How to raise Backyard Chickens: [CHICKENS-101] Treat time in the baby barn [1 Attachment]

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

[CHICKENS-101] Treat time in the baby barn [1 Attachment]

[Attachment(s) from Cathryn Walden included below]

Pete, Now tell me that these fluffy, precious birds weren’t descended from their own dinosaur. There is no way they are descended from the red jungle fowl. Scientists have found fossil remains of a small flying dinosaur that had hair like down on it like silkies. Silkies have to be descended from these. Ancient writers in way back ancient times wrote about fowl with hair instead of feathers. Seriously the silkie came before the red jungle fowl. The entire article is at the end of the below quote. Silkie dinos did crouch down in plants hiding their offspring and themselves from predators! J Cathryn

“They looked at an ancient Chinese breed of chicken called a Silkie. It has primitive plumage similar to that believed to grow on some dinosaurs. By activating a dormant gene, Harris and Fallon attempted to ‘trick’ the chicken’s leg into growing feathers instead of scales. It worked — they had uncovered the genetic changes that had taken place as the dinosaur evolved into a bird. Meanwhile, in Canada, Larsson had found that the three-fingered dinosaur claw structure remains hidden within a bird’s wing to this day. ‘The dinosaur fingers are adapted for grasping and snatching prey,’ he explains. ‘If we compare this to modern birds, we see the same structures in their wings but adapted for flight.’ With further research, he believes scientists should be able to transform a bird’s wing back into a dinosaur arm.”

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1026340/Jurassic-Park-comes-true-How-scientists-bringing-dinosaurs-life-help-humble-chicken.html#ixzz16tbaKnTo

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These birds have been mentioned in writings for several hundred years. The explorer Marco Polo described discovering chickens with 'fur'. They make good pets and are excellent broodies, although many people tend to think of them as bantams, in the UK silkies are classed as large fowl. However, in the last few years a proper bantam strain has been developed. Silkies are one of the oddities of the poultry world with their nearly black skin, face, comb, wattles and bones, and their hair-like plumage in which there is no web. Ancient writers referred to fowl with hair instead of feathers and they are believed to have originated in Japan although information of them also comes from India, China and the Malay states. They are further distinguished by a crest, also bearded and non-bearded varieties, and five toes.

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