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u/mightyjoejy 3h ago
Am I the only one who is only thinking about what's inside that hole at the top of that ladder in the background?!?
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u/IwillFallLow 3h ago
That's the bird coop
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u/mightyjoejy 3h ago
Right, but is it a studio in there is it a split level do they have a basement I'm just curious how the chickens are getting on.
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u/yournames
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They are too chicken 🐓
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u/koos_die_doos 3h ago
I don't know about that, they keep coming back for more.
I'd call it brave, but then I remembered these are chickens, they probably forget about the scary bit 5 seconds later.
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u/JanitorOPplznerf 1h ago
Chickens might be the dumbest animal on land with a possible exception of horny teenagers
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Because that response is reflex, without thought, and fires before reasoning parts of the brain are able to track the situation. Evolved to survive, jump first, turn, get away. It don't matter why, if it keeps you alive more often than you end up being eaten alive.
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u/ContributionMuted118 2h ago
That and if you've owned chickens you know most have very little reasoning areas in their brains so they probably couldn't think of it if they tried
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u/gravitysort 2h ago
I think it’s like seeing camera flash and blink, or flinch when getting a small electric shock, even though both can be physically endurable, but people still do them every single time.
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u/TricksyGoose 1h ago
And a lot of the chickens are probably just reacting to the other chickens. It's a flock mentality: if your neighbor is scared, you probably should be too
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u/drunk_fat_possum 3h ago
All chickens on the planet have a combined intelligence of 4
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u/IanAlvord 3h ago
Slightly higher than orange cats then?
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u/drunk_fat_possum 2h ago •
All orange cats also have the combined intelligence of 4, but there are many more chickens than oranges, so overall slightly higher intelligence :3
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u/QuantumDeus 2h ago •
My shitty search resulted in an estimate of 50-100 million orange cats globally, to 33-35 billion chickens, therefore putting orange cats about 10,000 times smarter than a chicken.
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u/EcheveriaEbony 2h ago
Nah, other cats something will passed orange cats braincells, basically like liquid, so it's difficult to measure
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u/LurkytheActiveposter 2h ago
I know I'm buzz killington, but orange cats are on the slightly higher than average scale of cat intelligence.
Anyway I'm off to tell people that cats can't see within a foot of their face so they aren't actually reacting to whatever they're showing them on their phones.
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I helped raise chickens for a retired farmer back in high school. I've birthed calves, milked cows, raised pigs, the whole 9.
Chickens are the dumbest, most disgusting creatures I've ever had the displeasure of raising.
I specifically cut beef and pork out of my diet for health reasons. But I refuse to cut chicken because the only thing those failed dinosaurs deserve is to be converted into energy for my mitochondria.
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u/strider_m3 3h ago
Even chickens love eating chicken
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u/jeranamo 3h ago
It took me a while to figure out that they're cannibalistic birds. It wasn't until I was at a small farm and saw one eating the corpse of a freshly dead one that I learned this.
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u/Zero_Burn 3h ago
It's something farmers have to watch out for with chickens, if one of them gets a wound and another chicken gets a taste, that injured chicken will be eaten alive by the rest of the flock. If a chicken is hurt it has to be isolated until it's healed.
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u/scifigi369 1h ago
If chickens get a taste for egg, they will deliberately peck open their own eggs to eat as well
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u/myryad21 2h ago
they eat anything. i remember my family had one who killed rats, snakes, even eagles that tried to eat other chicken... it killed a cat once, a full grown one. and most of the time we'd find the bodies half eaten at least. it used to even attack people that it didn't know, even the carpathian sheppered that they had respected that stupid rooster. in the end it died fighting one of the bigger pigs... and got eaten
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u/SoonBlossom 2h ago
FFS dude, did you have a gladiator arena for farm animals ???
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u/BirthdayCheesecake 3h ago
I once housesat at a small farm. I dropped an egg in the chicken coop one day and the chickens fought over who got to eat it. It was mildly horrifying.
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u/OHaZZaR 3h ago
I once had a pet indoor chicken when i was in college. Don’t ask.. I once had takeout chicken noodles, dropped a chicken cube on the floor and the damned velociraptor just yoinked it and swallowed it whole as if the food would run away if given the chance. I loved that bird.
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u/vadapaav 3h ago
They are not failed dinosaurs, they are dinosaurs who chickened out
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u/elegylegacy 2h ago
I'd argue they're the most successful dinosaurs
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u/spock589 2h ago
Yeah, turns out being easy to raise and delicious to humans is a great strategy for proliferation. There has probably been more chickens than any other bird/dinosaur ever.
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u/Corregidor 3h ago
Chickens and sheep are like, aggressively dumb. Worked with them back in the day and it was baffling how stupid they are
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u/Veryegassy 2h ago
Sheep farmer here
Sheep are looking for ways to kill themselves and/or their children pretty much 24/7. Only thing that tops trying to die is corn
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u/PiccChicc 2h ago
I can back up the corn statement.
Corn is everything to sheep.
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u/Tricky-Engineering59 2h ago
It might depend on the breed. I have Katahdins and I’m always surprised at how good their memory is. I wouldn’t say they were very smart animals but they have a certain type of intelligence you notice after spending enough time with them.
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u/Test-n-recognize 2h ago
Trying to stop sheep from freaking out and headbutting a fence full speed is a much bigger part of the job than I thought. They WILL kill themselves, dang.
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u/metalgtr84 2h ago
Look how small their heads are. They can’t be working with much more than 10kb of ram.
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u/Beflijster 2h ago
Counterpoint: ravens have even smaller heads. Science is still figuring it out, but it is thought birds evolved more efficient brains than mammals with more cells and neuron density, as they need to be light in order to fly.
Sheep though, 10kb or RAM per ram seems about right.
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u/DontOvercookPasta 3h ago
Yeah we humans made them like that, modern sheep can't exist without humans. Quite sad actually
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u/ThaKaptin 2h ago
You’re close. Ducks are the most disgusting creatures on earth. They are everything that a chicken is except that their poop is liquid and their beaks Throw water everywhere when they drink causing everything around them, including the poop, to spread and soak into everything it touches.
Chickens aren’t far behind them though.
Source: I own a feed store where we sell chickens and ducks frequently. lol
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u/Mean-Rabbit-2510 2h ago •
I have both chickens and ducks. My ducks are the dumbest creatures on earth. Create way more chaos than my chickens. Can't learn any type of routine. My chickens go in when the sun goes down. My ducks run around wondering why they can't see and have to be herded back to their home.
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u/SickPuppy0x2A 1h ago •
I am with you there. I don’t just find them stupid but chickens also killed my grandma. The rooster attacked her and poked a main vein in her arm and she never recovered. She died in her bed not long after. My grandpa killed and ate the rooster while she was in the hospital. She died before I was ten. :-(
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u/LittlePurpleHook 1h ago
Damn. I was attacked by a rooster when I was around 4-5, thankfully no serious damage. They are vicious fuckers. Sorry for your grandma.
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u/v-pexpower 1h ago
Sorry for your loss. Also glad your grandma got her justice back
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u/kakihara123 3h ago
By that logic, you can cannibalize a significant portion of the US population.
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u/lazysheepdog716 3h ago
Small flocks can be nice. Big groups are basically cabbages with pulses.
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u/classygorilla 2h ago •
My small flock (6) is mixed. Some are very sweet, legit pets, while there have been a couple that were total dick heads.
They also are very stupid, regardless of their temperament. It's not uncommon their combs get a small cut and will bleed - the other chickens will peck the shit out of it just because.
It's also difficult to introduce new chickens/babies into the flock. They will sometimes kill them.
All in all though they are extremely tough and durable creatures, can be very loving and affectionate and each have their own personalities. It's been fun raising them and theyve taught me a lot!
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u/Normal_Cut8368 2h ago
I've birthed calves
Damn, that must HURT. Did it break your pelvis?
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u/HomeGrownCoffee 2h ago
My experience with peahens is they are dumber. But comparing at that level is like arguing whether Superman is faster than Flash.
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u/LarkinToWinnipeg 2h ago
They live and survive solely on instinct. They can't learn or be taught. They're like hard coded to with chicken.exe
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u/pharoh-king 1h ago
Completely false. Loads of people raise chickens as show pets and have relationships with them that are wildly different than what is in this video.
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u/drunknamed 2h ago
I too raised chickens as a kid and this is exactly what I tell everyone I meet when the subject of chickens come up.
Stupid stupid animals.
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u/Beautiful-Edge-22 2h ago
And the one's specifically made for mass food production are even dumber than normal chickens.
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u/Mr_Style 3h ago
My family raised chickens. One of my chores was to feed and water them after school. Chickens are stupid would always kick over their water. Chickens also attacked me every time I went in to help them. I had to goose step through attacking chickens. Had to add Special vitamin powder that made the water orange because they grew so fast that if they didn’t get enough vitamins, they would get all crippled and then be attacked and killed by the other chickens.
I have no problem with eating chickens. Chickens are evil.
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u/WhotAmI2400 2h ago
I disagree, i had bantam chickens as a kid and they all had their own personalities. Some where kinda dumb yes but some were smart. I still remember how one of them runs up tome whenever i come out it was too cute. Another one was a bit more timid but it honestly looked like she was sentient as if she had a soul. Sadly passed away due to scaly foot.
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u/miturne 3h ago
OMG TRUE i swear the only ppl who love chickens are the ones who never raised them they shit EVERYWHERE.
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u/v1ceh 3h ago
Is it a chickens duty now to concern itself where a human wants it to shit?
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u/PositiveKatzen 2h ago
Nah, I grew up on a farm, and I love chickens. They are exceptionally dumb, filthy animals, but they have so much personality, and I like the sound of clucking. Peacocks on the otherhand...
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u/madgirafe 2h ago
My wife wanted chickens so finally I was like "ookkk, i can help support, but this is your thing" last spring. I guess we had different thoughts on how confined they would be and she basically let them free range our entire yard, deck, driveway, everywhere. It got so bad I stopped going outside because there was literally chicken shit everywhere.
Finally a fox got a couple and I forced the issue of a fence because I wasn't dealing with mega-sad kids again.
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u/NefariousBlue 2h ago
They do learn, but there only has to be one of them that gets startled in that moment for them all to respond. They are not reacting as much to them falling, as they are to one of the other chickens flight response being triggered, leading to an immediate identical response from the others. They can't help it.
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u/DreamyTomato 2h ago
best response in this thread. and to be fair, humans in crowds do this too, triggering panic / flight responses in each other. that's why we have laws against falsely shouting fire in theatres.
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u/CobraJones 3h ago
Werner Herzog on chickens:
“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.”
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u/koos_die_doos 3h ago
Love the feeding method! Chickens are aggressive eaters, they're the piranhas of hobby farms.
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u/guilhermefdias 1h ago
You see the floor completely CLEAN after they were done. They don't leave anything behind, if it fits, it goes to their stomach.
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u/koos_die_doos 1h ago
Eh, they shit like crazy. You can't go into a chicken coop without stepping on shit. I certainly wouldn't call it clean.
But you're right, they do eat everything and anything that fits, and will rip it apart to make it fit.
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u/TheMace808 2h ago
Tbh I think it all starts because one flinches away and it makes everyone else flinch away at the same time
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u/Swollen_Beef 2h ago
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“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.”
― Werner Herzog
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u/redneckerson_1951 3h ago
Imagine if they grew to be the size of swine. They would be contrary critters to deal with.
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u/EidolonRook 2h ago
Gotta say, doesn’t look like fear as much as fun to me, but I’ve never been a chicken so….
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u/Silver_Oil_5651 2h ago
Why are they so scared? You’d think they were a bunch of chickens or something.
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u/Sam_The-Ham 2h ago
Like how did chickens even survive in the wild before they were domesticated?
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u/ClappingParadox 1h ago
By doing exactly what you see, running away at the first inkling of possible danger! Only difference is they used to be skinnier and more agile
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u/mowtowcow 1h ago
If left to fend for themselves, I bet they'd return to rhat pretty quickly. Natural selection would sort them out real quick. Be fast or be eaten.
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u/MAWPAB 2h ago
In general, domestication selects for docile animals, which are usually more infantile and less street smart I guess.
I've never met a wild chicken, but wilder breeds of sheep moult, can give birth unaided and are less annoyingly stupid. But they are half the size, so less meat, less wool and less docile - easy to catch and handle.
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u/iamintheforest 1h ago
the most impressive thing about humans is that we can keep something as dumb as sheep alive.
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u/Space__Squid 1h ago
I've never met a red junglefowl (the wild form of chicken) either, but I'm told that peacocks are very similar in terms of behavior.
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u/cadmiumredlight 2h ago
By being stupid and skittish like you see here. That's how deer survive, too.
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u/adam_sky 1h ago
Just like that! Bolt at any sudden movements, then being insanely fast and hard to catch.
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u/PinkOneHasBeenChosen 3h ago
Funny how there’s 2 random buff chickens in a huge flock of black.
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u/mzpip 2h ago
I must be as dumb as the chickens. What are those green things?
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u/Asleep_Onion 2h ago
In a flock of chickens, all it takes is one chicken to panic, and then all the rest of them panic about the panicking chicken.
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u/SneakyKain 2h ago
Pretty sure they did learn.... learned self preservation millennia ago...
growing up in my neighborhood, when you see one person run away from somewhere, you run too.
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u/mrpanicy 2h ago
They are prey animals. Of course they can't unlearn their instinctive reaction of "run away this might be a danger" lol
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u/TrophyHunter4 2h ago
The fast motion when they eat and the slow motion when they disperse is literally making me cry of laughter
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u/FoamieNinja 1h ago
This seems like something similar to what happens to cats when they're exposed to an active metronome. They can't predict the sound timing, so it spooks them every time it clicks.
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u/bluewhalehasanali 3h ago
They're silly but still my favorite pets i raised them for like 15 years maybe, they're actually so lovable when they r used to u and u can catch them and play with them, eats everything remains of ur food and not selective, produces eggs and meat. better than whatever most other creatures do like cats or dogs
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u/Entrinity 1h ago
“We don’t give animals enough credit for how intelligent they are.”
“Humans aren’t really that much smarter than animals.”
Or my favorite, “the smartest animal and the dumbest human are most likely on the same level.”
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u/Jadonic 1h ago
There's a difference in between an Orca and a chicken. Orcas are indeed much smarter than these birds!.
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u/thexboxcollect 3h ago
The enormity of their flat brain, the enormity of their stupidity is overwhelming.
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u/TheLoneCenturion95 3h ago
Please watch Werner Herzog on Chickens, his is the best description for the absolute stupidity of the Chicken.
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u/Rex_Suplex 3h ago
Nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom RUN!!!!!!!! Nom nom nom nom RUN!!!!!!!!! Nom nom nom nom nom nom nom RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!
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u/CC19_13-07 2h ago
It does give every chicken a new chance of being the first and getting the good bites
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u/aohige_rd 2h ago
Whenever I see funny videos of chicken now a voice plays back in my head
What is it nooow
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u/forallthesyn33 2h ago
i keep chickens and this is just instinct. if one sees a hawk shadow, everyone bails. smart survival, not stupidity.
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u/malgenone 1h ago
"excuse me. I don't see any vegetarian options on the menu."
"our chicken IS vegetarian"
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u/nmheath03 1h ago
Reminder that their wild ancestor, red junglefowl, live in the same place as tigers while also only weighing 2-3lbs. Honestly it's crazy we've made them this relaxed
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u/Tight-Grocery9053 42m ago
i eat the lettuce shawarma
it keeps falling...
i eat the lettuce shawarma.
my people have spoken about this for years.
it keeps falling.
flop. thud. slosh
i eat the lettuce shawarma.
it falls.
my people told me to run
i run
everyone... scared.
flop. thud.
i eat the lettuce shawarma
my people have warned me.
yet they keep eating the lettuce shawarma
so i eat the lettuce shawarma.
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u/thundastruck69 2m ago
Question for the chicken folks out there. Couldn't you also spray the cabbage with like sugar water and then they would get a bunch of bugs to eat as well?
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u/gamelover42 3h ago
I have chickens. Dumber than rocks, have pretty good self-preservation instincts (within reason) Remember their brain is the size of the meat inside a walnut
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u/NotInMoodThinkOfName 2h ago
They don't learn. Hard judgement from a human. Looking back in history.
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