Featherless chickens

[abunaitoo]

Ever heard of featherless chickens????
Seems in England there are really featherless chickens.
Even stranger is they have old retired ladied that sew little sweaters for these chickens.
Sweathers keep them warm at night and keep them from getting sunburned during the day.
I think they were bred without feathers so they could be processed easier.

[crabo]

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://oddanimals.com/images/featherless-chicken.jpeg&imgrefurl=http://oddanimals.com/featherless-chicken/&h=326&w=444&sz=42&tbnid=fiay4V-cOEuqEM:&tbnh=101&tbnw=138&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dfeatherless%2Bchickens%26tbm%3Disch%2 6tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=featherless+chickens&docid=H0fgjLD41zuZCM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=eB2mTqD-EuKHsALZz5jpDw&sqi=2&ved=0CDwQ9QEwAw&dur=2903

http://www.nextnature.net/2006/10/featherless-chicken/

Too strange

[cbrick]

I loved this part of the story . . .

The chicken is “disgusting”, says Joyce D’Silva of Compassion in World Farming. “It’s a prime example of sick science and the suggestion that it would be an improvement for developing countries is obscene.”

“Factory farming is such an inappropriate technology for developing countries because it uses scarce resources like water, electricity and grain that could be used for human consumption

Growing food in devoloping countries is a really bad thing I guess. Better to let them starve than have meat.

I wonder, do ya suppose Joyce D’Silva of Compassion in World Farming might have ever missed a meal because there was nothing to eat? :veryconfu

Rick

[Boz330]

That is one really ugly chicken, I think I would rather pluck them than look at the naked chicken.:lol:
Rick, there are a bunch of misguided people that want to save farm animals from being killed for food. What they don't understand is that the animals can't take care of themselves and would be extinct in short order if they had no value other than eating and breathing. As the motor city mad man says, " if you want to save a species from extinction, find a good recipe for them".

Bob

[JeffinNZ]

i yelled, don't look ethel..............

[Tom W.]

Boy, that would sure make my job easier....

[ss40_70]

4 out of 5 of the posts have been made from morons. Can you tell which ones I’m talking about? ahh good stuff , opps i should point out that quote was taken from the comments on next nature

[Crawdaddy]

yuck, these are ugly chickens.

[montana_charlie]

i yelled, don't look ethel..............

Too late, she'd already been incensed ...

[justingrosche]

I worked in Puerto Rico for a while, and cock fighting is their national pastime there. Those chickens are featherless but I'd always assumed they plucked them.

[Beerd]

I worked in Puerto Rico for a while, and cock fighting is their national pastime there. Those chickens are featherless but I'd always assumed they plucked them.

I wouldn't want to be the one doing the pluckin' on them roosters
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[beagle]

Elmer Keith wrote and interesting story about featherless chickens in one of his books. Worth reading if you can find it./beagle

[1Shirt]

Wouldnt make a good billboard for KFC for sure!
1Shirt!:coffeecom

[DLCTEX]

i yelled, don't look ethel..............

That's funny Jeff!

[DCM]

That's funny Jeff!

+1 on that! My wife looked at the same time I did, we both had the same reaction!