Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul.

And sings the tune

Without the words,

and never stops at all.

                      Emily Dickinson

...birds are dinosaurs, and most of the genetic program for the dinosaur characteristics we want to bring back should still be available in the chicken. Chickensauros is a rough sketch of the creature I am certain we can grow in the near future from a chicken egg. By biochemically manipulating a chicken embryo in the egg to “awaken the dinosaur within.                                                  

a chicken

who crossed the road. Following me home to make his in my backyard

(above) Padovana  (aka Padua’s aka Poland’s) Galileo, Nico, Robart, Lonan Feb 19, 2010 The Sky is Falling     Galileo, son of Shinnecock, mounting Nico (cloacal kiss) and his sons with assembled wooden Dinosaur model kit in background. Padovana are listed on the Heritage Breed Watch List as “fewer than 5,000 breeding birds in the US, with estimated global population less than 10,000. The global population is threatened and the United States population is making a contribution to conservation of the breed.”              

(above) Observational Findings March 29 2010 The Sky is Falling  Nine Eggs created by Shinnecock Family Hens and Pullets, glass square, open air studio Shinnecock Hills 2010  The variety of egg shapes relate to that of the Hen’s “cloaca”, in contact with the Rooster’s titled a cloacal kiss (above).

The journal Science published a watercolor of a 150-million-year-old feathered dinosaur called Anchiornis (left) an ancient relative of living birds... Along with the dinosaur’s bones, the fossil also preserved feathers across its whole body. And in those feathers are microscopic structures called melanosomes. The size, shape and arrangement of the melanosomes help give color to the feathers of living birds.                                                                      Carl Zimmer, New York Times  2/04/10

a dinosaur

“a chicken-sized dinosaur theropod was festooned with long feathers on its arms and legs.”

NYTimes Scientists Offer More Evidence on What Dinosaurs Looked Like  

Jack Horner, Paleontologist, How to Build a Dinosaur 2009                                                                                                                      

an egg

(above) "Anchiornis huxleyi’s red feathered crest and black and white winged patterns resemble Padua (aka Polish) Shinnecock and his Family Flock. (44 Roosters and 37 Hens) 81chicks born here from eggs set on and raised by their Mother Hens:   “The breed as a whole IS non-setter. Some hens never read the right books”. Barry Koffler, Breeder, Book Editor, 2007