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I'm surprised that chickens eat mosquitoes efficiently, seeing as they can't fly much.
by FartyMcFarter 5y ago
I'm surprised that chickens eat mosquitoes efficiently, seeing as they can't fly much.
- klyrs 5y agoMy guess is that the chickens go after the larvae, not the flying adults.
- spfzero 5y agoThe larvae hatch in water, then molt at the surface which takes a while (during which they can not yet fly). That's probably where the chickens find them.
- xwdv 5y agoIt's a miracle chickens find such tiny things in sufficient numbers to satisfy their hunger at all. Although, maybe if we take scale into account, it would be like a human finding sausages in a river or something.
- frosted-flakes 5y agoYou could see these things too if your eyes were regularly 3" off the ground.
- kbenson 5y agoAll of a sudden I'm having a nostalgia flashback to the early 90's where I'm reading some humorous text doc I'd downloaded from the local BBS regarding the theory of chickens flying at light speed, or something along those lines.
- JaimeThompson 5y agoWas this it? https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/the-chicken-theory-by-douglas-adams.36691/#:~:text=The%20hypothesis%20of%20the%20chicken%20theory%20is%20this%3A,rural%20environment%20for%20more%20than%20a%20few%20feet https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/the-chicken-theory-....
- kbenson 5y agoHonestly, I can't quite recall. I've read that before, and can't place whether it was the one I was thinking of or something I read later.