Have you ever seen a naked chicken?  I haven’t, but I read about one recently.  Two poultry researchers, Ralph Somes, Jr. in Connecticut and Max Rubin in Maryland, have produced a new breed of naked chicken.  Actually this strange breed was first discovered in 1953 by Ursula Abbott, a researcher at the University of California.  Since then, according to the Wall Street Journal, naked chickens have been bred and studied on a wide scale.  The advantage of having a naked chicken is this: none of the food intake of the chicken is processed into feathers.  It all goes into meat.  The naked birds actually weigh five or six percent more than their feathered friends.  Moreover, because there is no fatty cushion needed to support feather follicles, there is less shrinkage during cooking.  As a resu…