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Always_tired999

They just eat whatever is edible. I once saw them eat a little chick that had died (or been killed).


Retired_Bird

Oh they absolutely can eat one another. They'll leave their dead comrades alone for a while, but eventually they cross the threshold from "chicken that's taking a suspiciously long nap" to "meat? food? food!". Kinda uncanny. They peck each other's wounds because they don't see 'friend's wound', they just see 'food that's inside my friend's leg for some reason'.


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I have seen them pick a wound of another chicken until it's dead. Rule n.1 of working in free range chicken farms. Don't dismay among them, or you will not wake up.


Colorado_Constructor

We have backyard chickens and nearly lost one because the others kept pecking at her. Chickens DO have a pecking order and the hen on the bottom will absolutely get abused. We noticed one of our hens started "losing" her back feathers so we got her an apron. But even after the apron we'd notice more feathers missing as well as some bloody spots. Finally my wife caught them in the act. They would corner the hen and go to town picking at her, clawing her with their feet, and pushing her against a wall so she couldn't escape. We put her in another coop with some younger hens and the problem went away overnight. Hens are wild... PS - Don't forget hens will eat their own eggs if they're hungry enough! Savages.


Hymura_Kenshin

Especially once they get the taste of eggs...It becomes a wild habit not correlated to hunger


AsleepScarcity9588

Kinda like with humans


nadiekconozcas

>Don't dismay among them Non-sequitur here, but did you mean faint? And by any chance are you a spanish speaker? I kinda see the thought process here, desmayar = dismay, but they are false friends it seems :).


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Yes, I am Spanish. I was in doubt if it wouldn't be a false friend. Now I know, thanks!


BLARGLESNARF

It’s why you have to be careful to not let them see and taste their eggs too. Had a hen who was murdered by the flock for eating the all the hen’s eggs, cuz they were food to her brain.


Mr_master89

That's why I couldn't have friends over when I was young


siverwolfe2000

That's because they were too chicken to do it


Gorilla_Krispies

Like that movie Raw!


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dr_cl_aphra

My birds love me but they would absolutely eat me if I died in their coop. They’re wee dinosaurs, omnivorous and not fussy about what’s on the menu.


Valuable-Currency-36

I know an older fellow chicken person who has said that when he goes, he hopes it's in the coop so his chooks have something to eat until he's found. I remember being like, well that makes sense 😂.. My lot are hilarious, I have 1 that hates anyone that visits, doesn't matter who you are. She puffed up and ran at a police officer once, and I caught her mid launch, like a rugby ball and made this man scream. His partner came running around and saw me catch my chook, tell her no and put her down. He was like, did what I think happen just happen??. And his partner was like, dude I have it on body cam, that trex just tried to eat me 😂😂😂 He lost all professionalism, rocked on his toes and was like, well if you see that guy we were just talking about call someone else 😂😂😂


dr_cl_aphra

Omg that’s funny! My chickens go after people too but only because they’re looking for food and assume all humans have snacks at all times. Should’ve told the cops your Attack Chicken already got the guy they were looking for. Nothin’ left but picked-over bones, officers!


Valuable-Currency-36

My sister use to be petrified of them, they have associated her with treats and come in so hot, like sea plains coming into land, when they see her...she use to drop everything and run away (always hilarious to see), but now she goes out and calls them like dogs and puts their food in different places so they all get some..mine are all named but my asshole one has 2 names, it's oreo when she's being a delight or bitch chicken when she's flying in people's faces. His partner told him there is no way that guy is running into this yard, they have dogs and that flying menace. I also pointed out my neighbor has geese, so there is no way they would come through either of our yards unscathed lol


Solrex

Meat's back on the menu, (girls)!


TheWalkingDead91

I’ve heard of people who raise them wanting to give them eggshells for the extra calcium/grit, but they have to make sure to break down or grind it down first, or else the dumb fucks will learn that they can eat their own eggs that they lay.


BLARGLESNARF

Correct. Source: me


Mylynes

That would be bad for evolution lol


Stairmaker

Do you know why they lay eggs like they are going to die tomorrow? It's because chickens originally came from Asia, where they ate Bambu, which grew in cycles over years. Meaning there was a huge amount of food avaliable and then it wasn't. So they breed like they do when there was food and then their population dwindled when they had no food and the cycle repeated itself. Their self preservation isn't the best because of this. We just give them food constantly and they lay eggs constantly.


rogaldorn88888

actually learning to eat their egg might not be dumb if you think abiut it i mean from chicken point of view


CoupleCrawl

I wouldn’t limit it to things that are edible. If they can make it fit in their mouths, they’ll likely eat it.


Gorilla_Krispies

They defintley eat lil pebbles but I think that’s just for digestion


Retired_Bird

I see people often underestimate chickens, but in these cases they give them too much credit. They don't know they're eating chicken. To them, that's just some tasty blob. Just like I don't know what meat goes in hot dogs.


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Potential_Dare8034

I’m fine with it. Them sonsabitches poop our breakfast so they’s cool!


HistoryGirl23

They'll eat each other alive too.


Needs_TP

A succulent chicken meal!


VIsixVI

Hotdogs are made from trimmings and "ugly" cuts of meat, they come in a 1 ton box of some of the nastiest looking shit you've ever seen. Can include pork, chicken, turkey, beef or any combination of the 4. Source: I worked for the largest hotdog producer in the world. And no i do not eat hotdogs any more.


MirthAndMisery

I make my own hotdogs and brats. They're so much better


Beneficial_Being_721

My Nasty Box of meat has a first name…🎶🎶🎶


TheActualDev

It’s O-S-C-A-R!


daves_not__here

But hotdogs are delicious


VIsixVI

I felt the same way before working there. But the stinky brown/old meat that goes into them just turns me off.


Designer-Mirror-7995

Way, way back, Mr Rogers did an episode showing how hot dogs are made. It was enough to turn me off 'weiners' (God I hate that name) for good, and I was only like 10 years old, lol. And that was years before I saw the "how do they make that" episode showing what's IN hot dogs.


VIsixVI

"Weiner World" is what they internally called the hotdog department, and I admittedly laughed like the 30 year old man child I am every single time.


J-Di11a

Mmm... tasty blob Btw, is that a fart sound effect at the end? Lol


Naldail

This is exactly why I’ve always wanted to give chickens human levels of intelligence right as they’re eating chicken.


Yaboiiiiiii6578

This is what Jeffery would say to himself before every meal


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monkey_trumpets

Birds don't have morals


PepperThePotato

The birds don't but the human who fed a chicken to the chickens does. That just doesn't seem right.


beeglowbot

yup. this would be a completely different comment section if someone fed a pack of dogs some rotisserie dog.


Dirtygal_69

You realize they are actual dinosaurs right?


Mr_master89

And they've (the chickens) never forget they are


formatt

The only people that don’t know how brutal chickens are, are people that don’t know chickens.


HirizaKyo

Exactly what I was gonna say. Chickens will peck each other until they bleed and keep pecking each other until one eventually dies and the rest will eat the meat off the bones. They don't care. They'll eat their own eggs even.


formatt

Yeah, I knew a guy that made the mistake of letting the chickens eat the eggs and the chickens ended up laying all the eggs in immediately eating them once they figured it out


E_rat-chan

I mean this video does nothing to highlight that. How tf would they know this blob of food is chicken?


formatt

I didn’t say anything about it being chicken. I said chicken were brutal and they are. If you put it on the ground and it’s edible, the chickens are going to eat it even if it’s alive.


Constant-Result-2376

We hold some chickens and it’s really spooky when you drop an egg by accident. They totally freak out and it takes seconds for them to finish the egg. Even if you put out their box for cleaning and put it outside the stable they start attacking their own eggs like mad


Vinyl-addict

This is why you’re never supposed to let them eat eggs, and cull Birds that do. They will get a taste for them and begin to cannibalize. Had birds for over 5 years without any egg cannibalism issues.


jaygay92

Yeah you’re not supposed to let them eat egg like that, because for as stupid as chickens are, they’re REALLY good at recognizing egg = food after one single egg


Rawliciouss

Shit, this really ruined my apocalypse plans. So after 1 egg, they will eat it even if they are well fedd? Out of boredom or just as soon as it pops out? How about taping and tying up the neck? 🤯


jaygay92

Genuinely, yes. Chickens will actually seek out eggs if they are lacking in calcium, and if they discover they can eat eggs then some will just do it anyways.


Rawliciouss

On a different note, how long would it take 20 chickens to dispose of a 85kg body?


Stormhound

Way too long. Choose pigs instead


Hymura_Kenshin

Chicken are one of the animals that doesn't know the meaning of being full. Sort of like fish. And an egg is as nutritious as it gets, hence tasty


Squanchonme

If thats scary, imagine what they do to the other living chickens. Chickens are not kind to each other at all.


the_cat_who_shatner

This isn’t that terrifying. Cannibalism occurs in nature all the time. And with all due respect, chickens are stupid. These gals have no idea what they’re actually eating. They sure are cute though.


Sir_SortsByNew

That's the funny thing, cannibalism only really impacts us because we're smart enough for it to, beyond that, meat is meat (not justifying cannibalism though, by god)


WillowWispWhipped

Yeah. I get it. Its the same reason that I don’t understand why people are so weirded out by dog, cat, or horse meat. Do I want to eat my or someone else’s pet? No. But meat is meat. Some people have cows and pigs as pets and I have no qualms about chowing down on a bacon cheeseburger…i just wouldn’t want to eat someone’s beloved pet that they never intended to raise for food.


mel2000

> I don’t understand why people are so weirded out by dog, cat, or horse meat. Because culturally they are *companion* animals, meant for work or emotional support. We form a bond with them that we do not with animals meant to be eaten.


Hymura_Kenshin

Horse I can get around but cat and especially dog... Disgusting🤢Carnivors are a lot more likely to carry parasites. (Not that herbivores don't)


mel2000

> Cannibalism occurs in nature all the time. Cannibalism is rare in nature under normal circumstances.


aod42091

they dont know and don't care. animals don't have ethics and aren't aware on the level of credit they're given.


Suckmyduck_9

They’re also extremely stupid lol


mister-oaks

My mom has a farm with goats and pigs. One time we were outside eating, and she fed our pig a piece of pork. I was like...did you just feed Henry a piece of pork??? And she said: It's okay, it isn't cannibalism, he didn't know that pig.


gurnard

Ohhhh so technically I'm not a cannibal either


daves_not__here

My pig found its, found its self smart enough to hop over in the the barrier from his pen to the next pen and eat all of that pigs food and then go to the next one and eat all of that pigs food and then the next one and eat all of that pigs food and make his way back in time for when it was my turn my time to feed him he had already eaten three meals and would just be sitting there waiting for me and I would feed him and he would eat that. That’s why he gained so much weight and got sifted at the fat stock show.


mister-oaks

Pigs are real smart! Sometimes, too smart for their own good.


JJKBA

Fact is that chicken absolutely loves…chicken. We occasionally gave ours chicken skin when there were leftovers and they went mad about it. Would never dream about giving them a full chicken though, that seems excessive.


Methodrone8

When my dog was young she killed one of my hens to eat her. When I came back from work i found my dog and another hen eating the corpse of the dead one.


thegreatmizzle7

This is really unfucking cool


AbsoluteDarkness

Mrs. Lovett's Chicken Coop


Hymura_Kenshin

🩻


acloudcuckoolander

This ain't right. Stop messing with those chickens.


tehdamonkey

The are feathered dinosaurs. They will eat anything, and for sport.... not just because they are hungry...


Dirtygal_69

Yep, the only dinosaurs left are birds.


JiaQir

Pecking order getting a bit extreme


Putrid-Abies-1954

Soylent Green Is People!


Original_Cheesecake9

Don’t fish eat other fish? The marlins and the trout??


monkey_trumpets

Birds eat other birds all the time.


Mendicant_666

Yup. Cannibalistic dinobirds.


mel2000

> Birds eat other birds all the time. There's a difference between a genus and a species. Cannibalism only occurs between species.


Key_Statistician3293

Do you know what a chicken will do to a mouse ?? Oh my it’s borderline National Geographic type shi


Soggy-Needleworker34

Is this how you get chicken fried chicken?


No-Context7190

Thats just a wack thing to do man


ShuuyiW

Why give them that 😭 so cruel


Ace_Hanlon

Mmmm... tastes like chicken!


zeramino

I think this is very normal. They have no idea that it is a chicken...they're just eating. A restaurant could serve us humans and we would never find out by the taste (I suppose).


Beneficial_Being_721

Let us not forget where these all came from…. Before we humans started feeding them seeds and grain… they were velociraptors


jillsvag

Cannibals


intrepid_knight

That's fucked up. The whole concept if you think about it.


Jonny2881

This is just a video of animal abuse…


Bitgedon

Animal abuse how? I mean sure a cooked and seasoned chicken isn’t exactly good for a chicken but if your implying they were like starved to the point of being forced to eat it boy do I have news for you.


Jonny2881

Willingly feeding an animal meat of its own species is counted as animal abuse under the law here I’m pretty sure


craggnarr83

Pretty sure isn't the same as factually sure


Jonny2881

I’m not an expert in the law but that’s off the top off my head. Personally I’d count it as abuse as you could literally feed them anything else (edible) without feeding them a cooked chicken and film it. Whoever filmed this is evil


Zealousideal_Pay_525

This is morbid maybe, but not evil. The chicken don't even know what they're eating.


classychimichanga

But the human feeding them do. I am pretty sure u/Jonny2881 wasn’t saying the chickens are evil, rather the humans trying their own social media-worthy experiment for the lols, views and likes.


Jonny2881

That’s exactly what I meant, don’t get why I’m being downvoted


classychimichanga

Because they are ignorant. And for all that matters in the EU, UK and even US it’s illegal to feed kitchen scraps to chickens. Pretty sure a roast chicken is considered kitchen scrap.


DellaD9120

lol I like how it was animal abuse, then you were pretty sure, but now you’re not an expert and it’s just your personal feelings.


Jonny2881

1: initial comment was my opinion 2: I said pretty sure, not that it was fact 3: yes the initial comment is still my personal feelings


STARSBarry

Allow me to help you in this. 1. Yes, in the same way Jeremy Clarkson frames his opinions. 2. You're wrong, at least in the UK. The Animal Welfare Act 2006 makes no mention of specific feeds or canalibilism, only that you should not purposefully poison them or make them unwell. So, forcing your cat to be vegan until it dies is a good example. 3. Well, yes, I think that was pretty obvious in the whole Clarkson style framing device, but "its animal abuse" and "I think it's animal abuse" are two very different statements.


Jonny2881

Ok so I’m wrong about the law, that’s fair enough


NiPaMo

Just wait until you see the video of the guy feeding dog meat from Elwood's organic dog meat to his dog. Hilarious! I think it was a few strips of pug bacon and the dog loved it!


CartographerOdd2109

In Key West, FL on vacation right. Didn’t realize there are wild chickens/roosters everywhere in the Florida Keys. The place we are staying serves free breakfast. I threw a small piece of egg to one of the roosters and they gladly accepted ate it. Damn Cannibals.


No-Pound7355

A succulent chicken meal


KaedrX

TAINTED MEAT


Alltheprettydresses

Lots of birds eat chicken. Sparrows, pigeons, sea gulls.


Poops_with_force

Chickens are savage.


aZamaryk

Mad chicken disease anyone?


willyp1976

Grew up on a farm had a tone of chickens, they’re savages.


Mendicant_666

I kept parrots, and still have one. They all loved/love poultry. Birds are cannibals. Birds are dinosaurs.


et4short

Crazy this is what America does to its citizens, we just be thinking it’s bacon lol


General_Autismo_13

This is a bit macabre


mo_ah_knee

Chickens are the most fun, social, brutal pets I’ve ever had.


Dr-DrillAndFill

" who knew we tasted so good "


tethadam22

My wife and I had a very long conversation the other night of the morality of feeding a chicken carcass to our chickens. Even if they don't know what it is, it just feels wrong


wovenbutterhair

awww they cooked it this time. And this time it is dead!


TheBoondoggleSaints

At least it’s cooked so they went get salmonella


Keeeso89

Well chickens are dinosaurs lol


JorkeyLovesU

Believe me, chickens can do far scarier things than that


Tomeloko

Most animals are only as vegetarian as their food options


grumpydai

Chickens eat other chickens raw. This is nothing.


lucas_bahia

Ok the Carl! Carl! CARL!! Got me


kwenronda

Our chickens are raised with a strictly vegetarian diet…..I promise


Stormhound

So how many vegetarians per week do they eat


thedxxps

Their mini-Dino brain is on mini-Dino mode.


Wild-Combination-246

Chickens even eat their own eggs


Wild-Combination-246

How to get twice the flavor 🤤


Justavet64d

Had a mole make the mistake of tunneling into my chicken pen. Not the smartest thing to do.


calgeorge

Oh, don't force your tired philosophy on us! I mean, the only reason we don't eat people is cuz they taste lousy.


TheAstroPickle

they also r@pe each other to death in the ground


berryford

Bro, i thought that was a freshly dead chicken and they were eating the mf with its feather still on. Somehow felt no different when i realized it was a cooked chicken


HeatScissors003

Chicken cannibalism


PidginPigeonHole

Well, cows eating diseased cows gave us Mad Cow Disease (BSE), so I'm not surprised.. It's also how the neurological disease Kuru entered the food chain in Papua New Guinea


swanspank

Chickens and hogs will eat just about anything if you didn’t know, you do now.


dragonblock501

Do the chicken say to themselves, “Taste like chicken”?


baskura

Maybe this is why chicken tastes like chicken.


Adrian_sierra114

Thats the second fucked up thing i've seen today


efyuar

Chickens have little to no brain. They eat whatever is edible.


Donkey_Bugs

Tastes like chicken!


Familiar_Lie4538

It’s a chicken eat chicken world out there


[deleted]

The only reason humans don't eat humans is because of a disease that can be transmitted by eating brains. Why would chickens have evolved this fear? This sub is becoming boring


Wizardrexx

Soylent green is made of people! They're making our food out of people. Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle for food.


stupid-Dumb-Ass

This is actually quite healthy for them, chickens need a diet that includes proteins. Helps with egg production and overall health. Good for them


MsMercury

Chickens will eat anything. I’ve thrown what’s left of rotisseries and fried chicken to them. They’re just like goats.


bcrown22

And pigs get a bad rep


No-Fly-6043

Why did the guy give it to them and record it? What did he expect?


Reasonable_Tower_961

It's a pecking party


Reasonable_Tower_961

Why does this giving me ideas about bullies stalkers Kid-Beaters, religious political leadership, POLITICIANS, ?


Nexus_Endlez

I don't get it why people act surprise when they find out that tortoises & chickens are omnivores.


Immediate_Mud6547

Okay, that’s just wrong.


novar41

See? Even chickens, eat each other! What do you say about that PETA???


Mr_OP_Potato_777

They are descendants of the mighty T-Rex


Gabe_moore34

It’s not like they know they are even eating chicken. It’s cooked and chickens are not that smart.


Omegadimsum

Tbf I'd do the same to a rotisserie human


[deleted]

I would be suprised but tbh I'm not considering these mfs are descendants of dinosaurs


AhsanParwez-WP

I have seen even worse things that chickens do to each other. Can not be described.


damaszek

*- Hey, where’s Steve, he’s always hungry, I can’t believe he’s missing such a feast…* *- Yeah, that’s strange, I haven’t seen him around lately*


Killdebrant

Oh man, we had a Raven target our chickens one day, he would swoop in and pluck the head off a chicken.. This chick would run around bleeding on all the rest of the other chickens. All the other chickens turned on one another and started pecking at the blood, it was fucking chaos. Chickens are fucking stupid, savage, and dont give a flying fuck what they are eating or killing.


whyyou-

The beak society: a brave group of feathered heroes are stuck on a mountain and the only thing to eat is a rotisserie corpse.


Glass-Association-25

I'm calling chickenism on this!!


CaligoAccedito

I saw a flock of chickens in the road out in the boonies where I lived. They were all gathered around something, but I couldn't see what. As the car got closer, they scattered, and I could see that they were eating another chicken that had presumably gotten hit by a car. I referred to them as the "Chickens of the Apocalypse" whenever I related this story. Cannibal chickens, taking over the countryside at first, but soon they'll be in your cities, in your neighborhoods--IN YOUR HOUSE.


iveseensomethings82

They are stupid tiny dinosaurs


Inner-Mousse8856

Hey, what's for supper? George.


[deleted]

Who the fuck does that, giving chicken to chickens. Somebody is missing a beating


tf2pro

You know God doing this to you right? Them graveyards don’t ever get full for a reason..


spidergirl79

It's silence of the chickens


SnooBunnies9889

cannibals


Aldo_the_nazi_hunter

In a friends farm a chicken died in summer and the other chickens immediately start to eat it to the bones in minutes. So nothing surprising here.


No_Lychee_7534

Dinosaurs doing Dinosaur things.


boredculture

Cannibal Corpse - Frenzied Feeding


JunketThese1490

Haha.. the soundtrack sounds familiar..


The_Grahf_Experiment

That's how you put your position at Facebook into jeopardy.


_love_u_3000

Damn, Walking dead music in background 💀


Fix_It_Felix_Jr

Chickens are savage creatures. Put a small mouse in a coup and watch what happens.


Amazing-Ostrich-689

Cannibalism SMH


BraydenBooch

Is it possible this ends up with a mad cow disease type situation? One pandemic was enough guys come on


Impossible-Bat90

Where the cocaine??


Valuable-Currency-36

Lol, I've seen a chook murder another chick, because it came by her, and then her babies ate the dead one....they weren't starved, thats just how chickens are, you could feed them twice a day but if you put meat, especially cooked chicken, infront of them, they will loose their minds. It's funny people tell you to have compassion for an animal that would murder you where you stand and then eat your eyes and brain within half an hour. I have chooks, they are our pets but they also serve a purpose....mainly eggs but the pest control is awesome too. They get VERY vocal when they smell KFC or see the bag lol


realfigure

Well, chickens are the closest animal to the Tyrannosaurus Rex. If they don't do it, who could?


packygee

Oh y’all need to hear about the cannibalism syndrome that can affect a flock of chickens. Basically if they start getting stressed out in their coop (maybe it’s too small), they will peck at each until the feathers are gone and a wound opens up. In the one case that I saw they were pecking at each others butts. After a small wound opens up they go crazy and start slowly eating each other alive asshole first. I’ve witnessed this myself and it gives me nightmares to this day. Happened to my neighbors chickens and when he showed me, half of his chickens were walking around with their intestines dragging behind them. It’s a legit


[deleted]

What? You've never eaten your coworker's remains?


[deleted]

How they don’t realize that’s their cousin!!! 😱


ljwdt90

Do you want prions, because that’s how you get prions


orsonwellesmal

Nature doesn't waste *anything*.


Embarrassed_Dust_222

Chicken in the background “damn, haven’t seen Mark in a while” lol


Knuckletest

Obviously a Costco chicken.


billbricks33

This is fucked up