[HN Gopher] Chicken Eyeglasses
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Chicken Eyeglasses
Author : thomassmith65
Score : 16 points
Date : 2025-06-11 06:13 UTC (3 days ago)
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| thomassmith65 wrote:
| I looked this up after hearing about them on ABC's _If You 're
| Listening_ podcast: https://abc.net.au/listen/programs/if-youre-
| listening/skunk-...
| MaDeuce wrote:
| And contact lenses too. A HBS case study I remember from grad
| school:
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| "Optical Distortion, Inc" A new product, contact lenses for
| chickens, is to be introduced by a small firm formed to market
| the product. An entry strategy must be planned including price,
| sales force, size, and location. Allows data for computation of
| economic benefit to farmers. Includes state-by-state chicken
| population data for planning a rollout sales program.
|
| https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=17120
| ortusdux wrote:
| A friend had a job in the 70's at a research lab, and one of
| their duties was to use a hot iron to curl the beaks of each
| incoming batch of chicks, to help prevent pecking. They called
| the tasking "giving the chickens lips". I like the glasses
| solution a bit better.
| WastedCucumber wrote:
| I don't get it though - how does this help prevent pecking? The
| only reasoning seems to be in the 1911 article, where it suggests
| they're made to protect the chickens' eyes.
| 07d5602d5e488e3 wrote:
| end of the first paragraph
|
| > the coloring was thought to prevent a chicken wearing them
| from recognizing blood on other chickens, which may increase
| the tendency for abnormal injurious behavior
| smusamashah wrote:
| I can not find pictures of chicken wearing those particular
| glasses depicted in this Wikipedia article.
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