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Never forget where you came from. (mander.xyz)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago (7 children)

I raise chickens. I adore the little critters, but if they were 20' high they would gleefully destroy us all. Their personality is like a cat on meth.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, they haven't forgotten a damn thing. Just watch them when they catch a mouse.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

I've only seen that once and it was brutal

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Roosters still are T-Rex. Those buggers are mean.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I just said that last night after watching our pet hen pounce on and demolish a peanut like it was going to murder her in her sleep.

She's brutal lol.

[–] seaQueue 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wait until she spots a mouse

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Oh, her and the rooster have wrecked mice. We're on the edge of town, right next to farmland, so we get mice coming through regularly. It's pretty common to find little shreds of fur and bone when they're particularly predatory.

Hell, the cats we had over the years weren't as vicious as these birds.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Chickens are so insistent and ceaseless.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I think their personalities are pretty varied.

The modern breeds like isa brown or i-line are nutters. Like they're not all there. The heritage breeds can be very... companionable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I mean just look at cassowaries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah, every time I see this meme, every person who's ever owned chickens immediately chimes in with some version of "Believe me, they know." Because the little buggers really do.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

How many of them have you destroyed?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Destroyed? As in slaughtered for no reason, none. If we're talking about how many died to feed my family and neighbors and friends; several hundred. And I continue to do so to this day. If you don't like that, I don't care.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

You broke Wheaton's law just then.

Don't be that person