of the exact reason for the developement of the breed, unless it is to simplyfy butchering. If you've ever plucked a chicken you know the neck feathers are a bit of a nusance to pluck.

As to beakless. Well, no, not quite. Broiler chicks and laying hens have their beaks clipped shortly after hatching. They only take off a bit of the tip, and it is to prevent cannibalism that is rampant in chickens housed together. It prevents them from pecking and killing each other. Chickens are mean, cantankerous birds, and if one gets a tiny blood spot on it, the other chickens in the flock will peck that chicken to death.