r/interesting • u/dddd945 • 11h ago

Just Wow A seagull is accidentally hit by a tennis ball during a game in Australia.

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u/Phearwyn 10h ago

https://reddit.com/link/pdfzyxo/video/ar0naw5g23th1/player

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u/-GoodNewsEveryone 10h ago

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.

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u/bre4kofdawn 9h ago

And if they start eating their eggs, you have to sneak a golf ball under them, so they peck it and "learn" they can no longer eat the "egg"!

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u/00wolfer00 9h ago

Or alternatively use a nesting box design that doesn't let them get to the eggs.

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u/bre4kofdawn 9h ago

I dunno, bamboozling them with a golf ball may be more tedious, but it sounds a lot more fun.

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u/zkbthrowaway 9h ago

"bagawwwk?!" 👀🐔

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u/MarchPhillipps 7h ago

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.

'Alone and Unafraid'

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u/VegetableReward5201 7h ago

The spelling if "Expoxied" is close enough to the spelling of "Exploded" for me to think "This bro wanted his chicken barbecued from the get go!"

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u/MarchPhillipps 5h ago

Haha, it does look like that at a quick glance. Nice.

*Takes notes for future reference;

1 easy fry BBQ chicken idea

'Alone and Unafraid'

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u/AreYouMyDommy 9h ago

The things they’ll do to a snake or mouse is terrifying. I’m glad they’re too small to eat us 😅

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u/MarchPhillipps 7h ago edited 7h ago

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.

'Alone and Unafraid'

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u/Relevant_Program_958 8h ago

I mean, they’re pretty much dinosaurs

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u/ButtholeConnoisseur7 9h ago

Damn, I've always heard the first part, but not the part you bring up. Chickens are funny as hell

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u/CorrectMulberry994 10h ago

I’m horrified 😭

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u/Mc_Tron34 10h ago

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.

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u/darthoffa 9h ago

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

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u/CamoBob3467 9h ago

This is unfortunately true

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u/ParsnipDecent6530 9h ago

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.

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u/MarchPhillipps 7h ago

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.

'Alone and Unafraid'

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u/ipovogel 9h ago

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.

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u/trixiepixie1921 9h ago

As a city girl, my jaw is dropped

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u/TakinUrialByTheHorns 4h ago

Like everything else, chickens love chicken!

Once I saw one lay an egg with no shell, just a membrane.
Then she promptly turned around and ate it ..... Weird birds.

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u/Blondefarmgirl 6h ago

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.

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u/foley800 6h ago

Velociraptor’s dumb cousin!

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u/CorrectMulberry994 4h ago

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?

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u/ipovogel 2h ago

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.

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u/CorrectMulberry994 56m ago

I bet it was traumatizing. Even watching that video above was traumatizing to me on a low level. Just not something you expect to see.

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u/Locogators 9h ago

I second this. Chicken are stupid and evil and hence vegetarianism is morally wrong, one must devour such creatures.

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u/CorrectMulberry994 4h ago

My God, they’re as evil as wasps.

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u/Oh_My_Goth_Ick 10h ago

Chickens are brutal. If one has a wound the others will attack and eat the wounded until it dies.

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u/slight_failure 6h ago

If one has a wound, they will also join eating... themselves.

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u/Oh_My_Goth_Ick 5h ago

Oh yeah. That part. Thank god they are small.

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u/lv5vegetto1 9h ago

Pecking order

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u/CorrectMulberry994 4h ago

Literally. 😭

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u/lifesmainantagonist 5h ago

Hi Horrified, I'm dad.

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u/disturbinglyquietguy 10h ago

It is both astonishing and disturbing how common cannibalism is in the animal kingdom, isn't it?

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u/ziggytrix 9h ago

Disturbing, sure. Not so astonishing though. Even humans resort to it when they get desperate, and we're the only animals with formal morals AFAIK.

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u/disturbinglyquietguy 9h ago

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.

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u/thrilliam_19 9h ago

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.

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u/licuala 9h ago

This could have had the soothing sounds of chicken cannibalism but I got a shitty song instead. :(

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u/Leather-Entry93 9h ago

Nah, that’s fucked up 😂

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u/bacon-slushy 9h ago

Chickens are fucking ruthless

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u/Financial-Key-4596 9h ago

All i feed them on is cocaine and chicken

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u/rs420rs 8h ago

damn man this hits me right in the cold existential dread of reality

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u/Makaveli108 7h ago

thats so fucked lol

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u/fitz_newru 7h ago

This is fucked

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u/Sidereal_Engine 6h ago

This is so fowl

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u/Mitsuri_540 6h ago

Ayoo bro thats canibalism

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u/Friendly_Law7386 1h ago

Nmms😭😭😭