Wingless Chickens

[Mojo Chick'n]

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Is a Schmoo some kind of wingless/flightless bird I've never heard of?

Lisa

, I'm guessing you're one of them young folks.

A shmoo was a cartoon type character from, what, the 70's? I think.

Cannot recall which cartoon he ended up on.

Of course, this was before the cartoons were all made in Japan

here's a link that explains the shmoo - I was wrong -- but I am sure that some cartoon had a shmoo on it, too - maybe scoobydoo or something.

eta - wrong again - it was The Flintstones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmoo

Meri

 

[Birch Run Farm]

Sacrilage!

The wings are the BEST PART to eat! A pox upon this person to return chickens to wing beating beauties!

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Oh, Hubby said a Schmoo was a cartoon character. I must have missed that one.
Here it is.
No Schmoo pics, tho.

Lisa

 

[Guitartists]

I can see the resemblance

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Phooey, that doesn't even remotely resemble a chicken (even a wingless chicken) --- looks more like a seal or ???
I don't get the reference at all now.

Lisa

 

[mikarod]

When you think about it, it'd be of some use to the production leghorn chains. Less room needed because the birds wouldn't have wings that needed to be stretched.

 

[Black Feather]

Actually, I was thinking of these guys from a showroom perspective as well. Can your imagine? Maybe there could be frizzle, naked neck, wingless show chickens!

Urban Coyote

 

[tadkerson]

A number of studies have been carried out on the wingless chicken. There are two forms of this gene- one is sex linked recessive and the other is autosomal (not found on a sex chromosome) recessive.

For some reason, during embyonic development, the cells at the end of the wing bud die. The cell death then spreads to the rest of the wing bud which causes the wing not to form.

Tim

 

[Guitartists]

This is the pic that gets me....... can you imagine what that poor wingless chicken must be thinking as it's free-falling

 

[lovemychix]

Not right.

I like my chickens with wings.