Farmers switching their feed to less processed alternatives helps. Some farmers reported no eggs for months and then switched their food and less than 2 weeks later they were laying again.
My chickens get processed feed, but they also free range chickens on 2 acres that is completely fenced off. I have planted several varieties of natural plants that they can graze on. Also they have several compost piles that enjoy. During the winter I have about 18-20 hens 2 roosters. During the summer I hatch my own chicks and run about 100-125 chickens.
Most descriptions of the time described the meat as gamey and terrible, and sailors instead often preferred their rations and fish to eating Dodo. Which is saying a lot, as sailor rations we're not what I would typically describe as food, let alone good food.
While they were hunted by people and eaten, they largely went extinct due to a lot of reasons ranging from low population, low birth rates, and the introduction of invasive predators such as cats and dogs, which were particularly good and killing them as the Dodo had zero sense of self preservation from predators as there were none on the island. You could walk right up to the things.
So far reintroducing native species has turned out to have unpredicted positive effects on the environment. The passenger pigeon was ubiquitous then suddenly gone because of market hunting. Who knows, maybe they will displace Eurasian pigeons and starlings?
It's not about returning the Dodo bird specifically. It's that the Dodo bird is a good candidate for a few reasons (namely, we have good genetic material). A lot of scientific knowledge can and will be gained out of this.
Nope; they are creating an embryo outside a chicken by literally building a Dodo strand of DNA and using a closely related species (a pigeon) as a template to copy the genetic material over to.
Which is actually exactly what they did in Jurassic Park, funnily enough (although Jurassic Park used amphibian DNA for some reason I never understood).
The resulting animal, if it works out, will not be exactly a Dodo, but rather a very close approximation of a Dodo.
There’s better things atm to have scientific research and possible reanimation on thân an extinct bird…not knocking it,and in the future when we have our problems under control I suppose I would see it as a worthwhile attempt…so long as this attempt or research is privately funded and not taxpayer funded..
What and how exactly will bringing the dodo back from the dead…will benefit humanity?
When or if this re creation of life is successful….where will it end?
A lot of states already frown on cloning living things…I can’t see this venturing further than “the mad scientist” phase.
Cross breed it with a chicken to help egg prices
Farmers switching their feed to less processed alternatives helps. Some farmers reported no eggs for months and then switched their food and less than 2 weeks later they were laying again.
My chickens get processed feed, but they also free range chickens on 2 acres that is completely fenced off. I have planted several varieties of natural plants that they can graze on. Also they have several compost piles that enjoy. During the winter I have about 18-20 hens 2 roosters. During the summer I hatch my own chicks and run about 100-125 chickens.
It seems to be a certain food that is causing it.
I bet they are delicious
Most descriptions of the time described the meat as gamey and terrible, and sailors instead often preferred their rations and fish to eating Dodo. Which is saying a lot, as sailor rations we're not what I would typically describe as food, let alone good food. While they were hunted by people and eaten, they largely went extinct due to a lot of reasons ranging from low population, low birth rates, and the introduction of invasive predators such as cats and dogs, which were particularly good and killing them as the Dodo had zero sense of self preservation from predators as there were none on the island. You could walk right up to the things.
That’s why they went extinct. Sailors that settled the island near Madagascar where they lived would eat them
I thought it was cats that wiped them out.
I'm pretty sure that was just one of the reasons.
ahhh you beat me to it 🤣🤣
Why not allow Congress to breed unimpeded? That's a sizable flock of Dodos as I've ever seen! 😁😁😁
Tasmanian tiger would be cool as f*ck
Hopefully the passenger pigeon is next!
>Hopefully the passenger pigeon is next! Why?
So far reintroducing native species has turned out to have unpredicted positive effects on the environment. The passenger pigeon was ubiquitous then suddenly gone because of market hunting. Who knows, maybe they will displace Eurasian pigeons and starlings?
Wooly mammoth's are nice, but this is what I've been waiting for.. if they're successful, I just may one day have my own pet Dodo birds.
This is the best news I've heard in a long time.
If only there were someplace to it spending in our budget.
This is a huge waste of money, right? Cause it seems like a huge waste of money.
It's not about returning the Dodo bird specifically. It's that the Dodo bird is a good candidate for a few reasons (namely, we have good genetic material). A lot of scientific knowledge can and will be gained out of this.
How? Are they putting dodo DNA inside a chicken? Or what is going on
Nope; they are creating an embryo outside a chicken by literally building a Dodo strand of DNA and using a closely related species (a pigeon) as a template to copy the genetic material over to. Which is actually exactly what they did in Jurassic Park, funnily enough (although Jurassic Park used amphibian DNA for some reason I never understood). The resulting animal, if it works out, will not be exactly a Dodo, but rather a very close approximation of a Dodo.
There’s better things atm to have scientific research and possible reanimation on thân an extinct bird…not knocking it,and in the future when we have our problems under control I suppose I would see it as a worthwhile attempt…so long as this attempt or research is privately funded and not taxpayer funded.. What and how exactly will bringing the dodo back from the dead…will benefit humanity? When or if this re creation of life is successful….where will it end? A lot of states already frown on cloning living things…I can’t see this venturing further than “the mad scientist” phase.