Okay, this is one of these really strange stories. According to EHP, an environmental publication, chicken features could now be used to make circuit boards.

"Feathers are made of the protein keratin, which in fiber form is both light and tough enough to withstand mechanical and thermal stresses. The hollow fiber is of very low density, providing strength without sacrificing weight.  The dielectric constant of air is 1.0 and that of silicon dioxide is 3.8–4.2, keratin fibers have a dielectric constant of 1.6. That means electrons can move on the feather-based printed circuit boards at twice the speed as traditional circuit boards."

Amazing.  If it does work, you can put all the waste  feathers (about 3 billion pounds of it) to some good use. And of course, make better circuit boards.