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Chickens in the News

Haven't done one of these in a while, but there's been a fair amount of interesting chicken stories on the web lately...

• Hen's teeth are not as rare as you thought. At least in nonviable chicken embryos, thanks to a gene called talpid2:
  Mutant Chicken Grows Alligatorlike Teeth
  


• Life as a chicken culler in Bermuda:
  ‘I don’t hate chickens — I’m doing this for a job’
  


• Avian flu is not the only thing about which Indian chickens need to worry:
  15,000 chickens die of Infectious Bursal Disease