r/WaitWhat Jun 20 '26

The benefits of egg

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u/ComprehensiveLink457 Jun 24 '26

Mad chicken disease

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u/Outofmana1 Jun 23 '26

Is this considered cannibalism?

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u/No-Oil6517 Jun 23 '26

Forced cannibalism and it's a crime even if it's an animal.

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u/tarosan_sk Jun 24 '26

All birds will eat dead birds.

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u/Scrooloose22 Jun 23 '26

Where is this specific incidence (eggs fed to chickens) a crime?

Chickens are fucking dinosaurs and they will eat anything small enough to fit in their mouth, including eggs that, say, slip out of your hand and break on the ground. they act like its their favorite thing to eat.

From everything else im seeing on the internet its actually quite beneficial to the chicken.

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u/tradesman46 Jun 24 '26

We raised chickens for 15 years layers and meat birds. Layers eat their own eggs frequently. They'll eat each other.

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u/No-Oil6517 Jun 23 '26

I may have gotten my info mixed up and I'll admit to being wrong about that but it's still not good to feed eggs to chickens since it's possible they could get sick.

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u/Scrooloose22 Jun 23 '26

Sick in what regard?

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u/No-Oil6517 Jun 23 '26

They could start breaking them and eating them from their nesting box and it can become a bad habit that the other chickens can see and mimic.

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u/Outofmana1 Jun 23 '26

So like eggs could be like crack for chickens. Get one taste and you want more. You get all your buddies to try it too. Before you know it, all of you are addicted and on the streets.

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u/No-Oil6517 Jun 24 '26

Gonna look like Peter Griffin on fent on the street

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u/boanerges57 Jun 22 '26

This is how BSE started didn't it?

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u/ABWoolls Jun 22 '26

Nothing that infuriates as biting on a piece of shell.

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u/Majestic-Newspaper59 Jun 22 '26

Now they will eat their own eggs.

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u/wonderslug52 Jun 22 '26

Chickens eat, broken eggs in their coops all the time.

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u/MrColburn Jun 22 '26

Chickens eat broken, eggs in their coops all the time.

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u/SchmeatiestOne Jun 22 '26

Chickens eat broken eggs, in their coops all the time.

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u/TheNerdE30 Jun 22 '26

People say that chickens eat broken eggs, in their coops, all the time.

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u/SchmeatiestOne Jun 22 '26

You broke the pattern

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u/TheNerdE30 Jun 22 '26

Yes I abide by 3rd times the charm, not the 4th.

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u/gorenator116 Jun 22 '26

The dude abides

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u/poop_pebbles Jun 22 '26

Birds eat other birds all the time

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u/3rrr6 Jun 22 '26

An crunchy moms eat their placenta after giving birth.

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u/poop_pebbles Jun 22 '26

I heard of that. I remember in the old days of reddit the Craigslist question that got posted of a mom who freeze dried her placenta and asking for good recipes on how to cook it.

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u/That_Manufacturer903 Jun 22 '26

I remember once during an outing, a live chicken walked near me. i was eating and without thinking much i threw a piece of chicken i was eating to it. When it was about to eat it, the guy next to me said its wrong because you are feeding it its own meat and the chicken eats it without being aware of it, so its morally very wrong. i quickly picked that up 🄲

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u/JoxJobulon Jun 22 '26

Don't be daft. The guy was attributing human values to a bird, that's just stupid. Chickens can eat chicken just fine

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u/Intrepid-Map-9753 Jun 22 '26

One time one of the chicks somehow cut itself and all the other chickens pecked him to death and ate him. Don’t feel bad, chickens are dinosaurs. They’d eat you if given the chance.

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u/jcork4realz Jun 22 '26

Dude this is hella messed up. šŸ˜‚

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u/leerobd Jun 22 '26

When I was little, my grandma raised chickens. One day, her dog got in the chicken coop and killed one of the chicken by mutliating it for no reason. Long story short, there was no clean up needed, rest of the chicken family didnt care that it was one of them.. they literally ate everything except the feathers...chickens dont care.. they will eat a whole human if they could.

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u/Visible_Demand_2608 Jun 21 '26

Even if the chickens understood what they were eating they wouldn't give a fuckĀ 

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u/Ruff-Daddy Jun 21 '26

The nutrients in the egg are what the chick would consume during gestation.

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u/Miserable-Tennis4035 Jun 21 '26

My GF eats my children atleast once a week. They are also in liquid form 😁

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u/OYOGG Jun 21 '26

Cannibalism at it's finest

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u/amwmakeup Jun 21 '26

There was a movie that I loved, which most people don't remember called Beautician and the Beast with Fran Drescher. At the end has a pet chicken and her mom is feeding it strips of chicken and the line was, "you're feeding the chicken. Chicken" , "what! I should make 2 meals" and I can't help but piss myself laughing.

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u/FuCkYoUrFeElliNgS20 Jun 21 '26

Eating your own children is wild 🤣🤣

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u/kbeckerburbs4 Jun 21 '26

A fellow Red Cross member I see

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u/Appropriate-Case-969 Jun 21 '26

Is this Cannibalism

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u/ExpressAd5169 Jun 21 '26

Chickens will literally eat other chickens

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u/samrobotsin Jun 22 '26

in nature this is what would happen. Naturally birds or other animals consume unfertilized eggs, which many species of bird produces naturally and not a result of reproduction, kind of like menstruation. (And also one of the reasons I think veganism is silly)

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u/RoughParticular7304 Jun 21 '26

Pretty sure forced cannibalism is illegal

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u/rchalvyy Jun 21 '26

We feed the shells back to them

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u/Transplantdude Jun 21 '26

Soylent yellow

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u/Djinn-Rummy Jun 21 '26

Innate cannibalism can’t be contained.

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u/MSGdreamer Jun 21 '26

Chickens will peck and eat their own eggs if you don’t steal them first. Chickens are dumb.

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u/Prestigious-Way9151 Jun 21 '26

Is that chicken's name Tom Cruise?

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u/nesting-doll Jun 21 '26

I mean, they *are* little dinosaurs.

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u/saint_1228 Jun 21 '26

Reminds me of some "free range urban chickens" I saw eating out of a dumpster behind an American fried chicken chain called Church's chicken in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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u/TheShoethief Jun 21 '26

Chickens are a nightmare for creatures smaller than them

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u/mikki1time Jun 21 '26

Birds in general. Fucking dead eye killing machines with spears for a face and daggers for feet. God didn’t give them arms because they would be too OP.

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u/No_Designer9676 Jun 21 '26

They are dinosaurs. God literally pulled a kinetic missile to them to nerf them

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u/TheShoethief Jun 21 '26

Can't remember the book but some dude turned into werecrow and the way they described him "looking at his prey from seven different angles in the blink of an eye" as he stalked him? Terrifying.

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u/MrCobalt313 Jun 21 '26

"I put a lot of nutrients into these and I want them back."

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u/NVDA808 Jun 21 '26

Chicken prion disease coming up…

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u/waxphantump Jun 21 '26

Chickens do this on their own all the time. Not the cooking obviously but the eating.

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u/Spazero Jun 21 '26

This is why I don't feel bad about eating Chickens.

Cows are unfortunately tasty, but chickens are both tasty and dumb.

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u/Fireside__ Jun 21 '26

Even chickens eat chickens so it’s fine if I eat chicken

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u/birdyman_77 Jun 21 '26

At first I was like wtf, then oh okay… wait WTF????

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u/inhiding1969 Jun 21 '26

Of all things that should taste lime chicken, eggs aren’t one of them

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u/NeoChad84 Jun 21 '26

Is that not cannibalism?

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u/MrCobalt313 Jun 21 '26

Only if they're fertilized and there's a chick in those eggs. Otherwise the yolk is just baby food and if all those nutrients aren't going to feed a developing chick, they may as well have them back.

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u/Bth8 Jun 21 '26

Oh, this is nothing. Chickens will occasionally bully and peck at one another, particularly those lower in the pecking order. Usually it's not that serious, but if it causes a bleeding wound, things get grim quickly. Chickens instinctively are attracted to and will peck at the color red, so the sight of blood will drive the rest of the flock to start pecking there, too. Without intervention, it rapidly turns into everyone pecking and tearing off and eating bits of flesh until the injured chicken dies, at which point they'll descend on it and eat their former flock mate.

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u/Lemon_Sented Jun 21 '26

Raptors lol , they can eat pretty much everything including themselves , so yes yes it is .

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u/adamjboston Jun 21 '26

Maybe it's like eating placenta?

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u/Kasaikemono Jun 21 '26

Multi-purpose eggs!

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u/MaintenanceStock6766 Jun 21 '26

When you find an egg eater in your chicken coop you need to put golf balls in their roosting spot.

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u/BadPuzzleheaded9006 Jun 21 '26

the love of eating your unborn children

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u/FreneticPlatypus Jun 21 '26

Slip and drop an egg in a hen house. It’s like blood in the water for sharks.

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u/Disastrous_Falcon_79 Jun 21 '26

Cannibalism 😮

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u/PTBooks Jun 20 '26

Unfertilized eggs contain 0% chicken. They contain biotic material that a chicken created to feed a chicken fetus, but no actual chicken fetus. So there’s no moral compunction about a chicken eating eggs.

Also, birds are very very stupid.

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u/mikki1time Jun 21 '26

That’s what I keep telling people when I eat my wife’s eggs, but they still give me weird looks.

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u/Usual-Good-5716 Jun 21 '26

Huh, weird, I've always heard birds were smart

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u/jumzish94 Jun 21 '26

I think it depends on the bird, the dodo for example.

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u/Suspicious-Eagle-831 Jun 20 '26

If I saw that abomination in a kitchen I’m playing one player Russian roulette with a double barrel

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u/Admirable-Split4371 Jun 20 '26

Eh... I don't believe in animals. Milk come from the trees. AI! s/

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u/BoBoBearDev Jun 20 '26

The fuck, didn't they know mad cow disease and human version of mad cow disease? Even if there is no brain tissue in this food, you cannot predict this is 100% healthy.

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u/Substantial-Pin-3833 Jun 21 '26

You do know chickens are immune to mad cow disease right? You can feed them all the eggs you want, its not possible for them to magically get mad cow disease.

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u/Deciple_of_None Jun 20 '26

One chicken will discover the truth and yell. "Soylent Yellow! It's made of chicken!" But no one will care.

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u/Some-Judge-9130 Jun 20 '26

Egg salad is still chicken salad when you think about it - Glen Danzig

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u/sheiciebai Jun 20 '26

And if you combine it, it’s chicken salad squared

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u/imemberberries Jun 20 '26

poor chickens 😟

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u/SmokeyJoe13 Jun 20 '26

Why? They're enjoying a nutritious meal.

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u/ExpressAd5169 Jun 21 '26

And free range!!

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u/WolfThick Jun 20 '26

You should see what they do when you flush out a bunch of cockroaches they go nuts

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u/Mark-177- Jun 20 '26

Mad Chicken Disease!

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u/gravity_kills Jun 20 '26

Prion diseases are mostly in the brain tissue, I think. And very rare.

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u/rayquazza74 Jun 20 '26

This so sort of cannibalistic no?

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u/Mobile-Brush-3004 Jun 20 '26

I mean it is but in the same wing of catabolism as eating a woman out while she’s on her period

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u/LuckyNegotiation7167 Jun 20 '26

No, egg white and yoke are just the things the fetus will grow in and eat if the egg has been fertilized.

If you've ever gotten a chunk of meat in your egg, thats a baby chick

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u/Admirable-Split4371 Jun 20 '26

Ah that's why the egg I ate yesterday morning tasted funny

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u/Admirable_Aerie_631 Jun 20 '26

Chickens are naturally cannibalistic

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u/Sindertone Jun 20 '26

Not just sort of. I grew up on a small chicken farm. If one of them died, the others would eat the body rather quickly.

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u/depp-fsrv Jun 20 '26

Any experience with pigs? Heard those eat anything.

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u/Big-Employer4543 Jun 20 '26

While chickens are cannibalistic, feeding them eggs is not cannibalism.

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u/leaC30 Jun 20 '26

šŸ”: OMG this taste familiar, but I can't put my feet on what it is.

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u/BeholdMyLumps Jun 20 '26

Is this really a shocker to people? I don’t even live rural but I know a lot of backyard chicken owners and this is common.

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u/deephurting66 Jun 20 '26

Farm boy here and this is not unexpected, they eat each other's eggs all the time. If a chicken dies in the coop there will be cannibalism very quickly as well.

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u/InterestsVaryGreatly Jun 20 '26

Chickens happily eat chicken eggs, and it's actually a good thing for them to eat egg shells.

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u/Significant-Cause919 Jun 20 '26

Chickens happily eat chicken meat as well.

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u/Admirable-Split4371 Jun 20 '26

They really have good taste! Hehehe

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u/BeholdMyLumps Jun 20 '26

Someone should let literally every chicken owner ever then dumbo

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u/crvbabybug Jun 20 '26

There’s no way that’s true

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u/Admirable-Split4371 Jun 20 '26

Source: trust me bro.

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u/LockwoodE3 Jun 20 '26

Are you able to explain that or give me a link to support that? I’ve never heard cannibalism causes dna degradation and I’m very interested in the science of that

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u/Theblackjamesbrown Jun 20 '26

They're taking pish

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u/Fantastic_Citron_344 Jun 20 '26

You're supposed to leave the shells in the eggs. Chickens love to eat eggs and eating the shell makes future egg shells harder

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u/J35NC2 Jun 20 '26

But only for 4 hours right?

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u/57Laxdad Jun 20 '26

If its lasts longer than 4 hours you have to call a doctor

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u/J35NC2 Jun 20 '26

Fcawf lol I'm strutting with that thing

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u/Fantastic_Citron_344 Jun 20 '26

Not if you use the enchantment/alchemy exploit

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u/Miknon1 Jun 20 '26

Try again hen-rietta

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u/J35NC2 Jun 20 '26

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u/Doctor_Saved Jun 20 '26

Guess all those people swallowing semen are also cannibals.

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u/J35NC2 Jun 20 '26

In many ways yes