Some say chicken chicken chicken, others say subway, subways, subways. Chicken Chicken Chicken Chicken (the academic study) by Doug Zongker, published in the Annals of Improbable Research, vol. 12, no. 5, September-October 2006, led to Chicken Chicken Chicken, the lecture by Zongker (the lecture was part of the Annals of Improbable Research session at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the […]
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Diapers for modern domestic chickens (part 2)
Tobi Kosanke, Ph.D., inventor of a diaper for domestic chickens (profiled here yesterday), has filed a patent application for that device: “Poultry Harness Diaper,” US patent application 20120037094 A1, by Tobi Kosanke, filed August 11, 2011. “A diaper assembly for use on a bird includes an upper-body portion that has at least one first part […]
Diapers for modern domestic chickens (part 1)
This video shows Tobi Kosanke, Ph.D., showing how to use diapers for domestic chickens. These are diapers Dr. Kasanke specially designed, so she says, for chickens that or who live inside modern houses or apartments. The diapers are sold under the brand name Hen Holster. The manufacturer’s web site explains more about them. The site […]
American chicken-sexing update
Brendan Koerner looks at the past and present of one nation’s chicken-sexing industry: … This tale of economic triumph has a single hero: S. John Nitta, who founded the American Chick Sexing Association in 1938. During the war, when over 100,000 of his fellow Japanese-Americans were interned, Nitta continued to train and certify sexors; once […]