# New Breed of Chicken **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 21, 2002, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-breed-of-chicken/110115 "2002-05-21T15:55:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Turbo\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@Turbo\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turbo_Dog)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-breed-of-chicken/110115/1 "2002-05-21T15:55:11Z")
Originally I was going to put this in MPSIMS, but figured it was bound to turn into a debate. I just came across an article on [Featherless Chickens](http://www.thisislondon.com/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=590366&in_review_text_id=558671) and found it pretty cool. I think it’s absurd enough that it would be a pretty cool pet, even though I hate chickens. A little leather jacket on one would make for the ultimate pet for punk rockers. I also found the idea that it would be traumatic to the chickens humorous. Are the other chickens going to tease them? Any thoughts? (Still chuckling) ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-breed-of-chicken/110115/2 "2002-05-21T16:25:23Z")
Small correction - it was developed not at the “Rehovot Institute”, but rather at the Weitzman Institute in Rehovot, one of the world’s leading biotech research facilities. Interestingly, it’s the same place that invented the seedless watermellon. ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-breed-of-chicken/110115/3 "2002-05-21T17:44:21Z")
This is my favorite bit: > [@](#): > > Adrian Bebb of Friends of the Earth said: “This is scientists tampering with our food again just to make it even cheaper. I think it will have a traumatic effect on animals and the public will be horrified.” I’m sorry, but why would I be horrified at the thought of cheaper chicken? So the thing has no feathers, unlike the “natural” chicken. I can’t remember the time I needed the feathers off a chicken anyway. And if it knocks the price down a few cents per pound, I’m all for it!! So, in short, yea genetics, boo FOTE/PETA/whoever. Up with naked chickens, down with silly people. [sub]And dare I suggest **Naked Chicken** == great band name?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-breed-of-chicken/110115/4 "2002-05-21T17:46:39Z")
I’ve seen them on TV and the nudist chickens look like they need a sweater. Who wants to see a naked cock? Being a thigh-man myself, I think a better idea is the [three legged chicken](http://www.tao.ca/~ban/899MSmillionmutants.htm). I think the problem is they run so fast no one is able to catch them. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-breed-of-chicken/110115/5 "2002-05-21T17:52:58Z")
I suppose the next step is creating a skinless chicken, for the cholesterol-conscious. That would be pretty disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![Threadkiller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@Threadkiller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Threadkiller)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-breed-of-chicken/110115/6 "2002-05-21T17:54:44Z")
I want to see them tackle the skinless chicken. ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-breed-of-chicken/110115/7 "2002-05-21T17:57:03Z")
A skinless chicken?? You mean circumcised? I would prefer a _boneless_ chicken. That would be something. ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-breed-of-chicken/110115/8 "2002-05-21T18:00:20Z")
Also, while [headless chicken](http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/) has been achieved, developing a breed of it would be neat. ---
**Author:** ![Turbo\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@Turbo\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turbo_Dog)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-breed-of-chicken/110115/9 "2002-05-21T18:08:30Z")
Chicken Slugs… Slickens? Chugs? I’m all for that but bite your tongues on the skinless bit. Chicken without skin is like beer without alcohol, chili peppers without heat, or skim milk… pointless. Maybe a Sharpei chicken to get more skin? A naked, doubleskinned, three legged chicken would be a wonderful thing. (Still chuckling at the thought of that chicken in a spiked collar) ---
**Author:** ![MachV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@MachV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MachV)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-breed-of-chicken/110115/10 "2002-05-21T21:10:55Z")
> [@](#): > > A naked, doubleskinned, three legged chicken would be a wonderful thing. Yes, but a naked, doubleskinned, three legged, **pre-seasoned & battered** chicken would be better. \*“Hop in the fryer, Clucky!” “Buck-awk!”\* ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2002, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-breed-of-chicken/110115/11 "2002-05-21T21:45:38Z")
I seem to remember that something like this was done with turkeys a while ago (although it was a case of seizing upon a chance mutation in that case, not GM), but they kept dying of pneumonia or something. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-breed-of-chicken/110115/12 "2002-05-22T00:05:58Z")
Why is it pink? Do regular chickens have pink skin like that?? I think they should go for the conjioned, siamese chicken myself. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-breed-of-chicken/110115/13 "2002-05-22T00:07:26Z")
I meant conjoined, of course. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-breed-of-chicken/110115/14 "2002-05-22T05:27:08Z")
[ul]😃 **[sup]Should have gone with your first inclination and put this in MPSIMS![/sup]**[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-breed-of-chicken/110115/15 "2002-05-22T13:49:08Z")
First the lips, and now _this_. Oh, when will this tampering ever end? ☹