Dinochook?

[pdblake]

Canadian scientist aims to turn chickens into dinosaurs - Yahoo! News UK

I want some of these

[RichmondHens]

I don't!! You watch chickens run towards you when you head out with the treats pot of an evening - they look just like velociraptors! Or maybe that's just my birds ..............

[Bramble-Poultry]

Thats just wrong on so many levels!!

Velociraptors RH - hahahahaha - now you come to mention it !!

[pdblake]

I always think of the T-Rex from Jurassic Park when one of mine gives me the beady eye

[Suechooks]

Have you ever watched a heron flying - now that's scary!!!

[bluemoon]

All I can say is WHY??? I remember a few years ago some Japanese scientist got hold of some frozen Mammoth semen from Siberia, his plan was to inseminate an Indian elephant to give a crossbreed then over successive generations keep using the Mammoth semen until there was little elephant left and the offspring were almost 100% Mammoth. When we're doing all we can to annihilate the natural habitats of the Mammoth's 2 closest relatives I just don't understand why anyone would think it a good idea to resurrect a species which has little or no habitat left and would be condemned to spending its entire future in zoos.
Dinosaurs fall into a similar category, people are fascinated with them because they are huge and rather terrifying, but no one seems to want to resurrect any of the millions of smaller and less impressive species which have become extinct over the years. Besides I think the money would be better spent protecting the environment of those species which we already have, but might not have for much longer.
I agree there's something distinctly saurian about chickens though.
As for Herons, we have a surprising number hereabouts and they are scary in flight, have you ever seen a couple in a tree canopy having a squabble? The whole thing sways.

[Bramble-Poultry]

We have a heronery about 3 miles from here so we get loads of them - strange looking creatures.

Bluemoon - I agree with all you said except one thing kept popping to mind - how the hell do you get frozen mammoth semen???

[shirlthegirl43]

We have a heronery about 3 miles from here so we get loads of them - strange looking creatures.

Bluemoon - I agree with all you said except one thing kept popping to mind - how the hell do you get frozen mammoth semen???

I would hazard a guess that if you find a deep frozen male mammoth you might find big balls of it

[Bramble-Poultry]

hahahahahahaha - i'm a physically crying you made me laught so much - thanks shirl

[shirlthegirl43]

Glad to be of humour surprised I beat Wayne to it though

[HayleyB]

Yep I agree it's already been done our lot have always been known as "the velociraptors".........

[Flummery]

Do you remember, in Jurassic Park, the little velociraptors that found the family on the beach having a picnic? They terrorised the little girl. Give my 4 little feathered fluffy-bums a sniff of a picnic and you'd get some right veloci-terror going on!

[bluemoon]

We have a heronery about 3 miles from here so we get loads of them - strange looking creatures.

Bluemoon - how the hell do you get frozen mammoth semen???

Apparently when a Mammoth is found frozen in Siberia - which happens quite frequently, it seems - it tends to have....ummm...ALL its bits. There are whole communities who make a living from Mammoth hunting, or at least Mammoth searching because they're all under ice now, mainly because the tusks are the world's only legal form of ivory, but if they find largely intact specimen it's the Siberian equivalent of winning the lottery because scientists all over the globe will pay huge amounts for them...then use them for rather dubious experiments like the chap in Japan.

[Bramble-Poultry]

Amazing - who'd have thought that all these years after dying out they would still be hunted!!

[bluemoon]

We just can't leave the poor old things alone.