By Moe
Chapter 3 – Chicklings
Day 1
After lunch, the girls returned to their dorm rooms anxious to look at their bodies to see if there were any noticeable changes that had taken place. Although they couldn’t see anything, little did they know that a lot was happening inside. Their hip bones, spines and shoulders were already preparing to align themselves for their new body configuration. The muscles on the lower legs were getting ready to be dissolved for use as tissue elsewhere while fat tissue started to accumulate on the thighs. The internal organs were also changing to conform to a new life as a chicken.
As warned in the morning, the girls were all very fatigued due to all the activity and changes in their bodies and so slept the afternoon away. At dinner time, they received their fist special meal consisting of a bowl of grain paste like substance and water. Even though the paste did not look very appetizing, the girls agreed that it didn’t taste all that bad.
Day 2
After breakfast, each girl was taken to the Health office for the daily exam. After two more shots were administered and a couple of more pills were swallowed, each girl was told to disrobe and prepare for photos and measurements. Obviously they were initially embarrassed but told that this would soon become a natural part of the day. The exams were then followed by the daily briefing given by Dr. Taylor.
“I am glad to see everyone made through the night OK and is here. As I told you yesterday, each day I or one of the staff will give you a briefing to explain what has happened and what will happen to you during the transformation. I suspect most of you went back to your rooms yesterday and looked for an outgrowth of feathers.” There was some light laughter in the room. “The truth is you will grow feathers but not until the third week. Over the next day or two, you will notice rapid growth in your chest area and buttocks as tissue mass shifts in your body from your lower legs and shoulders. Your thighs will shift their position where they join your abdomen and the space between your thighs will increase as your pelvis widens to adapt to a more round body.”
“The reason for these changes is simple. When a person stands they more or less form the letter “I” but when a chicken stands, they form a “T” shape. What this means is the head and chest has to more or less balance with your behind to make to make standing for long periods easy and comfortable while eating for example. By this time tomorrow, you will easily notice the changes in your posture and weight distribution. You should notice that your lower legs are starting to become smaller as well.”
“In addition to the changes you can see, there is a lot going on inside you. Your digestive system is developing a crop at the base of your neck where you will be able to store fairly large amounts of food until you are ready to digest it. You will soon have a gizzard where much of the food digestion takes place. The main reason you are here is to lay eggs and therefore your reproductive system is also undergoing major changes but we will talk about that another day. Does anyone have a question?”
Everyone had questions. “Will I shrink to the size of a regular chicken or how big will I be?
“The reason that you will be so productive is because you will be roughly a human size chicken. This means you most likely will gain or lose only a few pounds from where you are now. With your new body configuration that we just discussed, you will only stand about three and a half feet tall or so when done.”
“What will happen to my boobs?”
“Chickens do not have mammary glands and so they will be absorbed into your chest area quite soon.” After the question period ended, the girls were dismissed to go back to their rooms and watch television, take a nap or whatever they cared to do. The meals that day consisted of more bowls of grain paste which they were told was easy to digest for their developing digestive systems.
Day 3
The transformations were more observable now as they each examined themselves in the mirror before getting dressed and starting the day. It was clear the uniforms did not quite fit right and that when they walked their gait was not quite normal. When they sat down at breakfast, they could feel that their posteriors were quite a bit bigger than they were the day before.
After the usual health exam and shots, they met in the conference room for the daily briefing. Dr. Jennifer Goodson told the group that Dr. Taylor was not available and so she would fill in. “If it wasn’t clear to you yesterday, I am sure you can all see that changes are taking place in your bodies. I’ve reviewed the preliminary results of your exams this morning and you are all developing normally which is great. I have put on the wall the anatomy chart of a chicken. I will explain to you some of what is going to happen to you as you change.” She went on for close to an hour discussing chicken anatomy. In a normal biology class, the students would have zoned out long ago but in this case, Dr. Goodson had the full attention of everyone for the whole time.
“What’s going to happen next you may ask? Your boobs should be completely gone by this time tomorrow. Just think, you will never need to put on a bra again. The other major change you will see is that as your buttocks become your growing tail structure, your anus and your vagina will appear to merge. Your vagina will now be located well behind your thighs rather than between them. Finally, the space between your thighs should reach 10 or 12 inches. In addition to these observable changes, your inside viscera are quickly becoming that of a chicken.”
“That’s all for today. Enjoy the rest of the day and we will see tomorrow as usual.” Dr. Goodson and the other administrators left the conference room followed by the chicken recruits. In between meals, nap times and TV watching, the girls found themselves examining their bodies and each other for changes. It was both exciting and terrifying at the same time to think what was happening to them.
Day 4
When the girls were sleeping is when the greatest changes took place since the body was at rest and so the body energy could be used for reconstruction. Each girl was amazed at the changes that had occurred while sleeping. The most obvious was the huge tail structure they each sported now. Instead of two butt cheeks, there was now a large mound of pointy flesh in their behind. The pointy part ended about two feet behind where the thighs were attached. If the girls thought things were different yesterday, these changes brought on a whole new level of challenges. Just getting out of bed was weird with the new body. Walking was completely strange not to mention going to the toilet on a conventional toilet when you had two feet of tail sticking out. As they were told the day before, they could see that their vagina and anal opening had also shifted towards the rear. At least with that change they could manage to still use the toilet. What came out was a surprise too. They now defecated a white, almost solid urine or chicken shit.
With their new body shapes, regular pant/shirt uniforms were no longer practical or possible. Instead, each girl was given a gown to wear for the day. The group of girls waddled to the breakfast area and they quickly noticed that their usual table now had soft padded benches around the table instead of regular chairs. Jane told them that the best thing to do is sit down with their legs straddling the bench which they found to be reasonably comfortable.
After breakfast and the daily health exam with more shots and pills, the chicken recruits convened again in the conference room for their daily briefing. The chairs were also replaced with padded benches. Today the briefing was given by Dr. Alex Smith. He told them that now that their body cores were transforming nicely, more changes would take place in the extremities. The arms and legs would transform into chicken wings and chicken legs over the next two days. Their feet would become claws with spurs which would serve them well in their new life they would find.
Dr. Smith also told them that since they now had most of the digestive system of a chicken, they also would have the bowel control of a chicken which means none. For this reason and because of the body changes, it was time for the chicklings to move out of the dorm rooms and into new quarters more suitable for them.
Because the girls had some difficulty walking and the long distance, they were transported by small utility vehicles to their new temporary housing about a mile away from the administration building. They did not know that they would never see the dorms or admin building ever again. The new quarters were in a medium sized steel clad building that had a fenced in yard next to the building. They were led through the office area in the building and then through a door to the shop area and finally to a fenced in area with a gate. The air temperature was very warm at over 90o F. The gate was unlocked and the group entered where the floor was covered with a thick layer of pine shavings that contained about a dozen stalls about five feet wide each.
Dr. Smith informed the chicklings “This will be your new temporary quarters for the remainder of your transformation period. Please pick out a stall that you would like to call home for the next few weeks.” Each stall had a 4” diameter horizontal wood pole across the front of the stall about a foot off the ground. In the back of the stall was an elevated platform covered with straw. “Although it may not seem like it now, you will see that this will be ideal for your needs.”
“Finally, there is one last thing we must do today before you settle into your new housing,” Dr. Smith added. “Over the next day you will start growing your chick down feathers which all baby chicks have. By the end of the day tomorrow you will all be covered in yellow down feathers and frankly look very much like baby chicks. Very cute! So as not to impede this development, it is now necessary to shave off all the hair on your head.” Despite all the changes that had taken place in the last few days with the girls, this was the event that probably caused the most distress. Each girl was told to sit on the padded bench and then have her head shaved clean with an electric shaver. They were told that their hair would be donated to a charity to make human hair wigs for children with cancer so that they would feel a little bit better.
Dinner was served in the chickling coop common area and then the girls retreated to their own stalls to try and sleep. With their strange new bodies, it was a challenge to find a comfortable sleeping position on the straw covered ledge.
Day 5
The chicklings woke up in their coop stalls to more strange new changes in their bodies. Their lower legs were now becoming smaller in diameter and covered with a yellow-orange scaly skin. The feet were clearly transforming into claws. The most obvious thing was the light covering of yellow down feathers all over their bodies including their heads. The girls were informed that they would no longer wear any clothes since they were already covered from head to toe in down feathers.
Breakfast was served to the girls in their stalls and then the daily health exams were conducted in an isolated section of the coop. For the morning briefing the girls were told to squat down on the ground as best they could since chickens don’t use chairs and benches and they should get used to doing this. Dr. Taylor was back and told the chicklings that their progress was remarkable and right on schedule. He also said that their down would continue to thicken all during the day and so that by night time they would have a nice coat of down feathers to keep them warm. Although they may not have been aware of it, their body temperatures have been increasing to about 105o instead of the normal human temperature of 98.6o.
Other changes they could expect over the next day are the lengthening of their necks, the initial beginning of forming a beak to replace their nose and mouth and their arms becoming smaller and changing into vestigial wings.
“At the start of beak formation, one of the first things that will happen is that your teeth will fall out and the lower part of your face will start to harden. Inside your mouth you will notice your tongue changing shape from flat to round. By this time tomorrow you should all have small beaks. During these changes over the next 24 hours you will not want to eat because it will be uncomfortable for you.”
“Therefore, this is an ideal time to try out some of your new internal chicken equipment.” Two assistants left the area and soon returned with six quart size pails filled to the top with chicken feed. A pail was placed in front of each chickling. “You all should start eating the chicken feed that was placed in front of you but do not chew it! Instead just put it into your mouth, taste it with your tongues if you like and then just swallow it whole. The feed will then end up in your newly developed crop which is like a pre-digestion storage organ. This makes it possible for you to eat now and digest later when you need nourishment or are hungry.” The girls were naturally somewhat repulsed at eating chicken feed but did as they were told. When most of the girls were finished, Dr. Taylor told them “I want you to take your hand and place it at the base of your neck and upper chest. You will now feel a bulge which is the chicken feed being stored in your crops. While your beaks are forming, your body will use the food stored in your crop to easily sustain you for the next day.” The girls were amazed that they could feel the bulge at the base of their neck.
“You are free for the rest of the day to do as you want. You can go out to the chicken yard outside this building if you want at any time. As always, I suggest you get plenty of rest in your stalls. I look forward to seeing you tomorrow. Good day.” As the chicklings explored their new coop area, they were occasionally embarrassed to find themselves defecating chicken shit without any control. They now understood why the floor was covered in pine shavings.
The changes that were predicted at the meeting did not take long in occurring in each of the girls during the rest of the morning and in the afternoon. By dinnertime, each chickling was covered in yellow down feathers and beak development was well along the way.
Day 6
After the overnight changes, all the girls truly looked like very large chicks. They were completely covered in a heavy coat of down feathers, they had chicken feet with fully developed claws, their bodies were now more chicken shaped and they had small beaks instead of a mouth and nose. “You all look wonderful,” exclaimed Dr. Goodson who was leading the day’s briefing. “I am very pleased with your progress. I am sure you have noticed that with the arrival of your beak and neck development, you no longer have the ability to speak any more. If you really need to communicate with us, you can use your new beaks to peck on a computer keyboard to communicate with the staff. The computer is located near the entry gate to your coop area.”
“Since your legs are now transformed to chicken legs, we will put a band around one of your legs with your new identity number. You have all been registered with the state as livestock owned by HumaFoods. Normally, this is not required but optional for chickens but since you are special we wanted to make sure you are registered. Perhaps congratulations are in order since in the eyes of state of Montana you are all now officially chickens. Biologically, you are about 60 to 65% chickens at this stage.”
“I have one more main topic to discuss. I am looking for two volunteers to participate in an experimental accelerated transformation program. Basically this program is designed to reduce the next chick phase of the program from 7 days to 2 days. This program has been completed successfully a couple of times before and we are looking to do further tests. If you are willing to participate, raise your right wing. Otherwise, I will select two chicklings.”
With some hesitation, Alice and Heather volunteered for the accelerated program.