They made a hairless chicken.

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Christine: actually dogs, cats and horses with white patches on the soft skin around their faces get sunburnt. Which is why you see some horses with little veils across their noses in the summer. And why some rich people get their pets tatooed - tatooed skin doesn't burn.

Also: yuck yuck yuck featerless chickens, poor things, more infections and parasites?

― isadora, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Considering the amount of desertification that western countries have caused in the hottest countries of the third world it seems a bit rich for us to complain about people just trying to make enough food to eat. i haven't read much about this but i was under the impression that the chicken was the result of a natural mutation rather than being "made". I wouldn't eat this chicken but then i live in a rich society so i don't have to eat any animal products to survive, and i expect that this sort of chicken will be in a no worse state than the battery chickens being kept a few kms from my house. Of course its easier to shock people on the TV news with a featherless chicken.

the idea of engineering living things for profit really freaks me out.

Does anyone have a link to the place that did this? i thought that it didn't involve any engineering and it had been done by a non-profit institution.

― hamish, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

it's ok - i heard on teh radio last night that here in oz they are using chicken skin for leather products now - the chicken will survive!

― Queen G of the Arctic Nile, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't see how it is much different from the work that dog breeders do to create breads. Do you think the people that first set eyes on the pekingese were disgusted?

Even though the look a bit weird, I like the hairless cat. It's supposed to be like having a living hot water bottle. I've got bad allergies, so it would be ideal to have a hairless cat.

― Marianna, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't see how it is much different from the work that dog breeders do to create breads.

The boxer-baguette!

― Dan Perry, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Chihuawabatta!

― N., Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hi guys... Sorry but chickens have never had hair, only feathers... If they are growing a real chicken without feathers though, I'll stand in line and buy one for sure. If they start growing boneless chickens, just think! We'll get more meat for our money :) :)

― Gale, Monday, 27 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

five years pass...

chicken rilp

― chaki, Monday, 7 January 2008 02:04 (sixteen years ago) link

-- Gale, Sunday, May 26, 2002 8:00 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

― and what, Monday, 7 January 2008 02:06 (sixteen years ago) link

I kinda miss Gale

― Mackro Mackro, Monday, 7 January 2008 04:09 (sixteen years ago) link

More dog breads!

― HI DERE, Monday, 7 January 2008 16:28 (sixteen years ago) link

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