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A discovery of a duckling with four legs, in the United Kingdom, hit the news this week and not in a small way. The item got, not only a mentioned in the newspaper, but also on the UK’s national radio. It also hit the news in other parts of Europe. Is this really that big of a story? |
- Author: Wiebe van der Sluis
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Nature will get its revenge on you evil plunderers of Gods beautiful creatures.It is already starting with the bird flu menace which you have brought on yourselves with your cruelty and greed. I hope you remember this every time you eat the remains of a tortured and murdered bird or any other animal.
Wiebe, I agree with you that it is amazing to see how the views of different people can be so vast... Some people think of money and profits. In countries where consumers like the legs, profits are doubled (1 chicken, twice as many legs) - a new breeding business venture perhaps. Other views include ethical or religious concerns, or perhaps a mere genetic mishap, either to be worshiped or treated as a 'monster'. But, what is the outcome of this? Will something happen or is it merely something to talk about and then forget?? Reading the featherless article in World Poultry certainly makes makes me wonder...???
Dear Friend's This I would say is a creation of nature it has nothing to do with the genetic engineering or any kind of breeding,it even accours in humans at birth time.I would say that such kind of birds and animals should be marked as priorirt and a great encouragement should be given to the owner or the keeper in handeling such an animal it is a nature from God Almighty. Regards. Leonard J.J.Barroba Zonal Territory Manager of Venture Poultry Pakistan
It is nothing short of another genetic misharp as had been observed in humans where cases of monsters been reported. The local african people may believe that external demonic influence can interfare in the ebryological formation in the mother's womb, may be this duck is not an exception of such faboos .the answer lies with the genetist,embyolosist and the spiritualist ,to defend their views
Suppose to transplant the genes of aforementioned duckling into new breederlines. So we will have a whole new generation of fourlegged ducks.Must be commercially interesting, Four legged family ducks, with major legs for the parents and small legs for the children in a four person family.
We do regular emriodiagnosis on thousands of unhatched fertile eggs and pips. The genetic deformitities including 2 headed chicks, 3 legged or 4 legged chicks and some other 15 deformities can happen in the large population that we work. Most recently we grow out a 4 legged broiler all the way to processing plant. In our data 0.10 of hactch loss is due to these different deformities. But for the general population raises much interst and possibe fear.
This condition is simply a "posterior duplication" similar to conjoined twins in mammals. This morphology is more common that most may think. The condition is increased by rough handling of eggs prior to setting. When breaking out late term unhatched eggs you will find a low but consistant percentage of embryos with this condition, some will hatch. The other side of the story is the "anterior duplication" (two heads) which also occurs with low but consistant regularity, but these chicks virtually never hatch.
