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An egg is a beautiful, sophisticated thing that can create even more sophisticated things, such as chickens.
A fellow by the name of Matthew Harris at the University of Wisconsin in Madison actually figured out a way to stimulate the gene for teeth, and so was able to actually turn the tooth gene on and produce teeth in chickens.
And chickens and ducks and geese and turkeys are basically as dumb as dumps.
Whereas the chickens are actually mature within a couple of months.
So childhood is the reason why the crows end up on the cover of Science and the chickens end up in the soup pot.
It feeds a lot of chickens, hogs, cattle and it generates ethanol to put into our gasoline, which is regulated by federal policy.
Real falcons out of slightly doctored chickens.
We'll get help from Bob Lanza and Mike McGrew to get that into germ plasm that can go into chickens that can produce passenger pigeon squabs that can be raised by band-tailed pigeon parents, and then from then on, it's passenger pigeons all the way, maybe for the next six million years.
Two farmers, Thomas Lee and Tinie Causby, who raised chickens, had a significant complaint because of these technologies.
The complaint was that their chickens followed the pattern of the airplanes and flew themselves into the walls of the barn when the airplanes flew over the land.
There's no more chickens.
We were shaking like two chickens that had been rained on, and we looked at him.
The man had cut his finger, he worked processing chickens, and then he started to smell really, really bad.
It's a very elaborate and beautiful dance, but I'm going to just give you a close-up on one piece of it, and that is the relationship between his cattle and his chickens, his laying hens.
But he waits that long to grow them as big and juicy and tasty as he can because they are the chickens' favorite form of protein.
So the chickens do their kind of little breakdance and they're pushing around the manure to get at the grubs, and in the process they're spreading the manure out.
An evolutionary biologist at Purdue University named William Muir studied chickens.
He wanted to know what could make his chickens more productive, so he devised a beautiful experiment.
Chickens live in groups, so first of all, he selected just an average flock, and he let it alone for six generations.
The individually productive chickens had only achieved their success by suppressing the productivity of the rest.
And it's not just fish that we're feeding fish to, we're also feeding fish to chickens and pigs.
So we've got chickens and they're eating fish, but weirdly, we also have fish that are eating chickens.
One organization gave them goats and chickens.
But they didn't realize that there was so much hunger in that community, that when the Deaf went to sleep at night and couldn't hear, people broke into their yards and their homes and stole these chickens and goats, and eventually they were all gone.
The earliest domesticated chickens, dating at least back to 7,000 years ago, weren’t bred for food, but for something considered less savory today.
By the second millennium BCE, chickens had spread from the Indus Valley to China and the Middle East to occupy royal menageries and to be used in religious rituals.
Around the same time as Egyptians were incubating eggs, Phoenician merchants introduced chickens to Europe, where they quickly became an essential part of European livestock.
The Romans consulted chickens as oracles.
Over the next few centuries, chickens accompanied humans wherever they went, spreading throughout the world through trade, conquest, and colonization.
After the Opium Wars, Chinese breeds were brought to England and crossed with local chickens.
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