Aussie cat that thinks he's a chicken!

An Australian moggy that seems to think himself a chicken, took over the job of incubating eggs after they were abandoned by hens.

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Can Chickens See Better Than People

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have peered deep into the eye of the chicken and found a masterpiece of biological design.

Scientists mapped five types of light receptors in the chicken's eye. They discovered the receptors were laid out in interwoven mosaics that maximized the chicken's ability to see many colors in any given part of the retina, the light-sensing structure at the back of the eye.

"Based on this analysis, birds have clearly one-upped us in several ways in terms of color vision," says Joseph C. Corbo, M.D., Ph.D., senior author and assistant professor of pathology and immunology and of genetics. "Color receptor organization in the chicken retina greatly exceeds that seen in most other retinas and certainly that in most mammalian retinas."

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Squirrel Sets Fire To Kentucky Fried Chicken Restaurant

Fire crews think a squirrel started a fire that gutted a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in England. A family of squirrels had been living in the roof space of the building and one of the rodents may have sparked the blaze by snacking on an electric cable.

China to Tax U.S. Chicken

China is getting increasingly bold in its response to an ongoing trade dispute with the U.S., Chinese authorities Friday slapped preliminary import duties of as much as 105.4% on U.S. chicken products.

The Ministry of Commerce which announced the decision said U.S dumping is hurting China's domestic poultry industry. Once the new directive takes effect Feb. 13, U.S. exporters, including Pilgrim's Pride Corp. and Tyson Foods Inc., will be required to deposit the duty with Chinese customs, pending a final decision on the matter.

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Colourful dinosaur was like a chicken

Scientists have mapped out the full colour pattern for a feathered dinosaur for the first time. They found that the species in question looked something like a Spangled Hamburg chicken.

By analysing fossilised pigments, called melanosomes, the team were able to assign colours to individual feathers of Anchiornis huxleyi, a four-winged carnivore dinosaur that lived during the late Jurassic period in China.


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Lucky Caught At Last

Lucky the chicken has been caught at last. Lucky, a black chicken who spent two months dodging cars, coyotes and captors at a busy Glendale CA intersection is all cooped up.


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Chicken Love

A video posted online that shows a man on a New York City subway snuggling and kissing a chicken has viewers giggling and the city transit agency launching an investigation.However I dont see anything wrong with it. Chickens need love too :)

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E. coli in retail chicken eyed for link to infections

Research from McGill University suggests there may be a link between a strain of E. coli in undercooked chicken and a risk of urinary tract infections in younger women who consume it.

McGill researcher Amee Manges, studying samples taken in the Montreal area between 2005 and 2007, in collaboration with the Public Health Agency of Canada and the University of Guelph, said her results show "strong new evidence" that E. coli from chicken sold at supermarkets, restaurants and elsewhere can cause common urinary tract infections.

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Russian American Chicken Fight

Russia, which spent $800 million on U.S. poultry in 2008, has banned imports from its largest supplier on concerns related to the use of chlorine in treating the meat -- a practice routinely used in the United States to kill bacteria that can cause food poisoning.

Russia May Ban US Poultry

"If some foreign producers do not or cannot comply with our safety requests, we will work with other suppliers. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday at a meeting on poultry production and development of Russia's poultry market.

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Chicken Crash

A 45-year-old trucker from Los Angeles says he choked while eating chicken and passed out, allowing his southbound tractor-trailer rig to crash.

Chicken Crack Down

The county of Sacramento will be cracking down on urban chicken owners starting next week. The county is telling owners to eat or get rid of their chickens by Monday, Jan. 18 or county code enforcement will start investigating and fining them. Crack Down

Chicken Rage Is Becoming a Problem

I am told an Ohio woman who flew into a rage and broke a window after she was told a McDonald's was out of chicken McNuggets has been charged with felony vandalism. I can totally understand this. When you gotta have chicken. YOU GOTTA HAVE CHICKEN.

Policeman Shoots Children Over Chicken

According to a report on Radio Mozambique a policeman shot three children, including two of his own sons, because they ate a chicken he had been keeping for his dinner.

Why farmed ducks endure worse conditions than chickens

Why farmed ducks endure worse conditions than battery hens. To stay healthy, they require access to ponds and space to roam. But many thousands of birds farmed in Britain for their meat endure appalling conditions. Sanjida O'Connell investigates.

An interesting article, perhaps a little one sided but worth a read.

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Chicken From China On Your Table Soon

The U.S. Congress tore down a barrier to imports of chicken from China last week. President Obama signed an appropriations bill on Wednesday that clears the way for the imports by allowing the U.S. Department of Agriculture to conduct in China the safety inspections U.S. law requires for any country exporting food to America. The congressional move in 2007 to block funding for those regulatory steps amounted to an import ban. Now USDA will go through its normal regulatory process to open the door to Chinese imports, which could take up to 18 months.

Ten months in prison for The Chicken Killer

A man in England has been jailed for a total of 10 months after torturing and killing 24 chickens before their coop was burnt down.

Kevin Hughes, 20, was sentenced after pleading guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to an animal, and a further count of arson. A number of people were arrested after the attack, but only Hughes was charged.

China May Stomp On American Chicken Feet

China buys and eats an estimated $350 million in U.S. chicken feet each year. Now upset over new American tariffs on Chinese tire imports, Beijing has retaliated with an investigation into alleged anti-competitive practices by American chicken importers that could threaten this traffic to the China.

Be afraid of the urban chicken

I do not happen to agree with the author of this next story but thought it was worth passing on.....

Chickens are dirty, vicious and require a lot of upkeep. From time to time, they fly the coop and you have to round them up. They leave gooey little messes all over the yard. Too cold and they die; too warm and they die. And they smell. Read More

Antibiotics in poultry and eggs a bad idea?

Antibiotics injected into poultry and eggs to reduce the spread of infection may be making people less susceptible to important antibiotic treatment, says the Public Health Agency of Canada.

The agency says Health Canada should ban the use of cephalosporins in agriculture because — although the drugs are effective in reducing the spread of illness in animals — they were not intended to be used in farming, and the effects of eating animals treated with the antibiotics are unknown.



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