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Can chickens REALLY be cleverer than a toddler? Studies suggest animals can master numeracy and basic engineering
London :: United Kingdom | 9 hours ago
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Chicken's exhibit intelligent behaviour within just a few hours of hatching. Newly born chicks are able to keep track of numbers up to five. When given a choice between two groups of plastic eggs would almost invariable choose the bigger one, even
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Chicken prices go through the roof
Mumbai :: India | 1 day ago
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With a number of weddings lined up this month and the first week of July, the zooming prices of chicken have dealt a body blow to people, forcing them to cut down the menu. Hotel owners are the worst hit due to price rise. "Leave alone profits, we
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Orange County may allow backyard chickens, following Orlando's lead
Orlando :: FL :: USA | 1 day ago
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People like it," said Jason Burton, chief planner for Orlando. "A lot of times when people have hens in their back yard, people don't even know, because they only 'bok' when they lay an egg." Orange's ordinance would allow up to three cooped hens on
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La Grange man wants chicken ban overturned
Naperville :: IL :: USA | 2 days ago
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Chickens are among the animals the village code prohibits residents from keeping (in addition to cattle, goats, sheep, swine, ducks, geese and pigeons.) But Jeff Cogelja, who kept them in his backyard on South Ashland Avenue for about seven months
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AUDIO: Office workers 'human battery hens'
London :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago
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Office workers treated as 'human battery hens' 17 June 2013 Last updated at 08:51 ET Unison has said that workers in crowded offices are being treated like "human battery hens."...Karen Jennings is the Assistant General Secretary for Unison.
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Update on a Large Salmonella Outbreak
New York City :: NY :: USA | 7 days ago
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The CDC recently reported that a large multistate outbreak of Salmonella is continuing, now affecting children and adults in 34 states. So far, at least 224 people have gotten sick with Salmonella symptoms, including 37 who required hospitalization,
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Which comes first: California's egg rule, or everyone else's?
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 10 days ago
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Congress this year will deal with a host of profound issues: A confrontation over raising the nation's debt limit. Budget battles that will determine whether more cuts are made in government services. And the most ambitious attempt to overhaul the
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20 000 jobs at risk in poultry sector
Johannesburg :: South Africa | 12 days ago
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About 20 000 jobs could be lost if the government does not clamp down on the import of low-quality chicken, the SA Poultry Association said on Friday. "As many as 20 000 people in the poultry industry are threatened with imminent retrenchment as the
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MPs oppose glow in the dark eggs
Amsterdam :: Netherlands | 13 days ago
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It says the minister backs trials involving modifying chickens with a jellyfish gene which would make the eggs glow under certain types of light. Edinburgh This, nu.nl says, would make it easier to pick out eggs containing male chicks. It would also
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Chicken, quail catch and shed high volumes of new H7N9 flu, study shows
Athens :: Greece | 13 days ago
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Chickens and quail are highly susceptible to the new H7N9 bird flu, and shed high volumes of virus when they are infected, new research reveals. The work, which hasn't yet been published, suggests these two types of birds may be key to the explosive
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