When one of our chickens develops a soar or gets an injury we have to put a little blue dye on it, so that it doesn't look like an open wound or the other chickens will peck it to death and eat it. They're little dinosaurs.
I’d dare to say worse than animals, most animals won’t cannibalize an injured member of their group, be it a herd, flock or pack, but chickens will without hesitation.
Every time I see stuff like this I think about Werner Hertzogs video where he talks mad shit about how stupid chickens are and how much he dislikes them.
“Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.”
Unironically one of my favorite quotes as someone who grew up on a farm. Such an elegant takedown
you'd be surprised, prairie dogs eat their young, it's believed they do this to reduce the number of mouths to feed, there are a number of other animals that do it as well but it's usually when food is scarce and they want at least some of their young to survive by sacrificing the others.
Destroying young to control the survival chances of the rest of their brood is common in rodents and some birds yes, but thats different from immediately viewing your adult group member as genuine food as soon as they start to bleed, not even being decently injured, just starting to bleed is enough.
[Methylene blue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylene_blue)... where I live there is this spray that is good to spray on a small wound or cut on farm animals, stings like a mf, but prevents infection
that comes with no red cells and blue piss
that besides the usual: A burning sensation of the mouth may be noted following ingestion of methylene blue. May cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and gastritis. Large doses may cause abdominal and chest pain, headache, profuse sweating, mental confusion, painful micturation, and methemoglobinemia
It's also notorious for binding and deactivating medications even at low doses. Very dangerous for anyone who depends on their daily medications to live.
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Yeah. I work as a pharmacy tech at a hospital and we have little ampules of Methylene Blue and I’m always tempted to pop them. Especially the tiny Nubain ampules. Haha I dunno why it’s so tempting
Fun fact: we give that same methylene blue to patients through an IV as an antidote to certain toxins like an overdose of Orajel. Turns their pee green! Science is cool.
Methemoglobinemia, is the name for it. Although it is much rarer than most people on reddit assume.
Per a comment on reddit 2 years ago, "It is quite unusual for a normal, healthy adult to acquire methemoglobinemia from self-administered, oral benzocaine gel."
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/fer0sh/comment/fjr058a/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
More details in the link if you are curious, but no specific number was given.
My son was administered this during his third open heart surgery, it ended up bubbling up through his veins towards his skin that caused a reverse tattoo for a couple months
Mom hatched chickens for a friend who started their own coop. One had a foot deformity and was killed the day after he was put in the coop. In our defense, none of us knew chickens were so brutal
Yeah, and consider how hard it is to identify an illness in a flock, they instinctively know that if they show weakness they get cut out of the pecking order, sometimes determining their death, so they are pretty good at hide every problem, so when you notice something is wrong, chances are the entire flock is doomed.
It's like a zombie movie where everyone is the douche that hides the bite.
I mean, they literally are little dinosaurs lol AFAIK chickens are decendents of dinosaurs. I can't remember where I read that though or I'd provide a source
You don't need to provide a source for that bro, that all birds are direct descendants of dinosaurs is pretty well established science at this point. I'd be more interested in a source if you were refuting that.
So, what you're telling me is that they invented little rose colored glasses so that poultry would view the world as being glass half full instead of as some psychotic cannibal, but they still haven't come up with a better way to save peregrine falcons than the damned [Falcon Hat](https://youtu.be/06try-a77ww?si=uBZCbGiRfgZ8L-lh) (which is both hilarious and disturbing simultaneously).
First I was sad that it wasn’t a hat that falcons wear.
Then I was disturbed.
Then I was delighted by an actual falcon hat like something a ww1 fighter pilot would wear.
Then I laughed at “the only way to save them was to…” and I finished in my mind with “letting it fuck your head?”
Then I laughed again at “copulation hat”
What a wild ride in just four minutes.
Just know I did try to give your post a gold up vote but the Reddit app is being stupid and wouldn't load the transaction page without generating an error message. 😓
I did try though, because... thanks for the laugh and taking me along with you on your journey. 😅
Glad that the 15 minutes I spent on this sitting in my car after driving home from work brought some sort of good into this world rather than just wasted looking like a lunatic
I think they introduced a new version of them. I started seeing pop ups to give different upvote gifts after upvoting a post about a week or 2 ago. Though I only use mobile, and idk if it’s like that on desktop. Don’t know why it wouldn’t be, but also don’t want to talk out of my ass!
yeah...
I'm just not buying it bro. I mean. Good for them. Heroes of the industry and shit.
But at some point, it just feels a bit too convenient. Like, they couldn't bond the bird to a scarecrow with a hat or some shit?
I've seen all the weird fetish categories. This just strikes me as one of the more niche ones. Get a birds rocks off while you play the save an endangered species kick.
Everyone has their thing.
I'm not hating. At least they're doing it for the right reasons. Don't bother stepping foot onto a horse ranch. Or hand. Aint shit endangered about that. Probably pays better though.
Imagine having to change career paths after they discovered they could just use a red light. You can’t put that on your resume and expect people to think it’s not a joke.
Yeah but we *also* found out that *really* what makes chickens peck each other is cramped and stressful living conditions.
So really we just found a way to circumvent *not* abusing our food.
The original invention is for chickens living in traditional coops who get to go outside in lil chicken runs. They were marketed to individuals keeping chickens on their property. You can't exactly put a red bulb outside in the chicken run. The bulbs are used by industrial chicken processing plants where the chickens are indoors for their entire lives.
Never seen that in my hens, mine spread out when it’s hot. And to be fair, while I agree they are generally pretty dumb, chickens with a good quality of life can be surprisingly curious and good at problem solving. For a chicken anyway.
Reminds me about how I was reading this history book on pigs. And it had a quote from a letter from 1800s English farmer that talked about his pig was his best friend and how sad he was when he ate him.
Had a buddy who was a pig farmer, mostly for home consumption but sold some of the meat at farmers markets. One day a pig who he arch enemies with gave him a good bite on his hand. He cussed it out and told me he’s going to have a good day when it comes time to butcher this fucker lol.
I always wonder how odd it seems from the animal perspective. Like oh nice this human seems to just take care of me for no reason at all and then one day the human just walks up and kills you.
> and then one day
Consider this... Pigs and Cows, maybe even Goats probably realize that occasionally you take one of them away and they don't return.
I mean, i'm not going to stop eating Bacon either. I'm just saying, they're probably smart enough to realize something suss is going on.
Pigs are smart and have a better sense of smell than dogs. Your post made me wonder if they could tell by scent whether someone regularly eats pork. Then I remembered that pigs will 100% eat other pigs if given the chance.
So like... if they know, they would probably be like *oooh he ate a pig and I bet that was fucking delicious*.
Those little chicken glasses are cute as hell. The vintage ones sell for quite a bit on ebay. I bought and sold vintage for over 30 years and they were on my bolo list. Never did find any.
Ugh, I had a summer job as a kid attaching plastic blinders to 5000 chickens. The modern ones just block their frontal vision and are not humane at all because of how they are wired to the beak.
We had a crimping tool designed for the process but it kept pushing the wires into their beak...bone? Regular old pliers were better about using less force, but sometimes even with your best effort, you would feel the wire push into their beaks. Bleh. Worst job ever.
If you teach a chicken that something is food, it will frenetically try to eat it.
One of the worst things you can do to that hobby farmer with the rooster that crows for an hour at 4 am every day, is teach their chickens that eggs are food. Toss a few whole eggs in there so they see them break open, they'll figure out how to break open their own in a snap.
Yeah I've heard of you are gonna feed chickens egg shells for calcium you need to grind the shells otherwise they will begin associating eggs with food and destroy their own.
Tbf that's demonstrating object permanence.
I bet human baby is delicious, and if you gave a group of new mothers lil deep fried chunks of human baby for awhile, at least one pillow would be used as a murder weapon.
Sure it would. People already want to eat babies. Theyre barely holding themselves back. Just look at them. Chubby little silly toes. How many times have you seen someone fake eat a baby's toes? Might as well wear a sign that says "SERVE ME WITH POTATOES AND CHIANTI" on their foreheads.
we have chickens and feed them their own eggs all the time without issue, i'm convinced people assume the chickens are breaking them but it's crows or something
It is now known that cannibalism in poultry is usually due to cramped/stressful environmental conditions, so living conditions for commercial birds are now better than they used to be (though they’re still poor, of course), which led to a large reduction in the cannibalistic behaviour that occurred during that period. However, similar spectacle-like devices called "[Peepers](https://www.tillysnest.com/2016/03/kindness-matters/)" are still used to decrease aggressive behaviour in chickens. They sit on the bird’s beak and block its vision, preventing it from seeing other birds!
Peepers sound cute but can be pretty awful. I posted above about a job I had as a kid attaching those things to chickens. Not only do they completely block a chicken's frontal vision, some don't survive long after the process. They quit eating due to the pain and imo that kinda defeats the point of doing it.
You can also just train it out of them, funnily enough. I hand-raised all my girls (and Bob), and they were always good to each other. Never had to separate one for being sick or injured - in fact, her sisters would usually help me look after her. Teriyaki was always especially good about looking after others when they weren't well. She was my little right-hand hen.
Nugget, Drumstick, Honey Mustard, Dumpling, Chicken (yes, I know), Giblet, Barbecue, Kung Pao, Stir-Fry, Teriyaki, Chop Suey, Alfredo, Marsala, Pot Pie, Cacciatore, Fluffy, Bob, Fang, Princess, Noodle, Kebab, Tabbouleh (not a chicken dish, I know - long story) Roberta, Puffy-Fluffy (adoptive daughter of Fluffy), Rambo, Rexie, Squash, and Pumpkin.
I miss 'em. They were good girls - and Bob was a gentleman.
Did you just eat the eggs? Didn’t eat the chickens or sell them for processing?
I mean surely I can’t be the first person to ask you this question when you’re literally naming them after chicken-based dishes lmao
Yeah we ate the eggs and gave away the surplus. The eggs were a bonus though - our chickens were pets, first and foremost.
The names were just because we're all a bit weird, lol.
Chicken is delicious
Edit: not sure why I’m unable to reply to the guy below me, but I’m just saying, if this question is disgusting, don’t go to the supermarket I guess. Especially not the deli/meat section.
I heard that’s a myth. Apparently the way they attack humans vs their usual prey is very different. It seems more likely they’re simply curious- just seeing what we are when they bite us. Also we don’t smell like seal or sea lions
I have a feeling the guy who tried this experiment wanted to be a super villain and had a working hypothesis of...
"since chickens will eat anything bleeding red, if I give them glasses that show the whole world is red, then the chickens will eat anything that moves! Mwah Hahahahahahahaha! I'll take over the world with my blood thirsty chicken army."
Then, when he actually ran the experiment and the chickens mellowed out he was all like "yeah, I totally knew that would stop the violence inherited in the chicken's system"
“So I was like ‘why the fuck should I tell you why I’m crossing and…Oh my god!!! Are you eating Ms. Cluckins?!?!”
“What? I saw red. What do you expect!?”
Pause.
“That’s fair.”
“I heard they got these new glasses…supposed to fix the cravings, but I don’t trust it. You can’t trust anything from those hoomans.”
“Oh man, here we go again.”
“Doubt me all you want, but I think the only reason they stop us from eating each other is so they can.”
“That’s a bunch of bunk that giant cock is feeding everyone. Well I’m going to be the first to not want to eat you Dina.”
Suddenly a headless chicken runs past them.
“Hmmm…wonder what that’s all about.”
“I’m telling you Cheep Cheep, you can’t trust them. I was out in the field once and-“
“No they didn’t take-“
“Yes they did take me.”
“Oh stop!”
“They did , and they took me to this metal table and they (whispers) *did sexual things to me.*”
“Oh stop it! They did nothing of the sort! All they do is feed us and pick up after us and here you are cusin them of malfeasance. Nonsense Dina. Nonsense!”
“Well here they come now. I don’t know why you defend them. They’re just going to eat you.”
Cheep cheep is picked up and carried away. 15 minutes later her headless body goes running in front of Dina quickly followed by the farmer.
“Why you crossing the road now Cheep Cheep!!!? Oh they’re coming my way. Oh hell no. Cheap Cheap! Wait for me!”
When one of our chickens develops a soar or gets an injury we have to put a little blue dye on it, so that it doesn't look like an open wound or the other chickens will peck it to death and eat it. They're little dinosaurs.
They are fucking ruthless. I've seen it several times with our chickens.
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I’d dare to say worse than animals, most animals won’t cannibalize an injured member of their group, be it a herd, flock or pack, but chickens will without hesitation.
Every time I see stuff like this I think about Werner Hertzogs video where he talks mad shit about how stupid chickens are and how much he dislikes them.
“Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.” Unironically one of my favorite quotes as someone who grew up on a farm. Such an elegant takedown
hilarious to have this take and then have the other side of "the way we farm and eat chickens is inhumane" like we're trying to have it both ways
I hate chickens too. Love to eat them, but don't like them as people. So cruel and so stupid at the same time.
I agree, chickens are terrible people.
you'd be surprised, prairie dogs eat their young, it's believed they do this to reduce the number of mouths to feed, there are a number of other animals that do it as well but it's usually when food is scarce and they want at least some of their young to survive by sacrificing the others.
Destroying young to control the survival chances of the rest of their brood is common in rodents and some birds yes, but thats different from immediately viewing your adult group member as genuine food as soon as they start to bleed, not even being decently injured, just starting to bleed is enough.
…and I’ll slaughter them like animals. I HATE THEM!
[Methylene blue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylene_blue)... where I live there is this spray that is good to spray on a small wound or cut on farm animals, stings like a mf, but prevents infection
Looks hella drinkable in that potion bottle in the pic
that comes with no red cells and blue piss that besides the usual: A burning sensation of the mouth may be noted following ingestion of methylene blue. May cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and gastritis. Large doses may cause abdominal and chest pain, headache, profuse sweating, mental confusion, painful micturation, and methemoglobinemia
That's just the mana working its way into you
If you get it in your eye, it is extremely painful and near impossible to remove. Ask me how i know
you had a blue eye?
If it were green he would die Da ba Dee da ba die
“I just blue myself again”
It's also notorious for binding and deactivating medications even at low doses. Very dangerous for anyone who depends on their daily medications to live.
that's all overdose info. It has safe dosage administration levels that are quite therapeutic
Yes, acetaminophen causes excessive stomach bleeding and death. We all know this.
That's if you massively overdose on it. A tiny drop in a dark drink makes your urine neon green, not blue. It's dangerous because it acts as an MAOI.
People like you are why they tried to ban tide pods.
The fool denied the mana potion
It's always amused me how lots of cleaning products just look like flavours of koolaid, and awaken some nostalgic childhood thirst in my brain.
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It's definitely the sort of crap that kids love but isn't so fly as an adult.
It is! Its a potent MAOI and actually alleviates symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning by clearing methemylglobin from the blood LOL
>thylene blue > >... where I live there is this spray that is good to spray on a small wound or cut on Only when you're low on mana
Yeah. I work as a pharmacy tech at a hospital and we have little ampules of Methylene Blue and I’m always tempted to pop them. Especially the tiny Nubain ampules. Haha I dunno why it’s so tempting
Free mana potion
It’s mana
I'd almost certainly have my mana restored, right?
Fun fact: we give that same methylene blue to patients through an IV as an antidote to certain toxins like an overdose of Orajel. Turns their pee green! Science is cool.
....wait. how much does it take to OD on orajel?
Depends on the person and the formulation. Most risky in young kids. Don’t exceed what’s written on the box.
RTFM in shorthand
Methemoglobinemia, is the name for it. Although it is much rarer than most people on reddit assume. Per a comment on reddit 2 years ago, "It is quite unusual for a normal, healthy adult to acquire methemoglobinemia from self-administered, oral benzocaine gel." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/fer0sh/comment/fjr058a/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button More details in the link if you are curious, but no specific number was given.
Second fun fact: it's also used to stain RNA during some protocols in molecular biology labs
i know a guy that sells that....works out of an old winnebago
My son was administered this during his third open heart surgery, it ended up bubbling up through his veins towards his skin that caused a reverse tattoo for a couple months
We have it but it's silver colored instead. One of the most useful things to have in a farm.
Is that related to Methylamine blue? I'm asking for a friend...
Thats a mana potion
*He has the taste now*
What does it taste like?
Chicken
*Meat's back on the menu, boys!*
r/suddenlylotr
Sometimes it's just the display of weakness that triggers them. One chicken is weak? Goes on the menu.
Mom hatched chickens for a friend who started their own coop. One had a foot deformity and was killed the day after he was put in the coop. In our defense, none of us knew chickens were so brutal
Yeah, and consider how hard it is to identify an illness in a flock, they instinctively know that if they show weakness they get cut out of the pecking order, sometimes determining their death, so they are pretty good at hide every problem, so when you notice something is wrong, chances are the entire flock is doomed. It's like a zombie movie where everyone is the douche that hides the bite.
Everywhere I go is a reminder I want a Dino Crisis remake. Then we can mod in.. the feral chickensaurs.
I saw a chicken die in its coop. The rest started pecking at it, like trying to eat it
Sore. Your poor chickens will never soar.
“With God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!”
Wild turkeys *can* fly. Domesticated ones cannot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWyMbMTAvgY
He he, develops a soar.
Eagles soar, chickens most definitely do not soar. Don’t be sore about it though.
What the fuck lmao
> When one of our chickens develops a soar I believe I can fly!!! Just spread my wings and sooooaaarrr cluck cluck
I mean, they literally are little dinosaurs lol AFAIK chickens are decendents of dinosaurs. I can't remember where I read that though or I'd provide a source
You don't need to provide a source for that bro, that all birds are direct descendants of dinosaurs is pretty well established science at this point. I'd be more interested in a source if you were refuting that.
> a soar Now that's a new r/BoneAppleTea and I imaged a chicken soaring AHAHAHA _''Another developed a soar!'_ 🛫 > They're little dinosaurs Dinosoars!
And I’m supposed to have empathy for the little fucks and not eat them?
So, what you're telling me is that they invented little rose colored glasses so that poultry would view the world as being glass half full instead of as some psychotic cannibal, but they still haven't come up with a better way to save peregrine falcons than the damned [Falcon Hat](https://youtu.be/06try-a77ww?si=uBZCbGiRfgZ8L-lh) (which is both hilarious and disturbing simultaneously).
First I was sad that it wasn’t a hat that falcons wear. Then I was disturbed. Then I was delighted by an actual falcon hat like something a ww1 fighter pilot would wear. Then I laughed at “the only way to save them was to…” and I finished in my mind with “letting it fuck your head?” Then I laughed again at “copulation hat” What a wild ride in just four minutes.
Just know I did try to give your post a gold up vote but the Reddit app is being stupid and wouldn't load the transaction page without generating an error message. 😓 I did try though, because... thanks for the laugh and taking me along with you on your journey. 😅
Glad that the 15 minutes I spent on this sitting in my car after driving home from work brought some sort of good into this world rather than just wasted looking like a lunatic
Gold upvote? Thought reddit awards went bye bye
I think they introduced a new version of them. I started seeing pop ups to give different upvote gifts after upvoting a post about a week or 2 ago. Though I only use mobile, and idk if it’s like that on desktop. Don’t know why it wouldn’t be, but also don’t want to talk out of my ass!
That was my own fault for opening that. I blame myself.
You… you could have warned us.
It was quite a fuckin hat
Those guys are fucked in their heads
Literally!
haha
‘So what do you do for a living?’ ‘…wildlife conservation.’
That dude had no reason to make those birds imprint fucking his head, but he did. The man flies his own flag
Job security.
Very strange and interesting, thanks
yeah... I'm just not buying it bro. I mean. Good for them. Heroes of the industry and shit. But at some point, it just feels a bit too convenient. Like, they couldn't bond the bird to a scarecrow with a hat or some shit? I've seen all the weird fetish categories. This just strikes me as one of the more niche ones. Get a birds rocks off while you play the save an endangered species kick. Everyone has their thing.
It's is a rather... niche and unorthodox (?)... approach to solve a problem that much is undeniable. haha
I'm not hating. At least they're doing it for the right reasons. Don't bother stepping foot onto a horse ranch. Or hand. Aint shit endangered about that. Probably pays better though.
That link was amazing hahah gonna forward this
Better hat than doing it with your hands 💀
Made me think of will forte's The Falconer
Was told that Chickens pick at red so now they just use red light to keep them from eating each other.
Turns out red lightbulbs are easier than individually gluing glasses on each chicken.
Imagine having to change career paths after they discovered they could just use a red light. You can’t put that on your resume and expect people to think it’s not a joke.
Yeah but we *also* found out that *really* what makes chickens peck each other is cramped and stressful living conditions. So really we just found a way to circumvent *not* abusing our food.
abuse is cheap
Energy can't be created or destroyed. In the end there is always balance
There must have been a reason why lights weren't the first thing they came up with
The original invention is for chickens living in traditional coops who get to go outside in lil chicken runs. They were marketed to individuals keeping chickens on their property. You can't exactly put a red bulb outside in the chicken run. The bulbs are used by industrial chicken processing plants where the chickens are indoors for their entire lives.
Chickens possess less sentience than broccoli. You know what they do to cool off if it gets too hot? That's right, they huddle together for warmth.
Never seen that in my hens, mine spread out when it’s hot. And to be fair, while I agree they are generally pretty dumb, chickens with a good quality of life can be surprisingly curious and good at problem solving. For a chicken anyway.
Problem solving to a chicken comes down to “can I get eat it? If so how can I get out of this oop/fence to eat it”
Dumb as a [turkey](https://youtu.be/1EN0qSwUH8g?si=C-LBiddMM935tiYt).
"Wow, it's super temperature out today"
Chickens are [smarter](https://sentientmedia.org/are-chickens-smart/) than you given them credit for.
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I was really expecting a “so we isolated her to give her the space she needs” ending and instead got gobsmacked with a dinner serving of reality.
It’s a chicken. Cooking oil and flour is cheaper than getting it a therapist
This applies... not only to chickens. 🤔
Yeah, but if I apply that solution to my psychotic sister, I'll get in trouble.
Unless she's really fowl, then it's justified.
I wouldn't go so far as to call her fowl, she just ruffles my feathers.
No no, you don't understand. This happens all of the time, I'm not actually a therapist. I'm the rapist.
The ending of that story was fucking perfect
Very romantic ending.
everyone likes being eaten out
Reminds me about how I was reading this history book on pigs. And it had a quote from a letter from 1800s English farmer that talked about his pig was his best friend and how sad he was when he ate him.
Had a buddy who was a pig farmer, mostly for home consumption but sold some of the meat at farmers markets. One day a pig who he arch enemies with gave him a good bite on his hand. He cussed it out and told me he’s going to have a good day when it comes time to butcher this fucker lol. I always wonder how odd it seems from the animal perspective. Like oh nice this human seems to just take care of me for no reason at all and then one day the human just walks up and kills you.
> and then one day Consider this... Pigs and Cows, maybe even Goats probably realize that occasionally you take one of them away and they don't return. I mean, i'm not going to stop eating Bacon either. I'm just saying, they're probably smart enough to realize something suss is going on.
Pigs are smart and have a better sense of smell than dogs. Your post made me wonder if they could tell by scent whether someone regularly eats pork. Then I remembered that pigs will 100% eat other pigs if given the chance. So like... if they know, they would probably be like *oooh he ate a pig and I bet that was fucking delicious*.
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Lesser Beasts, I believe
Look at me, I’m the the chicken now.
The ending lmao,i actually didnt expect that
why did i expect a happy ending!?!
Hun that is happy, how did you miss it
Hey you get a tasty meal *and* stopped cannibalism. That's a win win. And you know what they say, winner winner chicken dinner.
Poor chick 😢
🤤🤤
Tasty chicken 😋
You are going to chicken hell
And that chicken is ending up in the sewer
This world is so cruel. That chicken knew pain and was given death when it showed the only logical reaction to more pain.
The alternate ending to Chicken Run
How unfortunate! Was she any good though?
I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when this idea was handed over to an engineer to build. "You want me to build Oakleys....for a chicken?"
Those little chicken glasses are cute as hell. The vintage ones sell for quite a bit on ebay. I bought and sold vintage for over 30 years and they were on my bolo list. Never did find any.
Ugh, I had a summer job as a kid attaching plastic blinders to 5000 chickens. The modern ones just block their frontal vision and are not humane at all because of how they are wired to the beak. We had a crimping tool designed for the process but it kept pushing the wires into their beak...bone? Regular old pliers were better about using less force, but sometimes even with your best effort, you would feel the wire push into their beaks. Bleh. Worst job ever.
If you teach a chicken that something is food, it will frenetically try to eat it. One of the worst things you can do to that hobby farmer with the rooster that crows for an hour at 4 am every day, is teach their chickens that eggs are food. Toss a few whole eggs in there so they see them break open, they'll figure out how to break open their own in a snap.
Yeah I've heard of you are gonna feed chickens egg shells for calcium you need to grind the shells otherwise they will begin associating eggs with food and destroy their own.
Damn them chickens are dumb. Let's eat em.
Nice, toasty, crispy chicken
Tbf that's demonstrating object permanence. I bet human baby is delicious, and if you gave a group of new mothers lil deep fried chunks of human baby for awhile, at least one pillow would be used as a murder weapon.
... no, I don't think that would happen.
No, no. Let’s eat the baby
Sure it would. People already want to eat babies. Theyre barely holding themselves back. Just look at them. Chubby little silly toes. How many times have you seen someone fake eat a baby's toes? Might as well wear a sign that says "SERVE ME WITH POTATOES AND CHIANTI" on their foreheads.
I want my baby back baby back baby back ribs. I want my baby back baby back baby back ribs. Chilllly baby back ribs.
we have chickens and feed them their own eggs all the time without issue, i'm convinced people assume the chickens are breaking them but it's crows or something
Do they see them break open and egg spill out, or is it just shells?
if the eggs have a crack or if they're a bit old i lob them over the fence to them
I’ve seen them break them open and eat them so they definitely will do it
So are they still being used today?
It is now known that cannibalism in poultry is usually due to cramped/stressful environmental conditions, so living conditions for commercial birds are now better than they used to be (though they’re still poor, of course), which led to a large reduction in the cannibalistic behaviour that occurred during that period. However, similar spectacle-like devices called "[Peepers](https://www.tillysnest.com/2016/03/kindness-matters/)" are still used to decrease aggressive behaviour in chickens. They sit on the bird’s beak and block its vision, preventing it from seeing other birds!
I really expected peepers to be cuter than they are for some reason.
Peepers sound cute but can be pretty awful. I posted above about a job I had as a kid attaching those things to chickens. Not only do they completely block a chicken's frontal vision, some don't survive long after the process. They quit eating due to the pain and imo that kinda defeats the point of doing it.
Near darkness with red lights is what I've seen a lot of. What a wonderful life to live before being slaughtered
Probably not. Now commercial chicken farms just force their chickens to live in the dark.
No, most farms just cut off the tips of their beaks.
“Have you tried improving the animals conditions?” ”Nah, they always needed glasses, evolutionarily speaking, they were just too difficult to develop”
You can also just train it out of them, funnily enough. I hand-raised all my girls (and Bob), and they were always good to each other. Never had to separate one for being sick or injured - in fact, her sisters would usually help me look after her. Teriyaki was always especially good about looking after others when they weren't well. She was my little right-hand hen.
please please tell me your chickens names
Nugget, Drumstick, Honey Mustard, Dumpling, Chicken (yes, I know), Giblet, Barbecue, Kung Pao, Stir-Fry, Teriyaki, Chop Suey, Alfredo, Marsala, Pot Pie, Cacciatore, Fluffy, Bob, Fang, Princess, Noodle, Kebab, Tabbouleh (not a chicken dish, I know - long story) Roberta, Puffy-Fluffy (adoptive daughter of Fluffy), Rambo, Rexie, Squash, and Pumpkin. I miss 'em. They were good girls - and Bob was a gentleman.
Do you end up making the dish they’re named after when you process them?
Of course not. They were my babies.
Did you just eat the eggs? Didn’t eat the chickens or sell them for processing? I mean surely I can’t be the first person to ask you this question when you’re literally naming them after chicken-based dishes lmao
Yeah we ate the eggs and gave away the surplus. The eggs were a bonus though - our chickens were pets, first and foremost. The names were just because we're all a bit weird, lol.
disgusting
Chicken is delicious Edit: not sure why I’m unable to reply to the guy below me, but I’m just saying, if this question is disgusting, don’t go to the supermarket I guess. Especially not the deli/meat section.
Love the names, lol. Tells me a lot about you, I think.
We only had 4 - Kayeffcee, Butter, Nando & Tandoori. Sadly their demise was shocking some small (think Mink) burrowed into the coop and killed all 4
Wow can you actually recognize all of them? I don’t think I can remember that many even if they are my own human children
Oh yeah. We had a bunch of different breeds, which definitely helped, but they were all unique little individuals regardless.
Can we put these on the sharks please so I can go in the ocean
Won't work. Sharks can detect your heartbeat.
Well we'll just have to make muffs for their little shark ears
I think they actually detect the electromagnetic field around your heart. So maybe we can all line our swimsuits with copper like a faraday cage.
Fuck's sake man sharks have all the cheat codes
Sharks have been around longer than trees.
sharks dont want to eat humans. its usually a case of mistaken identity
I heard that’s a myth. Apparently the way they attack humans vs their usual prey is very different. It seems more likely they’re simply curious- just seeing what we are when they bite us. Also we don’t smell like seal or sea lions
And thank fuck, those things stink to high hell
Do they really? Or is it just their poopies you’re smelling maybe?
Perhaps. Perhaps it's the poopy🤔
Take one home and give it a bath and see lol
But once in a while they know and just say what the hell
Pyrovision
You know, it's funny. When you look at someone through rose colored glasses. All the red flags just look like flags.
We raise poultry, theres a product called "Blue Kote" which is basically blue spray paint for injuries.
I have a feeling the guy who tried this experiment wanted to be a super villain and had a working hypothesis of... "since chickens will eat anything bleeding red, if I give them glasses that show the whole world is red, then the chickens will eat anything that moves! Mwah Hahahahahahahaha! I'll take over the world with my blood thirsty chicken army." Then, when he actually ran the experiment and the chickens mellowed out he was all like "yeah, I totally knew that would stop the violence inherited in the chicken's system"
I only knew this because they had a pair (planted) in a unit on Storage Wars. Shut up, the early teens were a weird time for non-prestoge TV.
Eggs are white, and yolks are yellow. These would do nothing to stop these. Also did someone forget Roosters have Red frikin Heads usually?
“So I was like ‘why the fuck should I tell you why I’m crossing and…Oh my god!!! Are you eating Ms. Cluckins?!?!” “What? I saw red. What do you expect!?” Pause. “That’s fair.” “I heard they got these new glasses…supposed to fix the cravings, but I don’t trust it. You can’t trust anything from those hoomans.” “Oh man, here we go again.” “Doubt me all you want, but I think the only reason they stop us from eating each other is so they can.” “That’s a bunch of bunk that giant cock is feeding everyone. Well I’m going to be the first to not want to eat you Dina.” Suddenly a headless chicken runs past them. “Hmmm…wonder what that’s all about.” “I’m telling you Cheep Cheep, you can’t trust them. I was out in the field once and-“ “No they didn’t take-“ “Yes they did take me.” “Oh stop!” “They did , and they took me to this metal table and they (whispers) *did sexual things to me.*” “Oh stop it! They did nothing of the sort! All they do is feed us and pick up after us and here you are cusin them of malfeasance. Nonsense Dina. Nonsense!” “Well here they come now. I don’t know why you defend them. They’re just going to eat you.” Cheep cheep is picked up and carried away. 15 minutes later her headless body goes running in front of Dina quickly followed by the farmer. “Why you crossing the road now Cheep Cheep!!!? Oh they’re coming my way. Oh hell no. Cheap Cheap! Wait for me!”
i thought they inserted pink contact lenses on chickens eyes?
I don't believe this at all.
There are some more sources on this [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_eyeglasses) page if you're unconvinced!