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vive even freezing weather, but naked chickens shiver if the henhouse temperature dips even slightly.
“THEY get so miserable that they stop eating and simply waste away,” reports Dr. Ralph Somes, Jr., who is studying the mutants at the University of Connecticut. Although pre-plucked broilers could save processing costs, the birds use up so much energy rushing about trying to keep warm that they eat more than other chickens their weight. Any profits to be made from featherless chickens are further reduced by the added cost of the fuel needed to keep their quarters adequately heated.
But the strange-looking birds may have a future. Scientists are experimenting with economical methods of fattening them for marketing. At the University of Maryland, Drs. Max Rubin and Daniel E. Bigbee have found that under the right temperatures feed bills for featherless chickens need not be higher than for ordinary birds.
When slaughtered, the feather
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