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less birds weighed up to six percent more that conventional chickens fed the same test diet. When cooked, the mutants provided up to 16 percent more meat.

THE researchers believe that because denuded chickens are more energetic they develop less fat, which leads to less shrinkage in the oven. Added servings delivered to the dinner table might more than make up for those higher heating bills. And the featherless chickens might thrive in sunny, southern regions.

Science has drastically altered poultry raising before. As late

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