Why did you have to genetically modify a chicken?

Question: Why did you have to genetically modify a chicken?
- Keywords:
  chicken,
  genetic modification
Asked by XtechGD to Sharon on 8 Mar 2017.
- Xueyuan Jiang answered on 8 Mar 2017:
  
  Hi Ola,
  
  I was studying what are the genes necessary for chicken to grow feather. So I got rid of the genes that I think are necessary, and checked what changes may occur. In the end, the modified chicken has much less feather than normal ones : )
  
  Sharon