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If you ever look at the bottom of a normal hens feather, they have a sort of down at the base of the feather. Silkies have a genetic fault that means that the whole feather is like that down

Most geography thought today, in my country anyway, is physical and social geography. Things like how a waterfall or a volcano is formed, weather and climate and migration/settlement patterns. To be honest there is very little need to know where everything is anymore, with google and such. But I...

I just has someone tell me, really tell me like they knew what they were talking about, that rabbits are poultry

In all fairness though there are only two species of snake that are actually poisonous, garter snakes and rhabdophis snakes. In most cases venomous is the correct word.

Yes caponizing is banned in the EU

Most oranges imported from tropical countries will be exposed to ethelyne gas, which will remove the chlorophyll that make the oranges green so that they turn orange.

Was it QI by any chance?

yes, corrected now

A when you say pair when you are talking about poultry it means a cockerel and a hen! A a trio is a cockerel and two hens and a quad is a cockerel and three hens

Shouldn't you be able to tell by the sex?

I know that restricting access to everything is impossible, but unless your chickens feed is organic (no gmos etc) then the eggs aren't organic. In Ireland to be free range certified, you can have a maximum of 1000 birds per hectare (200 per acre or 217 square feet per bird) which must be...

Organic doesn't necessarily mean that the hens were kept in the best conditions, it just means the feed they were fed was organic. They could still be kept in battery cages and be fed organic feed, then their eggs are classed as organic. On the rare occasion that we do buy eggs, we make sure to...

that reminds me of a something that happened to me. In November 2012 I wrote a book about keeping chickens and sold it and as a result b had lots of people calling asking for advice on hens? one woman had intended to get broilers for meatand rang me to ask how to fatten them up. I explained the...

I am the same, I find things like QI brilliant while friends and family don't see the point of it. I also like scishow and mentalfloss (youtube channels that are very good). a books are good too.

I see this one has finally traveled across the pond :) :P

Your neighbour is right, selective breeding of animals is genetic modification. Evolution by natural selection is modifying plants and animals genetically to give them particular features. Just because it isn't done in a lab doesn't mean it isn't gmo!

Ask most Irish people I would say and you would get the same answer :)

Yes I realise that, and I don't like there to be so many thongs added to food either but it is just a little pet hate of mine, the whole chemicals are bad thing Just another word on "natural" substances, they are not all good either like they are made out to be in ads. If you think about it...

a This is going a bit from the point but I hate when people use chemicals as a negative word. The fact is is that everything is chemicals, your own body is chemicals the air you breath in is chemicals and the eggs and meat from home raised chickens are full of chemicals as well. Some might...

To be honest the naming thing is only true for certain people. I have eaten chickens that have had names and. I inow other people that have. I also know people name chickens nugget or deep fried and things like that.