Good news for us chicken folks (maybe)

[poppy]

They have altered the DNA of chickens to give them alligator-like jaws instead of beaks. The good news is maybe we won't have to worry about possums or raccoons or hawks any longer. On the down side, collecting eggs from a hen sitting on the nest could pose problems.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ken-snout.html

[RebelCowboySnB]

The scientific revelation of 'rewinding' evolution could pave the way for scientists altering DNA in the other direction and use the same process to create species better able to adapt to Earth's climate.

Ugh.... Um ok.... Evolution has worked fine sense the beginning of time but they are going to fix it.....

[EDDIE BUCK]

Never tried any chicken jowls and blackeyed peas on New Years Day for money to come our way.

Just been going with the hog jowls and blackeyed peas so far.As far as the money comin our way,if we were real lucky, we would have a few jowls hanging in the smoke house, and all we would have to do is scrape up enough nickles and dimes to by a bag of peas the following year.

The funny thing was when the smokehouse was jowless,we'ed call "Old Blue"out from under the house and go catch a coon.Sell the hide and buy four or five bags of peas, plus have Bar be cued coon.

As good of eating as that was,after about a week,the coon had been gone and moma had just rewarmed the last of the peas, the whole family was back in a depressed state of being just thinking of living till next year on the luck of a coon,who ever heard of such loleb

[HeelSpur]

to funny, chicken jowls.

[Wisconsin Ann]

There's a problem with this logic of giving them better jowls to defend against possums and coons...after dark you can pretty much walk up to a chicken and saw off it's legs without it waking up.

With a hawk...I've watched an eagle take a chicken...they swoop down and grab the back..bingo! broken back. Not much a chicken can do even it if had steel teeth at that point

[Curtis B]

Would they taste like chicken or gator? I really like gator meat, but sure wouldn't want to raise one. I also would wonder how hard would it be to pluck a gaten, or chator.

[oth47]

Gator teeth on a chicken?? None for me,thanx,I have an old hen that pecks me from fingertip to elbow every time I take the eggs out from under her.She's brought blood a time or two,I can't imagine what she'd do with teeth..not hardly,no way,no how.