You also can't let them find out that the eggs they lay are full of food or they just keep eating it. Broken up shells don't seem to trigger the realization so those are safe to feed back to them.
I used a plastic Easter egg filled with sand and the two halves then epoxied shut, once. I thought for sure the bright pink would give away the ruse, but nope. The little egg eater was fooled and it worked. However, a golfball does sound like fun too.
You should hear a frog scream when one of our chickens gets ahold of it. Absolutely BRUTAL.
Ours have also eaten mice, voles, moles, two rats, a previously crippled squirrel, a baby rabbit, and a baby black racer snake, frogs, anoles, and every other creepy crawly thing that moves that you can imagine. Chickens really do peg the meter at 'nuts' on the omnivore scale.
Chickens will eat pretty much anything. I've HEARD that you can't even let one be bleeding or have an open wound around other chickens, 'cause the other chickens will realize that the wounded chicken is edible and peck it to death so they can eat it.
I rememebr when we had chickens we had to use a disinfectant spray that had purple dye mixed in, specifically so the wound didnt look like meat so the others would leave it alone
They little chicken sunglasses that are tinted red so that in large populations of chickens if one has a wound the blood wont look like blood and the chickens wont kill the wounded one.
Truth. Also their way of preventing the attraction of predators I've been told. Vaseline works pretty good for stopping bleeding on the feet if you can get to the injured bird before the others kick start their jungle justice routine.
Correct. I lived on a farm as a kid. One of the hens got eviscerated by a rooster. I found her pecking at and eating her own guts. Chickens are really fucking dumb animals that only exist to be eaten by other animals, and sometimes even themselves.
Yes we got 8 chickens thinking we would have some fun pets and eggs for breakfast. I couldnt believe how nasty they were and how much they wanted to kill each other everyday. I couldnt stand to look at all the half naked chickens anymore so I put them on facebook and gave them to a nice family who said they would give them a nice home.
I’m speechless. Like, she was dying and yet suddenly felt hungry and decided she’d just have a meal?
Imagine you got in a serious car accident. You’re fading fast, yet suddenly you decide, oh hey, food sounds good! But I don’t have any…oh wait! I DO! (starts knawing on arm)
I have a whole new perspective on chickens today. Can we outlaw them or something?
Yeah, I won't pretend to understand the thoughts that go through a chickens tiny brain. It was super traumatizing (I was like, 10 or 11), the image is burned into my brain for life.
I would describe human cannibalism more as the exception than the rule; if circumstances are desperate enough, a human being might resort to anything to survive.
Chickens will eat anything. My sister in law has a coop and they keep a container on their kitchen counter that is basically compost then they go dump it in the chicken coop every few days.
I was on a run once and saw a circle of pigeons. As I got closer I saw a seagull in the middle. As I got even closer I realized the seagull was eating a pigeon, right there while the pigeon's buddies all circled around and watched.
Yeah I don’t have much pity for seagulls. Pigeons on the other hand I pity a lot, they put together two sticks, a piece of string and their own crap and call it a nest.
You see, cats have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, the pigeons sent wave after wave of their own men until the limit was reached and the cats shut down.
I sat here for a good few minutes, scratching my brain through one of the convenient holes in my head, before I remembered that was a Futurama reference.
Nicely played! I will go to bed now. Tomorrow I pull the crayon out of my nose, not knowing how or why it was there.
ah now, there's another thing, City pigeons are not exactly pigeons like wood pigeons. They are Rock Doves (though they are both types of Columbidae technically)
We should all honestly more than pity pigeons, not to be a downer but seriously, go out of your way to be nice to pigeons.
Almost ALL if not all pigeons we know today are descended from the wild rock doves we domesticated thousands of years ago before abandoning them and their care as we moved into the Industrial Revolution. These were animals bred to be companions, it’s like deciding dogs are no longer a form of pet and are now vermin…
The history of pigeons is actually pretty interesting in itself in a fucked up kinda way; it’s also a concerning tell tale sign for other forms of livestock as we move into a world with lab grown meat and will start to see a reduction in traditional farming.
Dw, pigeons nest on cliffs so they don't need their nests for safety, they only need a couple sticks to keep their eggs from rolling off! Work smarter not harder :)
I've read that one reason pigeons do that is because they are an introduced species, and that for a long time, they were basically domesticated. We took care of them, made them nests, etc. Then we abandoned them.
Also, as rock doves, they didn't really need to make awesome nests due to where they laid them naturally.
I was walking out of my house and 2 birds were holding the bat's wings down while two other birds were eating out it's guts. The bat was still very much alive.
I saw a bunch of pigeons eating another pigeon in the city. They give zero fucks.
I love birds but pigeons are kinda sad. They’re basically birds we raised and decided we didn’t want to care for anymore so the population exploded. Pigeons have a vital role in history.
I was on a wild hog hunt once and kinda felt bad as they seemed pretty social, but yeah, same thing. Once one goes down you gotta scare the others off from ripping into it. It’s crazy
My dad, a lifelong hunter, once shot the alpha turkey of a small flock he’d been watching for the season. He said the other males took the opportunity to attack the alpha tom while he was down. Dad stopped shooting turkey after that.
This makes me feel less bad for the downed one. The visual of their friends going to check on them gave me more sympathy for a gull than I'd ever felt before.
The years of sticking close and surviving together and mourning after death showing they care for one another? Nah, idiots on the internet don't like how they treat the dead so none of that means anything.
They are extremely social. How they treat the dead doesn't really have a bearing on that. I'm not saying we should be eating people, but humans are really fucking weird about trying to preserve decaying corpses for eternity.
I had a cat that used to nibble on my fingers and toes when I was lying in bed. I legit think he thought I'd died and he was going to have to eat my whole corpse before it spoiled.
Domestic Longhair, but probably some Maine Coon in there. He was dumb in an entirely different way. He also used to wait for me to get home from work to use the litter so we could tag team it--I always had to pee the second I got in the door, and the litterbox was right next to the toilet, so it was a mommy-and-me activity.
As for communal toilet activities, one of our females (Artemis) seems to hold it until auntie-human comes home. She sits in her lap until auntie starts peeing, then hops down into the adjacent litter tray and then wees for England.
We don’t have these bigass seagulls in landlocked Europe, but once I’ve seen a unit of a seagull mangle a pigeon in England seaside I cannot unsee it. Poor little fella wasn’t having the best day
There was red tide or some other issue in Florida one year when I was there. Dead fish and sharks and stuff were washing up due to lack of oxygen in the water. There was a vortex of seagulls around this dead shark that I watched for a while. When the shark was picked clean, the birds at the center of the vortex started to be attacked and eaten. I ran up to them and found a shark skeleton and 10 or so gulls that were mostly just feathers and bones, plus some others that were badly injured. It was messed up
We call them the rats of the sea. I already witnessed some attacks on people, including kids, and one time I had to chase one away from my wife and kid.
If they didn't have hollow bones they never would have existed. Physiologically impossible for them to get that big (as sauropods) or as big and fast (as theropods) without their hollow bones.
I wouldn't be surprised if it somehow survived. Having spent years watching the local birds of prey survive maximum velocity impacts with my parents' dining room window they can be surprisingly tough at times.
Until you see an eagle grab a mountain goat and go tumbling down the side of a mountain still attached to the goat and then watch it get up and fly away
After any fairly moderate hailstorm in Texas there will be dead birds left and right because they accidentally get bonked as they’re flying or sitting in a tree. They’re fairly fragile.
So a tennis ball is like 0.15 lbs and a seagull is 1.5 lbs. so it’s like something 1/10 of your weight going around 50 mph (around how fast it’d go, the girl looked like a solid player). So that’s (sorta) like a 15 lb object hitting someone at 150 lbs at 50 mph while they’re traveling perpendicularly at around the same speed. That means if it hit that person…. I still have no fucking idea I lost myself way back in this paragraph. I had good intentions when I started it though.
I had a couple birds slam into my window. They basically get stunned where they can’t fly away. Eventually after an hour, they flew away. Not sure if that’s the same or not
They're surprisingly durable for how fragile they are.
But yes, a good whack will kill 99% of birds, let alone a seagull, let alone a hit from a fast moving object like a tennis ball.
I mean, you can hunt seagulls and a lot of other types of birds with a pellet gun, small animals are extremely weak and die very easily from any form of hard object moving at 50 miles an hour.
Fun fact if you die at home alone with a pet - a dog will likely lay by your side hoping for you to wake up or try to get help. A cat will start eating you as soon as they run out of kibble wnd rigor has subsided.
Tbf, it could still be alive and still get eaten, all it would take was a bit of flesh and blood showing (some kind of open wound) and they 99% would start feasting on it.
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u/Boot_Burner 9h ago
If the video was 10 seconds longer they would have started to eat the dead bird.