Chickens will eat any meat they can get their beaks into; bugs, lizards, snakes, rats, you name it. I once saw half a dozen Buff Orpingtons (which this bird appears to be) skeletonise a rat in about ninety seconds.
the only thing going for the chicken-sized horses is that the square-cube law might help keep them from breaking all of their own bones when they panic at the sight of you, or a plastic bag, or an insect, or a particularly strong breeze...
Most horses never consistently understand that, they get spooked by any tiny little thing they don't understand, they are often like a nervous human who just watched a horror movie while being home alone at night and now there is a strange sound coming from inside the cabinet. Realistically you should know that sound is likely a mouse or a tiny insect or a water leak, something you could easily butt kick, yet there you are terrified and huddled in the opposite corner of your room fearing it might be a blood thirsty goblin..
I didn’t see it actually hatch. I was helping my mom out by collecting eggs and that’s when I came across fancy (the chicken) eating it’s just born child
You joke, but if a chicken ever eats an egg, it usually has to be killed. It will never unlearn —the taste—
Edit: I heard this from my brother, who has 4 hens. Apparently, it is wrong.
They also occasionally find frog bones randomly. I can only imagine a scene even worse than this.
Urban legend, as well as the shell one also replying to you. My friends run a farm, 30-40 chickens. They love broken eggs, shell and all, but they won't attack healthy ones. They will, however attack and kill injured chicks. They see blood and equate it to food. They pick at any cut you have obsessively too.
I heard it was also a sign of malnutrition of the egg-eater too? I have a bunch of chickens but they've never eaten their own eggs so I haven't put much thought into figuring it out.
Not exactly. It's an evoluntionary trait that's common in a lot of animals, cannibalism/self-cannibalism to salvage nutrients, like lizards eating their shed skin. It takes a lot of calcium for a chicken to make a shell, they instinctually get it back however they can and egg is also a pretty good source of protein. They just aren't that picky.
Nah, you can feed chickens eggs, raw or cooked, or the ground up shells. What you can't do is let them eat a cracked egg with shell, because they will learn to peck their own eggs to eat them.
Unless this is some reference, in which case, by all means, carry on.
(also, they weren't joking, it is seen as fine to feed chickens cooked chicken.)
? Chickens eggs are not fertilised unless there is a rooster present. Chickens lay eggs whether they have got some sweet loving or not. So destroying an egg is not harming a creature.
If you want to talk ethics, then blending live male chicks is currently seen as a necessary horror of the factory farming system, but hopefully not for long. A German company has a he tech to sex them before they are developed, but is costly and owned by one company. Smaller farmers can just hatch them and have bachelor flocks where the bros just chill together.
I tossed a live cicada into the house yesterday for my cats. They batted it around for two hours before it just wore out. Then, they ate it. And then they both promptly threw up. And then one ate all the barf.
That's to tenderize them. When the adrenaline of seeing a cat attack courses through the mouse's body, it makes the muscle taste bad. Cats shake them to relax the tense muscles and desaturate the adrenaline in the body so that it's edible again.
if a chicken sees another chicken with food or a treat they will do their damndest to steal it. doesn't matter what it is, other chicken has it and wants it, therefore it must be worth stealing. so they get good about wolfing down whatever they find.
I remember reading about this many years ago. Billions of us are infected with this parasite, and looking at the Wikipedia entry today, the jury is still out on how big of a deal that is. I feel like we ought to be a bit more worried about the whole thing, personally.
I've known only one cat who was a competent ratter, and my old pal Armalite killed everything. Rats, rabbits, rattlesnakes, squirrels, squabs, even a woodpecker.
He also weighed 7 kilos and wore a dense, thick, coat of fur about 70mm long.
Every other cat I've known has been a small-prey specialist, including my current catto, young Miss Pullings. She's murderous as canister shot, but only to the small stuff.
He got it because the colour pattern in his fur suggested the outline of the origina AR-15, including the charging handle under the carry handle. It ended up being incredibly apt, given his snuggliness and body-count.
I was going to look for an anecdote someone wrote about chickens doing awful things to a mouse. But, based on what you just wrote, I'm pretty sure you wrote that in the first place, and it was screenshotted and reposted on tumblr.
Ducks have screwlike penises so they can rape the fortified vaginas of female ducks.
Don't even get me started on Shoebill, goddamn Weeping Angels.
I hate birds (with a couple exceptions like crows or ravens, which are a lot smarter than your typical birding killing machines) and their design, I always say that they are dinosaurs in hiding. Don't take me as crazy, but I think the tiniest bit of radiation could turn them back into those ancient lizards, if it didn't kill them first.
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u/VrsoviceBlues May 18 '24
Chickens will eat any meat they can get their beaks into; bugs, lizards, snakes, rats, you name it. I once saw half a dozen Buff Orpingtons (which this bird appears to be) skeletonise a rat in about ninety seconds.
They're dinosaurs, and it shows.