Don't mean to hijack your thread, but this didn't deserve its own thread, and since we're talking about chickens...
I came across this rather, um, odd paper in searching a completely unrelated topic:
Recycling Dead Hens by Enzyme or Sodium Hydroxide Pretreatment and Fermentation
by WH Kim, PH Patterson
Department of Poultry Science, Penn State University
http://www.poultryscience.org/psa/toc/papers/00/ps00879.pdfRecycling HENS? Wow. What will they think of next?
For ultrabizzaro reading, check out the Materials and Methods section. Here's a sample, emphasis added:
WARNING: NOT INTENDED FOR QUEASY AUDIENCES.
"The hens were euthanatized by cervical dislocation, and after 5 h, replicates of 10 birds were placed in a MODIFIED CEMENT MIXER (99.1 L) with rubber picking fingers mounted in the lower one-third of the
mixer."
"Fifteen kilograms of GROUND BIRDS were placed in 19-L plastic buckets with lids."
It's amazing what you can have published in a peer-reviewed journal nowadays. :wow: