A company called Kera Protein Ltd is transforming discarded chicken feathers into gourmet-style dishes with a London-based Thai supper club, showcased in a six-course tasting menu.

Meet the Bla Hona — sort of. The hen Nelson recently showed off at his Delta farm has a black beak, black wattle and black feathers with blue undertones, but it doesn’t quite have all the ...

Chicken feather meal--a mix of processed chicken feathers, blood and innards--is one of the nastiest byproducts of the poultry processing industry. The 11 billion pounds of feather meal that pile ...

Chicken feathers are a major pollution byproduct in the poultry industry. Chicken feathers, much like human hair and fingernails, are composed mostly of a tough protein called keratin.

(The chicken sweater is a topic of hot debate, with some members saying they’re useless or dangerous, and others saying they keep birds warm when they lose their feathers during moulting.) ...