If they aren’t supposed to be cannibals then why the hell does their meat taste like chicken?
As someone who owns chickens and has had issues with chicken cannibalism in the past. This is a revolutionary product that I will be immediately researching and purchasing if real.
Can they reverse engineer this and have a spray that encourages cannibalism?
I have the funniest idea for my next family dinner
Yeah np
Lemmy has now redeemed the second of three wishes.
Oh shit. For the 3rd wish, can musk fuck off forever?
Too late, someone already used the last one a slightly dry turkey sandwich
Bummer. Did they at least wish for an extra large sandwich?
They did not, but they did request an additional meat: Lebanon Bologna.
Italian Lebron isn’t real
Chicken will eat one another if they are in distress. It doesn’t have to be starvation. It can be too many chickens packed into a small space.
Or one of them could scratch themselves on a fence and the smell of blood sets off a fucking frenzy.
They are dinosaurs bro.
This happens with pigs, had to separate them when a baby was born ( I would have separated beforehand, but wasn’t up to me) but yeah they’ll eat all that stuff and occasionally a baby.
People cause this level of social stunting by splitting up families and friends and then continue to tell themselves “it’s ok, they’re just livestock, so stupid!” and then take absolutely zero responsibility for fucking families up for so many generations that the animals become monsters to each other.
Now you’re going to blame people for when a new lion takes over a pride and kills all the kittens.
Even chickens think chickens are tasty.
“Easy to Use”. I certainly hope so, it’s a fucking spray bottle. What’s the hard to use option? Waiting until a new moon to summon Ba-Kok, God of Chickens to ask for a stay of cannibalism?
No, it’s only possible to talk to Ba-Kok, praise be His name, when the planets align.
Oops you drew the summoning sigils wrong again.
I mean, it could come in suppository form…
Well then good news!
It’s serious business. The paperwork is a nightmare though. The rich farmers have lawyers to file the appropriate writs, petitions, and incantations to stay the cannibalism. For those without the money, going before Ba-Kok can be intimidating and challenging.
I am an eye witness to such an event of chickens eating meat. Not chicken meat, but either beef or lamb.
I saw a squirrel eat an injured pigeon once. Nature is metal.
Chickens will eat almost anything. I once saw a chicken grab a frog and swallow it whole. One of its legs was hanging out of her mouth the rest of the day. She was fine afterwards.
Eggs are also especially tasty to them. You can feed them cooked eggs (very nutritious), but if they ever get ahold of a broken egg and realize how tasty they are, they can start eating their freshly laid eggs before you can collect them.
they ever get ahold of a broken egg and realize how tasty they are, they can start eating their freshly laid eggs before you can collect them.
Hello, God? I’d like to report a bug please.
Didn’t know chickens ate each other, at least not without frying
Birds will eat anything if they’re hungry and/or bored enough. Eggshells are actually (usually) good for them because of high calcium content.
“Eggshells are actually (usually) good for them because of high calcium content.”
Given that producing eggs must use up a bunch of calcium, this makes sense, in a "circle of life kind of way
Yep, recycling!
Do you think this is about chickens or about the way chickens are raised? Are chickens in the wild cannibalistic? This makes me not want to eat chicken ever again.
Shouldn’t you eat even more chicken, to save the world from the cannibals?
We do sometimes justify going to Chick-fil-A as only eating the homophobic chickens.
Wild chickens do this, yeah. They’ll insistently peck at anything red, this spray is usually for if a bird is injured to stop others or themselves pecking it and making it worse
you can also use it to help deter roosters who are getting too violent on hens, as they’ll peck and pull out feathers during the mating process
My family used to raise chickens when I was a kid. The chickens were free-range (only house for like a mile), but they had a coop to eat and nest in, which we shut every night. When getting new chickens to add to the flock (neighbor has too many, etc), we’d keep them in a “chicken tractor” for a few weeks (basically a small, mobile chicken coop). I guess that gave everyone time to get used to each other’s smells or something, because the few times we didn’t do that the new chickens would get pecked in the head by the locals, and once the locals realize that the new ones taste like blood it’s pretty much over for the new chickens.
Chickens will definitely pick and peck at each other until things get ugly, even with all possible room to roam. It isn’t caused by poor conditions like too small cages and such, but factory level conditions definitely make the problem worse.
You can have an acre and a handful of hens, and they’ll at least occasionally peck at each other. The problem really only starts when there’s an injury, or conditions prevent a bird from moving away from more peck heavy birds. You don’t want an injured chicken kept with the flock. It isn’t even necessarily eating the injured bird out of some kind of prey drive. They just go at even minor wounds.
Now, with enough space and care being taken, that isn’t likely to result in death. But it can, no matter how much room is involved if you don’t isolate injured birds.
I’m not sure exactly how “wild” you’re thinking, since you aren’t going to run into truly wild chickens in most places. But feral ones that started as kept birds, those you’ll find in plenty of places. Our neighborhood has two flocks that started from abandoned birds something like twenty years ago. And they’ll definitely eat the hell out of one of their own if it gets sick or injured. And they’ll absolutely eat one of their own that gets killed by a car or whatever.
We have a partly feral hen that decided she owns our yard. A while back, her comb got injured, and we had to keep our other hen inside long enough for the injury to heal, since we couldn’t catch the volunteer hen. They see a little blood, and they’re like “yum!”, the same as they do when they see a worm or bug or even a piece of meat.
And chickens will eat any meat they can get to. Chicken is even considered a good food for chickens. Won’t hurt them, plenty of protein, and they’ll gladly pick the bones clean of scraps.
I’ve seen chicken roaming the streets, sitting in planters, generally acting like feral cats in Key West. They didn’t seem mean. I really thought they ate plants and bugs and things. I bet they eat a lot of dead lizards there.
Oh yeah, chickens will wreck lizards, alive or dead.
They really are predators, just not exclusively so.
Our rooster sometimes gets in the mood and will go out into the brush and run down mice and such. The hens usually just grab what comes to them though. They’re plenty satisfied with their feed, the occasional egg that they don’t want around, and bugs. But if a small rodent catches their eyes, it is on. There will be mighty roars! Okay, more loud and satisfied buking with the sounds of thrashing as they dismember their prey.
But they aren’t really mean per se. They’re just driven by instincts more than a lot of critters. They see blood, and that means food, even if it’s a flock member bleeding. They have to establish their hierarchy within the flock, and that does come with some (okay, a lot sometimes) pecking, but it isn’t being done just for the fun of it. It admissions maintains a stable flock and ensures resources for the ones that are on top if resources run low.
As long as there’s plenty of food and space, they don’t kill each other intentionally, as in to eat. They’re just highly motivated, and it goes bad sometimes.
They can be really sweet to each other, and to humans. My little hen is sitting here on the arm of the couch preening and seeking attention as I type this. Every evening when she comes in, we cuddle a bit before she naps. And she’ll nestle with both the other birds at times as well. She’ll also keep both of them in line with pecks as needed, including the big numpty of a rooster that’s twice her size, but ten minutes later they’ll be in their little spots next to each other being companionable.
They aren’t exactly smart, or even highly complex in the way you might expect birds to be if you’ve been around parrots and their ilk. But they do have that mix of vicious instinct and affection that a lot of social animals have.
If you’re interested, in my post history, last sunday I did my usual weekly comment in the [email protected] pets sunday post. I put pictures of our three in the comment. The community used to be at [email protected] , but that instance is shutting down. But I’ve been telling stories about our adventures in chickening for a while now. They are endlessly entertaining to me lol.
Thanks. I’ve read your posts about your little hen and her nighttime ritual. Sweet, bossy girl.
Chickens sounds like the cats of the bird world. Lovey and vicious. Would eat you if they were hungry, or maybe just for fun.
We have household joke that the hen is allowed to eat our eyeballs, particularly if we’re dead, but not limited to that state.
Chickens are omnivores. They will eat anything they can get their beaks on. I saw them eat mice, dead rats, their own eggs, other chickens.
Chickens also have a very brutal pecking order. The chickens on the lower end of that order will get bullied pretty bad and lose feathers. Once they draw blood the other chickens my join in and peck the wounded chicken and break away pieces of it or even kill it.
This is the worst if the chickens are stressed but it happens even in chickens that are living in good conditions. One of the better way to counter it is to have a rooster with the chickens as the rooster will reprimand the bullies and break any fights between hens. A lot of chicken farmers don’t want to do that though because roosters will fight each other to death if you put multiple in the same enclosure and in the case of egg laying chickens they don’t lay eggs and will mate with the chickens which makes them lay fertilized eggs.
The way chicken are raised
There is a dedicated ICD-10 medical code for “eye pecked out by a chicken”. They’re vicious little fuckers.
The ICD list has some insane stuff.
Y36511D: War operations involving direct blast effect of nuclear weapon, civilian, subsequent encounter
Well, it’s important. If you’re injured by a direct blast effect of a nuclear weapon, insurance needs a way to quickly reject that! After all, you didn’t get nuclear coverage on your plan!
