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by DC-3 2203 days ago
It's not a dino-faced chicken. It's a deformed-chicken-face chicken. You're not going to get something cohesive by flipping a couple genes, you're going to get something malformed.

Edit: a bit of googling suggests that, at least according to the scientist leading the project, I am wrong here:

For now Bhullar has no plans, or ethical approval, to hatch the snouted chickens. But he believes they would have been able to survive "just fine".

"These weren't drastic modifications," says Bhullar. "They are far less weird than many breeds of chicken developed by chicken hobbyists and breeders."

"The rest of the animal looked OK, but one needs to think about this carefully from an ethical point of view."