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“The enormity of their stupidity is just overwhelming” https://youtu.be/QhMo4WlBmGM?si=RLmmOCX43l0nOq_q https://youtu.be/QhMo4WlBmGM?si=RLmmOCX43l0nOq_q

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tbyehl 3y ago
He's not wrong. Source: Have around a dozen varieties of chicken.
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salad-tycoon 3y ago
This is true. Had one eat a burning ember from a roaring fire. Its beak melted and became stuck to the fire. I Had to kick it free. She survived. Apparently chicken breaks are like nails and grow back. Another one pecked at something under a ledge and managed to break its neck by trying to stand up. If they get out of my fenced area they will ram into the same section for the whole day trying to join the flock even though there is a clear opening 3 feet away. Never had turkeys but apparently if you leave any kind of hanging object they will find a way to hang themselves. Just a handful of examples. They are stupendously stupid.
- paradox460 3y ago
  Not only are they like nails, but they'll actually keep growing, like rodent teeth. We had one poor hen who decided she preferred soft foods, and would never scrape her beak on rocks or other things. She wouldn't peck, rather she'd gently rip off chunks of bread and such. We had to eventually trim the end of her beak with a trimmer, because it was getting large enough to interfere with her ability to drink
  - animal531 3y ago
    I also didn't know this until I saw an Urban Ranch video where they have a goose with an injured beak, so they're feeding the animal manually until it regrows its beak.
- argiopetech 3y ago
  Turkeys will also look straight up in the rain with their breaks open and drown. We've bred them for size and aesthetic appeal, not brains. Guinea fowl still take the prize, though, and they're skittish and loud to boot.
  - opo 3y ago
    >Turkeys will also look straight up in the rain with their breaks open and drown. That appears to just be urban folklore: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/drown-and-out/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/drown-and-out/
- hypercube33 3y ago
  Horses wake up in the morning and decide how they are going to try to kill themselves is something I learned as a kid growing up on a farm as well as pig blood lust (chickens also have this too) and that cows are vegetables with legs. They'll stand in a pond and pee while they are drinking or poop on each other.
  - volemo 3y ago
    A cow is a legged vegetable but sometimes it short-circuits and sends you flying just for passing by.

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tbyehl 3y ago

He's not wrong. Source: Have around a dozen varieties of chicken.

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salad-tycoon 3y ago

This is true. Had one eat a burning ember from a roaring fire. Its beak melted and became stuck to the fire. I Had to kick it free. She survived. Apparently chicken breaks are like nails and grow back. Another one pecked at something under a ledge and managed to break its neck by trying to stand up. If they get out of my fenced area they will ram into the same section for the whole day trying to join the flock even though there is a clear opening 3 feet away. Never had turkeys but apparently if you leave any kind of hanging object they will find a way to hang themselves. Just a handful of examples. They are stupendously stupid.

paradox460 3y ago
Not only are they like nails, but they'll actually keep growing, like rodent teeth. We had one poor hen who decided she preferred soft foods, and would never scrape her beak on rocks or other things. She wouldn't peck, rather she'd gently rip off chunks of bread and such. We had to eventually trim the end of her beak with a trimmer, because it was getting large enough to interfere with her ability to drink
- animal531 3y ago
  I also didn't know this until I saw an Urban Ranch video where they have a goose with an injured beak, so they're feeding the animal manually until it regrows its beak.
argiopetech 3y ago
Turkeys will also look straight up in the rain with their breaks open and drown. We've bred them for size and aesthetic appeal, not brains. Guinea fowl still take the prize, though, and they're skittish and loud to boot.
- opo 3y ago
  >Turkeys will also look straight up in the rain with their breaks open and drown. That appears to just be urban folklore: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/drown-and-out/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/drown-and-out/
hypercube33 3y ago
Horses wake up in the morning and decide how they are going to try to kill themselves is something I learned as a kid growing up on a farm as well as pig blood lust (chickens also have this too) and that cows are vegetables with legs. They'll stand in a pond and pee while they are drinking or poop on each other.
- volemo 3y ago
  A cow is a legged vegetable but sometimes it short-circuits and sends you flying just for passing by.