Re: Poopless chickens

"Ann" <annbal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@xxxxxxxxxxxx> expounded:


"Jill" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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well less poopy chickens !!!!

http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1108632007

SCIENTISTS at the Roslin Institute are to breed chickens that produce
less
excrement, it was reported today.

That would be a shame.

Yes, it would. I want that particular byproduct to put in my own
garden!

i do too - what i want is a bird that poops even more, while still eating
the same amount (actually, less ;-)
<g>

(snip)

An important source of pollution when you cram as many birds as
possible together, but if they were raised via other methods....oh,
that's right, we're talking money here..

i don't really know if that is their motivation, but their claim that
nitrogen and phosphorus are pollutants, and it's that which makes this sort
of "research" a good thing, has got to be the most disingenuous thing i've
read all week!!!

soluble artifical n p k fertilisers sprayed around pollute because they run
off into water courses. solid, organic fertilisers constituted of old poo on
or in soil are simply quite another thing. so that statement is entirely
outrageous of them to make. grr!
kylie


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