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A man who sailed round the world with a chicken (2019)
- cm2187 1y agoAlways consider your travel companions as a potential source of proteins if things turn to shit!
- x______________ 1y ago'if things turn to shit' A chicken already lays eggs daily, what more protein do you need? Also /s aside(from me or op), this comment feels like it's from someone who never had a buddy or travel companion. Either both make it or you don't, otherwise you're not travel companions.
- bravesoul2 1y agoWhat do you feed the chicken? Fish maybe.
- OJFord 1y agoDefinitely not its own eggs
- yurishimo 1y agoReal question: is this a problem? I assume a chicken would eat eggs if you cooked it. Seems like it would eventually stop working because of physics, but is there another reason why a chicken couldn't eat eggs and keep producing more eggs?
- arkey 1y agoChickens definitely can and do eat eggs. Ideally cooked, good protein source for them. However, you have a big problem if they discover they can crack eggs and eat the contents. They go crazy on them and it's difficult to get them to stop.
- jessekv 1y agoIf you have this problem, leave one of those stone eggs in the nesting box to help them break the habit.
- eth0up 1y agoI have always thought the only reasonable way when capable is as a vegetarian. But I feel less well, unambiguously so as one, which is part of why I'm not one. When I was one, I'd make a few exceptions each year. At the time, I was a serious competitive chess player with a well obscured tendency for occasional brilliance. But mediocrity was my primary trait. On every occasion, without failure, these carnivorous exceptions would lift my mediocrity into formidable respectability. Every time. Killing and salivating on animals for the sake of a board game is macabre. Though it was not only chess. For me, much else is affected by the absence or presence of this mysterious substance. I wish we had figured out the true reasons for this by now, because protein supplements never quite matched or equalled the results of a properly ingurgitated beast chunk. I still wonder. I certainly want to change it. This is a good opportunity for prayer, to ask or beckon the seemingly aloof mind of the aether for wisdom and express a will for something better. To ponder. Crickets. Existentially, I oppose this universe. It's magnificence aside, there's something shameful about its role as a giant digestive system where its every component is eating itself, fastidiously vying for energy exchange ever malcontent. Stars eating stars, beast eating beast, particles eating waves.... An insatiable auto cannibal, a meandering mongoloid ouroboros, a mockery of the inevitable perpetual motion device that birthed it billions of years ago. I protest this frothing stolid bang of intractable drooling entropy. I wish it would leave the chickens and everyone else alone.
- modo_mario 1y ago>When I was one, I'd make a few exceptions each year. At the time, I was a serious competitive chess player with a well obscured tendency for occasional brilliance. But mediocrity was my primary trait. On every occasion, without failure, these carnivorous exceptions would lift my mediocrity into formidable respectability. Every time. >Killing and salivating on animals for the sake of a board game is macabre. Though it was not only chess. For me, much else is affected by the absence or presence of this mysterious substance. I wish i could find the Huberman podcast episode again where he was interviewing some researcher or so who went over a wide host of less known compounds beneficial for the brain in some minor ways. Far too often he opened with having to disappoint the vegans or vegetarians because these were only found in (red) meat and/or fish or so. It's been a long time since but i remember coming to the conclusion from that and some research that whilst you didn't need to eat a lot of those for it (I'd assume less than the average western diet except maybe of fatty fish) there was no way to supplement all of them and live "optimally" without em.
- oreally 1y agoBest not to tell that story. There was that story of an explorer lost in the jungle who had to kill and eat his loyal dog for the sake of survival. People on the internets did not like it.
- hinkley 1y agoHei hei?
- dsmurrell 1y ago[flagged]
- cogogo 1y agowhoever downvoted this definitely hasn’t seen moana too many times with their kids
- hinkley 1y agoMoana was such a relief after Frozen. Some of Lin Manuel Miranda’s best work. Multiple bangers instead of just that. One. Song. (Even the kids got tired of Let It Go)
- a3w 1y agoEat the chicken, protein for two weeks. Take a hen, not a rooster like Heihei, and you get more protein out of it over time.
- hinkley 1y agoThe pig had PTSD after her first trip, and hei hei was technically a stowaway.
- a3w 1y agoCame here looking for Moana (2016) references. Why so far down?
- jblezo 1y agoMe and my children follow Guirec since its first adventures with Monique when he first sailed through the Northwest Passage. He later crossed the Atlantic by rowing, back and forth, and this year he did the Vendée Globe race. This guy's determination and dedication is insane.
- gadders 1y agoIf someone could work out a way to produce chickens that can be reliably toilet-trained they would make great pets. They're pretty smart, can be very friendly and (not many people know this) they actually smell nice - kind of like a new puppy smell.
- gambiting 1y ago100x this. If they had control over their pooping(and they don't, and I don't believe they can be trained in any way, it's just how their physiology works), they would be absolutely awesome pets.
- freehorse 1y agoChicken diapers?
- gadders 1y agoPeople have claimed to have done it, but not convinced.
- raverbashing 1y agoThey can't Fun biology fact: birds can't control their n.1 and n.2 because anything that they would potentially store would make them heavier for flight
- OptionOfT 1y ago
- dedicate 1y agoI'm obsessed with this! But part of me is like, how much of this was "I need a companion" and how much was "a chicken will make this an EPIC story"? No shade, it IS epic!
- JKCalhoun 1y agoMyself, it would be all about the eggs.
- actionfromafar 1y agoThat's how it started apparently.
- danielovichdk 1y agoThere is videos of them as well somewhere online, where they hang out, surf and so forth. Great story!
- danielovichdk 1y agohttps://youtu.be/FgYV8Lvxw7s?si=1G8qr-swIXyYokly https://youtu.be/FgYV8Lvxw7s?si=1G8qr-swIXyYokly
- madcaptenor 1y agoI was skimming and read this as "on a chicken". Not sure how that would work.
- pegasus 1y agoThis reminds me of this guy, who's doing the same, but with a pet cat. A very inspiring story. Instagram shows he just reached his first destination, Hawaii! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVNJIZs5aEs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVNJIZs5aEs
- deadbabe 1y agoHow could the eggs be of much nutritional value with the limited diet the chicken gets on the ship?
- ryanianian 1y agoChicken feed can be nutritionally complete. We've industrialized chicken nutrition.
- slfnflctd 1y agoAbsolute madness. I'm glad the guy did okay-- it's nice that so many unwise decisions didn't lead to total disaster, and makes for a great story... but I certainly hope no one tries to emulate this. Almost seems irresponsible to promote in the current social media climate. He's lucky to be alive.
- alphawhisky 1y agoWanted to like the guy but he owns a private island? Dude definitely has never worked a day in his life.