Dong Tao Chickens---OMG!

[NancyNurseCxMama]

Have any of you seen these chickens IRL?
Scary!!
http://www.amusingplanet.com/2015/06/the-dragon-like-legs-of-dong-tao-chicken.html

 

[Hybridchucks]

Poor things

 

[Smuvers Farm]

It is sad they are bred that way... but you know them feet make super collagen filled broth.

 

[Amer]

I have seen those before. I think it's interesting they come in a wheaten coloring many other Indonesian birds, also I have never seen white ones before, it was actually kind of pretty.

 

[Amer]

I wonder what they look like as chicks, probably normal.

 

[Trish1974]

Yuck! Never seen such a sight! Poor things look like they have a bad case of cellulitis!

 

[LilJoe]

I think they are pretty cool. But I also feel bad for them

 

[Amer]

I agree

 

[JedJackson]

That looks very painful. Is it some kind of genetic skin disorder that makes them like that?

 

[aart]

I wonder what they look like as chicks, probably normal.

Nope.
"Their unhelpfully big feet makes the hatching process even more difficult, so breeders have to assist the hens in order to produce chicks. A new born chick takes eight months to one year to become a sellable bird of three to five kilograms."

Pretty disgusting.....reminds me of what humans can do screwing around with breeding animals, like those poor smashed face, bug eyed little dogs whose tongues don't fit into their mouths.