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chicken fib(ula)- what purpose does the tiny splinter of a bone in a drumstick currently serve, could it be bred out of chicken
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Asked by donkman
on 2010-07-19 05:42:21

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What is inside these chicken eggs?
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Asked by cl237
on 2010-07-12 22:30:48

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Would it be possible to genetically modify battery chickens to feel nothing at all?

To stop battery chickens from feeling any pain or claustrophobia in their short lives would it be possible for scientists to genetically modify them to have no pain receptors, touch receptors, be blind and not be able to see. I know this sounds even worse in ethical terms but would it stop the sufferance of the chickens as they would not know what would be going on and would only know how to eat and lay numerous amounts of eggs.

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Asked by Cynfelyn
on 2009-11-15 19:40:46

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How could one egg be two strikingly different colours on each hemisphere?

One of my young chickens has just produced an unusually coloured egg (to the right of the photo). The egg on the left is more typical of the breed.

I know egg shell colour is variable, even in eggs laid by the same hen on different days, but how did one egg undergo such a sudden and distinct colour change?

Colin Booth, Durham, UK