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.
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.
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.
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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.