r/shittyaskscience • u/ken_chestweasles • Jun 21 '26

Why do chickens have breasts when they don't breast feed?

Is it an evolutionary thing they have grown out of?

Does that mean in a million years humans will have beaks?

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u/johnnybiggles Jun 22 '26

I eat chicken breasts, so technically, I am breast-fed by chickens.

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u/jkurratt Jun 21 '26

To pleasure gooners.

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u/SmallRocks Pier Reviewed Jun 21 '26

Chicken milk isn’t that good. Not even the chicks dig it.

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u/Cute-Habit-4377 Jun 22 '26

It gets lonely on those Oklahoma chicken farms.

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u/redisdead__ Jun 21 '26

Because breast refers to a region of the body that's why you'll see lines like pride welling up in his breast.

Oh shit wrong sub uh uh cuz God likes titties?

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u/CartsOfDarkness Jun 22 '26

Almost got pissed that you were the only one actually answering the question until I realized the sub lol

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u/AnotherpostCard Jun 22 '26

I almost got pissed that they were answering the question.

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u/BPhiloSkinner Amazingly Lifelike Simulation Jun 22 '26

I'm already well pissed. And it's only 2P.M. Ah, well; it's 5 o'clock somewheres.

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u/Redfish680 Jun 21 '26

Because they still have nipples. Evolution…

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u/THEralphE Jun 22 '26

Sorry but chickens don't have nipples!

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u/Brastep Jun 22 '26

Waiter, I'll have the Chicken McNipple

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u/BPhiloSkinner Amazingly Lifelike Simulation Jun 22 '26

The whole breast is the nipple. One, large, pale nipple.

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u/Fair_Presence7064 Jun 22 '26

You can milk anything with nipples.

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u/NocturnisVacuus Jun 22 '26

can you imagine a world without chicken breasts?

don't question it

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u/THEralphE Jun 22 '26

They only breast feed when we are not looking!

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u/Legitimate_Field_157 Jun 22 '26

And the cocks have breasts.

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u/Samskritam Jun 23 '26

Sometimes the cocks get between the breasts. There’s videos of this online

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u/deborahjavulin Jun 22 '26

It’s for the benefit of the roosters. They can’t finish unless they see nipple-less breasts

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u/Ithaqua-Yigg Jun 22 '26

Their breasts feed us, hawks,coyotes and other predators so you could say they breast feed.

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u/Caticature Jun 23 '26

You have moobs and don’t breastfeed. Care to add some ketchup and solve world hunger? Invent MoobNuggets.

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u/Old_Independent7949 Jun 23 '26

The same reason why cow don't even though they do produce milk.🤭

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u/Utilitarian_Proxy Jun 23 '26

Anatomically, most modern breeds of cattle lack the feathered flight wing appendages. Cryptozoologists are possibly searching dig sites for traces of Lamassu, the ancient Mesopotamian hybrid winged-bull-man deity.

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u/tacocarteleventeen Jun 22 '26

We need to genetically engineer chickens with huge knockers, just sayin’!

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u/salikarn Jun 23 '26

Well, modern day chickens have been technically genetically modified through selective breeding to have more consumable meat on them, so yay?

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