From the that's just wrong files... My chickens like to eat chicken nuggets

[JCMach1]

Found out accidentally when feeding them their table scraps. They played rugby with the nugget for about 10min. before it was finally finished off.

[mopinko]

1. my chickens got the last bits of

my roosters. it just seemed too perfect of a circle not to close it.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. Wouldn't that be kinda like

cannibalistic?

[JCMach1]

3. Ummmm how much of a nugget is 'actually' chicken???

There were loving it though...

[Chan790]

4. Chicken actually are cannibals.

If you have a flock of chickens and one of them is injured even slightly...you have to segregate it out or the others will kill it and eat it. If there are too many chicks and not enough resources, hens will try to kill and eat other hens' chicks to reduce competition for resources for their own chicks.

(The neighbors growing up had chickens. Grandpa had sheep. We used to trade wool and sheep dairy for eggs.)

[Arkansas Granny]

8. We always had chickens when I was growing up, but I never saw that

behavior. I've seen the pecking of injured birds in big chicken houses, but was told that the other chickens were responding to the "foreign" object on the other bird. Our flock was just a free range farm flock. Maybe that's the difference.

[Chan790]

9. I just looked up "Cannibalism in chickens", found an interesting scientific article.

Apparently it can be common in some flocks and non-existent in others, suggesting it may be a learned behavior and/or rooted in the protein-availability of the area the flock is in.

http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/range556/appl_behave/projects/chicken_cannibalism.html

[Major Nikon]

10. I think that is the difference

I was raised around chickens also and I never saw that behavior. I suspect it's mostly limited to chickens that aren't allowed to freely roam and scavenge for bugs and worms.

[JCMach1]

13. My babies are free range on 8 rural acres with tons of insects to eat(it's Florida)

but they are still young... probably craving protein to grow.

[marzipanni]

21. When I was a kid, visiting a house where there were chickens,

I was surprised when someone dropped an egg and the chickens came running to peck up the spilled contents.

[NightWatcher]

5. When an army of zombie cannibal chickens rise up

we're pointing at you.

[JCMach1]

14. The scary part was they saw me coming with food... 21 chickens

running directly towards you.... yikes

[sarge43]

6. As my macaw says when she's munching on a drum stick,

"Nobody I know."

[In_The_Wind]

7. My macaw loves munching on chicken legs.

She doesn't like turkey. Not all fowl is fair. BTW I agree with her choice.

[sarge43]

11. She Who Must Be Obeyed has never met a food group she doesn't like.

She loves a turkey drum stick because she can spend the day reducing it to its component atoms.

[In_The_Wind]

12. She (Frodo) wants everything I eat or drink.

I felt guilty bringing home an avocado. We ate it out on the deck so she wouldn't feel left out.

We also have an Umbrella Cockatoo (Chloe) who won't eat any human food.
She'll occasionally taste peanut butter.

[Jeff R]

16. She who must be obeyed...

Gave Frodo a chip last night, tomato and basil.
She decided that after two I was not being quick enough with my treats. Soooo
She then picked up her treat cup that had noodles from soup and proceeded to dump it on my head and shoulders. Now I ask you, is that not typical parrot behavior.:
rofl:

Of course mine would have ignored people food anyway. She always has to this point.

[sarge43]

19. Very typical

Dogs have masters
Cats have staff
Parrots have serfs

[Jeff R]

20. Oh yes

Good read the Parrot Who Owns Me.

[pipi_k]

15. I'm more fascinated

by the chickens playing rugby with the nugget than anything else...

Did they split off into teams?

Wear little chicken jerseys?

Do chickens cheat when they play rugby?

Was there general chicken violence after one team won or lost?




PS...a few years ago when I had geese, the female became calcium deficient after laying a bunch of eggs. She got to the point where she could hardly walk, and I filled a small wagon with water so she wouldn't have to stand, then fed her dandelion greens and crushed eggshells. She recovered in just a few days.

[Arugula Latte]

17. ...

[kaiden]

18. Chickens are also mousers.

We haven't had mice in the llama and goat lodge since the chickens moved in. Also, the chickens are now riding the goats around the compound like they're gauchos or something.