Contact Lenses For Chickens Why chickens are seeing RED' By: Kristen Marlatt

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Contact Lenses For ChickensWhy chickens are
seeing RED.By Kristen Marlatt
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Did you know????

• At the turn of the century, chicken was
  considered a delicacy. It was one of the most
  expensive items on a restaurants menu. Both
  steak and lobster were cheaper!

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Today, chicken is the food of the common man.

• Science has managed to created the SUPERCHICKEN
• Chickens that grow extremely quickly to a much
  larger size and produce a greater number of eggs.
• This came at a cost
• Chickens became more aggressive.
• An aggressive chicken turns around and kills
  other chickens which in turn lowers farmers
  profits.

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During the 1950s

• Farmers realized that chickens raised under red
  lights tended to be less aggressive, and as a
  result, consumed less food.
• AND, they produced more eggs.

• Unfortunately, workers could not see what they
  were doing under the red lights, so an
  alternative approach was needed.
• Someone came up with the bright idea of putting
  glasses on the chickens, but the glasses didnt
  stay on the chickens.
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The last approachred contact lenses for chickens

• In the 1960s, Irvin Wise decided to design
  contact lenses for the birds.
• Unfortunately, his lenses blinded the chickens.

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Randall E. Wise

• Randall went off to college and founded a very
  successful computer software company in Boston.
• After 8 years in the business he sold his company
  for millions to pursue his childhood dream
  designing contact lenses for chickens.
• It took hundreds of pairs of failed lenses until
  he hit on a useable design.

• When they hit the market in 1989, the lenses sold
  for 20 cents per pair, or 15 cents if bought in
  bulk. 
• Fitting a bird with these lenses is quite simple
  - you hold the bird's head steady for a few
  seconds and insert the lenses. 
• They are supposed to stay in for life, but no one
  told the chickens that!

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Many of the lenses fell out and continues to
undergo modification..

• The flocks have successfully used the lenses.
• the costs of producing a single egg has been
  reducing by a whopping 1/3 of one penny.
• If you consider that the larger egg farms produce
  one-half million eggs per day, those red contact
  lenses have the potential of saving millions of
  dollars per year.

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USELESS OR USEFUL?....YOU DECIDE

• Works Cited
• http//home.nycap.rr.com/useless/chickens/index.ht
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• http//www.upc-online.org/RedLens.html