Thread:Urkelbot666/@comment-26268104-20150826235822/@comment-25021327-20150914221933

Okay, I'll tell you my issues with the Lung-Cancer-Chickens-Next-Door scenario, these are just my personal thoughts.

First off, I'm not sure how common avian cancer is, I know that it exists, but one doesn't usually hear about it, even in farms. In that respect, the fact that more than one chicken would have cancer seems like a stretch.

Second, I'm not sure how it could be feasibly explained that the owners even know that the chickens have Lung cancer. They could take them to a vet, who might be able to make such a diagnosis after moderate to extensive testing, at which point, euthinising the birds would likely be a heavily discussed option.

Third, though chickens could get cancer, I'm not sure that they would ever get lung cancer. This leads me to another issue. In thinking about this, the only causes I can think of would be if the chickens were in some sort of area where they would be constantly exposed to cigarette smoke, or soe other carcinogen, and the other would be if the chickens themselves were chain smoking cigarettes. Honestly, if I hear about a chicken with lung cancer, the first thing my mind goes to is the image of a chicken smoking, which is hilarious. It's not really the type of thing that fits in with the tone of a scary story.

Another, less important point for me is the fact that treatment of birds isn't guaranteed to be the same as treatment for mammals. I'm sure it's similar, but I would think that experimenting on a mammal, maybe even another of the farm animals (Cow, hog, goat, or even a dog or cat) would be a more efficient way for the protagonist to conduct his experiments.

So, yeah, I don't intend to sound like a dick, or that I'm tearing down your idea, these are just the points that went through my head, and why I think that the idea might be a stretch of the suspension of disbelief.