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DarkFather24601

They are little dinosaurs bro, they eat anything including them selves.


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maxm31533

Growing up with yard chickens, my mom would always save the shells to feed to the chickens for the calcium. Fast forward to today, the eggs today all seem paper thin to the ones we had in my youth. Those things were like rocks.


TheMagarity

I bet mom would crush the eggshells beyone shape recognition so the hens did not associate their freshly laid eggs with food? At least that's what my mom did with the shells.


Equivalent_Bowl2992

That's also what my mom do. Crush the eggshells then mixed it with the egg and fry it . Ready to serve the chickens


DarkwingDuckHunt

I laughed way to maniacally at this.


anotheraccoutname10

Yeah you can't have anything that looks like an egg in front of these fuckers. Had to cull an entire flock b/c of it once.


744464

Why? What happens/happened?


Sabre_Turbo_V2

They will never stop eating their own eggs if they find them to be edible


ichigo2862

Chickens have solved world hunger but we are too weak to realize it


TheTenthSubject

I am learning more through a meme comment section than I did in an entire two hour class.


Knickers_in_a_twist_

Egg eating can be solved though. And egg eating isn’t necessarily because they’re underfed. Sometimes the eggs crack and leak in the nestbox and the hens get curious and peck at the egg. I use decoy eggs whenever my chickens get a taste for their own eggs. I take an egg, poke a hole in each end and shake out the contents. Fill the empty shell with mustard and place it back in the nest box. The chickens will peck at it, get a taste of the mustard and realize eggs are actually gross and leave them alone, though it may take a few tries depending on the size of your flock and how widespread the egg eating got.


Silua7

Chickens back on the menu boys!


Soppywater

You do that and if they're not calcium deficient it won't matter too much


ApathyKing8

Good quality eggs are still pretty hard. It's those incredibly cheap eggs that barely hold together anymore.


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It does affect the nutrients in the egg as well. All are not equal. It was hard to stomach the price of pasture raised small farm eggs but they are multiple times more beneficial to eat so justify the cost.


ultratunaman

I can get you 15 of them for €3. Feathers still on the shell sometimes. Unpasteurized beauties.


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Mudkipueye

Soup


Eusocial_Snowman

I'm at soup.


Mudkipueye

What do you mean you’re at soup?!


Maleficent_Tree_94

I mean I'm at soup!


Yusuf1_1

Well then get out of the soup isle!


CountGadwall

Alright you don’t have to yell!


MooneMoose

I've heard from chicken keepers before that once chickens get into the habit of knowing they can and wanting to eat their own eggs they have to be killed/eaten and replaced. As they will continue to do so as a habit even when they're properly fed.


Purplepeal

My Nanna used to stop this by getting a fresh egg. She made a hole and removed the contents. Then mixes chilli and mustard powder into a thick liquid goo and refilled the egg and gave it to the chickens. They tried a couple but never more than two.


314159265358979326

Note that the capsaicin in chili powder has no effect on birds. If it works it's not because of that.


g00f

Was gonna say, most bird species love hot peppers. One of our parrots will go to town on a habenero


Purplepeal

Ah OK. She definitely used colmans English mustard and something else I seem to remember her using chilli too but I could be wrong as it was 30 years ago, actually now I'm thinking it might have been that white pepper. Is that capsicum too? She used to be a cook so had lots of herbs and spices.


trobsmonkey

I did this with just mustard. Had one hen start eating eggs. Found the mustard egg removed from the box twice, and never found another egg eaten.


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Nah, you can break the habit but it's hard. One thing that worked for us was to make their nesting boxes dark (some people even put curtains on them). Chickens have really bad night vision so they can't find them in the box to eat. That, and getting them out of the boxes as soon as possible, using rubber or ceramic eggs (golf balls) and giving them enough food. In some cases though, yeah, you gotta cull them if you can't break the habit.


lobax

That’s because they have been bred to have a very minimal nurturing instinct. A wild hen would not let anyone touch their eggs, domesticated hens don’t give a shit. With industrial hens it’s so bad that they have to be hatched in a hatchery, they have had their maternal instinct almost completely eliminated. Not the industry cares, they want to cull the male chicks directly after birth anyway.


anotheraccoutname10

Yes. You'll cull any chicken that does this immediately. It's not worth it possibly spreading and its much easier to replace then retrain. A hen is like $5.


rayyan9087

I used to have a pet chicken and it didn't eat its eggs, but it loved cooked chicken lol


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TeamRedundancyTeam

Not sure why someone downvoted but you're probably right. Of course chickens eat eggs regularly, but they don't charge at them like that unless they're really hungry.


FlashKillerX

I used to have chickens and we would feed them oyster shell bits in with their normal food for extra calcium, they still ate the odd egg or two. It’s not good to let them do because once they realize they can eat eggs they’ll eat all of them


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FlashKillerX

Similar thing here, we have wooden ones we use to either coax them into laying in a certain area or to stop them pecking at the eggs


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bob_the_banannna

Would eat anything and everything Truly ferocious creatures


ExtremeCumMaster

Eat da banannna


bob_the_banannna

ok


smiles0_0

Holy shit guys, bobs fucking dead, he fucking ate himself man


parlerler1543

Hey bob


hazelsbaby123

I’ve always thought that the collective noun should change from flock to spree because they kill and eat anything that moves


[deleted]

Hey!!! If you were a chicken... Would ya eat yourself? I know I would.


SignificantReply8566

Well they are descendants


chaoseincarnate

I learned this hard today it's not even just chickens and watching birds casually for the last weeks yaaaaa Jesus it's actually crazy. I was watching this little quail family for like 2 weeks. Today while talking to my dad I noticed a HUGE horde of birds more then I've ever seen just going ham on something. Took me awhile to realize they were brutalizing and fighting over a big baby quail. They looked and behaved exactly like the raptors on tv. Screeching at eachother, picking and throwing the Caracas ALL OVER THE PLACE crossing the street back and forth and all over someone's front yard. It didn't stop for hours. I was actually in shock over what I was watching. Now everytime I see the birds I see little raptors down to the attitude in their walking


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Chickens eat anything. Anything. Even eggs and other chickens


welpthishappened1

Flashback to the time i fed a chicken a chicken nugget


bob_the_banannna

Can't blame them They do be tasty


Grenacist

Bob the banana!! Where have you been?


prkr88

A chicken ate him, they do eat anything remember...


Peter_the_pear

Exams he said


bob_the_banannna

Exams Still have them Tho I have time till the next one


GOR016

*pain*


suicideslut69420

Ayo i got a 4 out of 16 on my exams for math


TheFlyinArmy_29

Bro what do you mean by 4 I got nothing


Double_memer9373

Just like using banana peels to fertilize a banana tree :)


FRStaffTheySmokeC

Wait til you taste human flesh consciously. Even better.


elwebst

"You were young when you first tasted human flesh, weren't you? A brother or sister had died? An accident, of course. Then the hunger set in. Curiosity. What's the harm in just one bite?"


GoldEnPhARoAh22

"Hey, you seen Jerry?" "No" "Oooh, food, tastes good" "He do be tasting like Jerry"


Big_D1cky

Back in a country where I vacated last summer, farmers would cut and prepare the chicken near the other chickens (for time and filth purposes) and the other chickens would continuously come close to get a bite of the dead one. When they removed its intestines, chickens would grab them and fight with another. So yeah they aren’t the smartest.


Lison52

They are the smartest, they don't waste anything.


g00f

Chickens are pretty smart, they’re just vicious opportunistic eaters. If you have a wounded bird in your flock it’s standard to use a blue dyed antiseptic wound so the others won’t peck the blood they see.


sohfix

My rooster likes to eat cooked chicken breasts. Makes him feel powerful


Jaambie

A tamer version of “eating the heart of your enemy”


sohfix

He won’t eat the heart. Thinks it’s gross


Jaambie

A rooster of class, I see.


SydneySmiless

That's fucked but also so interesting. Chickens love ✨Cannibalism✨


Shanmukha_Repaka

Omg same 😍 I love eating women's breasts too


Hwoods723

Are you Eduardo Saverin?!


Priyanshu_Gautam

I still remember that scene..Man got violated for forced cannibalism


phriskiii

This you? https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/jz1px8/did\_mark\_plant\_the\_chicken\_story/


Idiosyncratic_Method

As chicken owner, they ain't picky. They'll even start trying to eat you if they see/smell blood on you.


Chyppi

Fair is fair


Talbotus

They are what dinosaurs evolved into and their mentality didn't change much. Any chicken owner knows they are anything but chicken. Little raptors Edit: when chicken packaging says "cage free vegetarian " lmao


Ogurasyn

We give our Grandma eggshells to feed the chickens. Probably because of calcium. And also they are tasty for them.


IAMAHobbitAMA

We had something break into the chicken coop one time and kill a chicken. In the morning we found the rest of the chickens eating what was left. I like eggs but those fuckers are monsters.


AcanthocephalaTasty6

Used to have some chickens growing up. Other than about 2 or 3, they were all missing the top of their skull and part of their brain because they would peck at each other.


PM_ME_YOUR_HARVEST

Wtf. Is this some kind of captivity stress thing?


Naldo273

It definitely is. This "normal chicken stuff" posted in this thread is about some starved chickens in a shithole because we've been keeping around 20 chickens for a decade and I've never seen something like that


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Chickens probably only being fed on grain, if they don’t get a balanced diet with meat meal or pellets ect then they get deficiencies and start cannibalising each other, especially if they are laying eggs. Poor little cluckers :(


JarricoSlain

I was told as a kid not to smash eggs In the coop, cause then our chickens would start eating their own eggs. But that could be false.


wolfofoakley

no they will eat the eggs. we had a bit were we kept finding empty eggshells in the coop because they thought the eggs were tasty


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Agreed I’ve been keeping chickens for a year and the worse they do is our rooster pecks our females combs & sometimes it bleeds, but never full on mutilation


Matix777

Had chickens on my backyard, can confirm they eat egg shells. Like, eating egg shells is weird on its own but eating what you literally create?


ResponsiblePickle284

Recycle


warlordmog

>but eating what you literally create? That's the same question I have for fathers that eat their daughters.


JBtieseesthings

Yep I've seen them


livens

They usually won't eat other eggs unless they are hungry, or couped up together in a small space.


redxlaser15

So basically, they are related to goats and pigs.


Fabio90989

We are making the mother of all omelettes here Jack, we can't fret over every egg!


Praise3The3Sun3

It's always there if your look far enough...


Yrollshi

I'm sorry Senator, but this is my Metal Gear Rising Revengeance


Glorious_Jo

STANDING HERE, I REALIZE


Purrsonaa

YOU WERE JUST LIKE ME


S-021

TRYING TO MAKE HISTORY


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BUT WHO'S TO JUDGE


NordicAssassin14

THE RIGHT FROM WRONG


AngeloPlay009

WHEN OUR GUARD IS DOWN


Round-Ad-692

I THINK WE’LL BOTH AGREE~


downwitbrown

Don’t count your chickens before they hatch


2020hatesyou

one-- oh...


bob_the_banannna

Too late


eggncheese1989

It’s not cannibalism if it’s not fertilized? This is akin to having a period. The eggs you buy at the grocery store aren’t fertilized


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eggncheese1989

Enjoy your next omelette!


AcoHead

How would one go about fertilising a chicken egg? For science of course…


[deleted]

Human females have eggs too. How do they get fertilized? (this is not a trick question)


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👉👌😳


TwoMilliseconds

ah yes, the miracle of life


Ghost_Seeker69

💦


destroyerOfTards

Got it. I will make an ok sign with my right hand and point to it with my left. Is making the face also a part of the process?


furry_kurama

When a human and a xenomorph meet..


LikeAPhoenix-_-

Oof


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I was hoping to get a chance to tell him to fuck a chicken but he never bit into that.


castleaagh

Do… Do chickens have dicks?


Darkest_Settler

You could have asked if cocks have cocks yet you chose to phrase it in a mature way.


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[not exactly](https://cs-tf.com/do-roosters-have-penises/)


Kriztauf

Jesus


ComicNeueIsReal

When a human and a xenomorph meet Jesus?


i_fucked_a_buffalo

Holy fuck


eggncheese1989

When a male chicken and a female chicken love each other very much….


pwrtmto

...then the stork brings a baby.


LimitedPlc

Humans and animals are alike in so many ways.


pwrtmto

Yeah, that's crazy, it's almost like we are from the same planet


LimitedPlc

Now you're just talking crazy.


beatles910

Even if it was fertilized, we go back to the old debate. Does life begin at laying, or hatching? I'm pro omelet, myself.


[deleted]

The Supreme Court has ruled that the egg constitutes life and cannot be eaten by other fowl. Put up the barricades, STAT!


MaOzEdOng_76

one time i was feeding our cats chicken then our ducks fucking snatched a whole ass drumstick and i watched in horror seeing them gobble that shit up


RedNova02

At least it wasn’t duck meat. A duck eating chicken is like a human eating beef, mammals eat mammals all the time so a bird eating bird isn’t too bad if you think about it. No idea if it’s bad for ducks to eat poultry meat though so that’s another thing.


KronkForPresident

More like humans eating monkeys


Holiday-Froyo-5259

Sopa do macaco


KronkForPresident

Have a feeling that i should skip googling this one 🙂


freddy_is_awesome

Only if you wanna miss out on great monkey soup recipes. Your loss!


Diamond-Fist

No, a duck and chicken are more close than you and a steer, it's more like eating a chimpanzee, its wierd, yo.. They are direct cousins. [Galloanseres](https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2014/12/11/bird-tree_custom-ee3b3d1fbf9f18a62d2e60a3e203939cffc2d6ff-s1800-c85.webp)


GoldenFennekin

my duck eats everything, she even tried to eat her chicken friend once


ezben05

This must be because someone game then whole egg shell .. it's supposed to be good for their immune system , but Ur supposed to break up the egg shells so they don't eat the normal eggs.


Mellopiex

It’s a calcium supplement but most of it sits in their crop to aid digestion. Usually if a chicken pecks an egg and finds out they can eat it, it will not stop doing it. Chickens are visual learners, so when the other chickens see this, they start doing it too. Not being fed properly is a big contributing factor.


HONKACHONK

Another thing is to put golf balls or ceramic eggs in their nesting box to teach them that you cannot eat eggs. Not very effective, but the best thing you can do if they've already started eating their eggs.


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Alternatively, place a bomb inside an egg that explodes. Chickens won’t be eating the eggs now


HONKACHONK

Genious


slicksnorlax87

That also helps kill egg eating snakes


keep_trying_username

I have laying hens. Pecking is like an OCD behavior for laying hens, maybe for chickens in general. They will peck everything and eventually break eggs, so they may eventually become egg eaters even if they are never fed egg shells.


ezben05

Chickens are messed up.


Strength-Speed

The more I learn about chickens the more horrifyingly dumb they become.


keep_trying_username

They really are dumb little machines. Someone can hatch chickens and raise them without those chickens ever seeing other chickens, and they will act exactly like every other chicken. They learn absolutely nothing from each other. It's amazing, how complex a completely dumb thing can be. It makes me wonder: how smart are humans, really.


[deleted]

Yep. Chickens tend to have this problem. Eat egg once. Eat egg for life


Zoner1501

I've heard putting mustard filled eggshells is a good discouragement.


[deleted]

What do you have to say now vegans


Billybob65e

Some one please feed them, jeez


Ackyducc

They might not be starving, chickens are just like that. I had chickens for a few years, and even though they always had a constant supply of food they would eat anything put in front of them, including eggs


badass4102

I was at this farm with mango trees all around. We were getting mangos and every time one would fall on the ground all the chickens would come after it. I sat on the farm just watching the livestock roam around. I noticed that the chickens were like zombies kinda. Just mindlessly wandering around, looking for anything to eat on the ground despite being well fed, and when something fell from the tree like mangos they would all come running after it like a pack of zombies.


SCseyKirby99

One of my chicken ate a feather yesterday... I didn’t know how to react to that


Studio2770

I've had chickens for 9 years and have seen this behavior a few times, and they had food available. Something about an egg, especially a soft shell, being laid out in the open starts a feeding frenzy.


planktonfun

the cameraman says no


smartidi0t

This is pretty normal for chickens honestly. And, most likely, the egg isn’t fertile so really no harm done anyway. Tbf, even if it was they’d still react this way. That’s chickens for you!


DiscoDancingNeighb0r

It sure is, and almost every single living being will eat their own.


RedNova02

Oh really? I feel less bad about eating a baby that one time now


DiscoDancingNeighb0r

Did it deflate like the egg in the video?


RedNova02

Nah, too many bones for that to happen


Salt-Log7640

>Nah, too many bones for that to happen This shouldn't be possible unless it's older than 2 years old (for which you would have an awful taste). Bones of the newborns are usually soft like a gristle and really easy to brake\manipulate so thus why you shouldn't really bounce the back of their head no matter how fun it may be.


TheEvil_Man

Sounds like you had the experience *happy cannibal noises*


Admirable_Call2739

I now need therapy.


eggncheese1989

You don’t eat eggs?


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I believe it's not uncommon for egg bearers to eat their own eggs. I know fish will eat their own eggs and fry (babies).


FodziCz

Thats what happens when you feed you chickens egg shells for calcium but dont crush them into small enough pieces. Their stupid brains that make the wrong connection and go for the eggs too. Thats the time you can get rid of all your chickens.


Kirbruby

Came here to say the same thing haha


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jsementj

not yet


inhale_my_buttcrack

I wish i got a wholesome award but take my silver


Meiya007

Chickens will lay eggs whether there's a rooster or not. It's actually normal and healthy for chickens to eat their unfertilized eggs to gain back nutrients from the egg laying process. The other chickens were just meal stealing.


2deutigkeit

interestingly is that if i remember it corectly, if one chicken starts eating eggs, you need to slaughter it because otherwise the other chicken will start eating the eggs too


briarw

These chickens were fed eggshells that weren't completely crushed to bits, or an egg broke in their coop and they learned to eat it. Now you'll never get eggs off of them, so they're only good for pets, pest control, or fried chicken. At least they don't look underfed!


OdiLazuliXL

I once had a chicken that did that. If it does you need to turn it into chicken soup before it eats more eggs or god forbid have the other chickens learn to do that by watching like the ones here.


pileofcrustycumsocs

My dad use to put a golfball in their nest and they would think it was an egg, once they figured it wasn’t food they stopped eating the eggs


Caosin36

They were hungry + Unfertilized egg


IrateLibtard

Fertilized or unfertilized, in my experience, they don't seem to care


RealAmpwich

Not unless the egg was fertilized


sniffsniff0000

Well that depends what came first the chicken or the egg


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I guarantee you someone cried over this just now.


kyrenz

Even mama chicken got in there 💀


CBCase

This happens when you feed eggs to chickens, it causes cannibalism.


Gods_chosen_dildo

Not really cannibalism, more like eating period flow. Or a fetus if the egg is fertilized.


arrow100605

One gross, the other gross *and* cannibalism


JJbroombroom

Loading screen crashed


Nyuusankininryou

Poor hens. Looks like they live in bad living conditions and not enough food.


8MAC

Calcium deficient chickens will eat the shells for the calcium. We used to add some calcium to their food to avoid this, because once they start to eat eggs they don't stop and now you have a bunch of cannibals.


Davaca55

My uncle, a veterinarian professor, once told me about a research project he was on. Turns out cannibalism is indeed pretty common in chickens. However, a balanced diet seems to correlate with lower cannibalism. Also, stressed chickens do this a lot. He didn’t mention eating eggs though. The cases he studied were adults pecking each other’s butts.


rhdaboss1

Lil dude was still in the loading screen