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Ecology and Chicken Feathers
By Cynthia Kirkeby
Sep 11, 2006, 19:00 PST



Have you ever stopped to think about how many chicken feathers are generated by all the chickens that we eat in the United States? This site gave us a different look at that issue:

Going Coo Coo For Chicken Feathers
Read about what Walter Schmidt, an environmental chemist, is doing for our ecology with fiberglass and chicken feathers. Yes, that’s right...chicken feathers!
Source: Agricultural Research Service
Level: 5th Grade & up






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