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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 50 points 5 days ago (1 children)

As others have already said, chickens do not discriminate when it comes to eating. They're savage.

If a chicken gets injured, you have to (usually) isolate it. Not because of infection risk, but because the others will peck and eat them down to bone. There's folks that have had it turn into a mini apocalypse. One bird gets hurt, gets pecked, and the squabbles cause injury to another one, and then everyone in the flock is at it.

There's one of the YouTube "homestead" people that lost something like a dozen hens because one of them was plucking feathers until the others were bleeding, and it spread.

Unlike a lot of livestock, chickens can actually eat chicken safely. It doesn't do them any harm. To the contrary, it's a good food for them overall, it just can't be their main food.

My little hen has grabbed chicken that fell on the floor before and gone to town on it. Then begged for more.

Hens eating eggs is also fairly common. Their own, other chickens' eggs, whatever. Roosters won't always eat egg, but hens will eat the shells in specific like it's going out of style. Can't recommend letting them eat the innards of the egg though. It comes out the other end eventually, and the smell is horrid.

The calcium of the shells is good for them.

Chickens are pretty damm cool tbh. When we got our first one, I hadn't been around any since I was a kid at my uncle's farm, and those were working hens. As pets, they're sometimes difficult, but very rewarding. I was just snuggling our rooster about a half hour ago.

Big old guy; without his feathers he'd be basketball size. With them, he's a beast. But come his bedtime, he gets to relax instead of having to be on swivel constantly. So I'll sit with him in my chair on the back porch, scratching under his neck feathers and petting him while he's nestled under my arm. Tonight, he was melting. Got so relaxed he was almost sliding off my lap.

The pet hen is sitting on my wife's leg right now, kinda purring as she naps. She'll come over to me later and get snuggled in under my arm until her bedtime. If she goes in too early, she gets mad and wants back on the couch with me, so she gets to stay out longer lol.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Tbf to chickens, cannibalism can be a sign there's some problem, like overcrowding, boredom, or not getting enough nutrition

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Can be, for sure

Then again, you would know :)

[–] holycrap@lemm.ee 36 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] TacoSocks@infosec.pub 21 points 5 days ago

I like this one better, doesn't sponsor a shitty corporation and has the extra layer of eating his own leg.

[–] AceBonobo@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Guys, I have the funniest solution to world hunger AND overpopulation...

[–] moody@lemmings.world 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 5 points 5 days ago

To eat the oligarchs

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago

Mad scientist hat on: engineer some gut bacteria to produce cellulase and we can eat grass.

Oh wait. You mean cannibalism. Okay. That works too.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 23 points 5 days ago

Chickens love to eat chicken, I’ve seen it myself. Of course they will eat literally anything. Their main way of determining what is edible it just to try to eat it and if it works then they eat it and if not… well best to try a few more times just to be sure.

[–] match@pawb.social 6 points 4 days ago

depicted: lgbt people who still eat at chikfila

[–] satans_methpipe@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

Why is an advertisment for a pro hate fast food joint being posted as a comic?

Larson did it! Larson did it!

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

with a bigotry aftertaste

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago

This place has gross chicken, and a horrendous track record for biggotry and torture.

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

If it was Popeyes, sure. Chick-fil-A is crap that has a decent sauce.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

My sister kept chickens for a while. They completely agree that chicken is delicious.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Chickens Starving, Resorting to Cannibalism at Government-Subsidized Poultry Company

Complainants from the foundering company’s Iowa slaughterhouse began contacting PETA last month, reporting that thousands of birds were being left for days without food or water on trucks parked at the facility as the company struggled to slaughter them. PETA immediately alerted U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) leadership to each of these complaints, offering to connect them with the eyewitnesses so that they could investigate and end the birds’ illegal suffering—but the agency never responded.

In response, PETA sent a letter this week to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack calling on him to investigate the USDA’s failure to fulfill its duties and to stop throwing taxpayer money at bad actors like Pure Prairie Poultry.

Incidentally, cannibalism is one powerful vector for disease mutation and spread.

Take that, PETA!

[–] gearheart@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Chicken Boo, what's the matter with you?

You wear a disguise to look like human guys

But you're not a man, you're Chicken Foo-d

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago
[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Now change that to Zaxbys and you've got yourself a comic!

[–] CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It’s an another, better, chicken oriented restaurant.

[–] CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't even have Chick-fil-a here in my city, closest is 40min drive. We have a KFC, and Popeye's that specialises in chicken though.

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one 1 points 4 days ago

I have a predisposition for Popeyes, being a military kid & all.

[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago

Fast lane to parasite town.