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Sometimes, on a walk or a bike ride, I’ll pass a yard with some chickens and it always makes me happy. There’s something to this.
Chickens are silly and wonderful.
Ducks too
Ducks are violent rapists.
Have you seen their genitalia? They kind of have to. Besides that I’ve seen very cute and happy looking duck couples.
Afaik it evolved like that for better raping. At least that’s what our biology teacher told us, after we had to watch a video about duck mating.
There are also no real couples. Most of the time several males try to get it on with the same duck and it’s not rare that their object of desire drowns because they can’t wait their turn. Nature is fucked up.
Ducks have diverse mating habits, like humans. They don’t have to rape, but they will when there’s overcrowding, males outcompete females, and/or they live in an urban environment where females lack the strength and space to escape.
Otherwise, most ducks form seasonal pair bonds with new mates each year. Some come back to the same mate each year, which isn’t quite the same as monogamy since they don’t stick together when not fucking and rearing young. A few ducks will mate for life, and a lot of larger waterfowl, like geese and swans, are monogamous.
Thanks for the additional insights!
I knew at least the part about swans. There was a huge pair of swans treating the small town they chose to live in as their personal garden and terrorizing people in traffic (pedestrians but people in cars as well). They were horrible but also treated like a holy cow, nobody was allowed to touch them and the official stance of the town was to let them be. So from time to time there were swan caused traffic jams and children knew to avoid them.
I haven’t even met them and I love those birds. Reminds me of Canada Gooses, the source of deep respect and utter annoyance as our avian fellow countrymen.
One of my BFFs is an environmental scientist who loves ducks, which means get loaded with duck facts that spill over onto others.
That must be why geese and swans are so pissy and mean compared to ducks.
The lack of rape?
Tbf, I’ve seen chickens peck a duck’s brains out
They can be silly and wonderful AND violent rapists.
Humans can’t. But ducks can.
Just like cats are cute and fluffy and also psychotic serial killers
I don’t know why people are so defensive about the fact that cats enjoy killing things for pleasure. They love seeing things in pain. They love watching them die slowly.
You shouldn’t anthropomorphize animal behavior by misinterpreting their instincts for human emotions. Feral and tame cats of all kinds will play with their food to hone hunting skills. Dogs will ravage and eviscerate other animals as play. Hamsters will eat their offspring under circumstances where it would mean the parent has a better chance to survive without them.
Cats do not “love seeing things in pain” for the same reason that dogs don’t “love” seeing a toy rabbit torn to shreds: both behaviors are rooted in their hunting instincts. True sadism (hurting or killing another being for no reason other than pleasure) has only been observed in animal groups that also possess higher-ordered cognitive and social traits, such as cetaceans and apes.
See?
Back in the 90’s before backyard chickens was a thing, I lived in the inner city in a neighborhood populated with lots of Puerto Ricans. Don’t know how long it was before I realized I heard roosters on the walk to the bus stop every morning. Now living in the burbs, my neighbors raise chickens, either they get tired of it after a year or their chickens get eaten by the foxes
my neighbors ate their chickens last year. i miss their eggs.
I have neighbors with chickens 2 houses down. I can attest that the chicken sounds bring unexplained joy.
It’s that involuntary contentedness noise they make that I love. I can’t even begin to describe it, but when you get a load of happy chickens loafing about somewhere warm they make a super-relaxing sound that’s like their equivalent of purring.
We had chickens growing up, but we had a large farm so they just sort of roamed around. I can’t imagine trying to keep them in a back garden of a normal house.
It’s pretty low effort as long as you clip one of their wings to make sure they don’t fly away
I was thinking more about the space constraints. Chickens need quite a lot of space to be comfortable, both in terms of health but also because if they get stressed the attack each other. So they need space to spread out.
Trying to do that in suburbia seems sort of unfair to the chickens you know. The garden I have right now would need to be at least five times the size it currently is in order to meet the minimum size, and it still wouldn’t comply because it’s basically all just concrete and borders. So it has to be both big and basically all grass.
I love chickens
Ok Ed
Many door, yes, Ed-boy?
Fake: Anon goes outside
Gay: Anon likes cocks
Gay-shaming?
Hey man, we just want people to be more true to themselves
No roosters I guess
A rooster is a male chicken.
Yes, very good dear.
My neighbor had chickens and a rooster. It was loud, as expected, but it was lazy and would only start later in the day. In actuality it was probably because it was young and separated from other roosters. It probably eventually would’ve done the morning routine but a fox got them all one day
In Hawaii, roosters seem to crow whenever tf they want @.@
They don’t sing exclusively at dawn, but that’s when they start
goddamn i want me some chickens.
Then the homeowner’s assocition hears about it
Around mid-2020 I worked at a callcenter. The organization I worked for had lower tiers of support via a callcenter in the Philippines and higher tiers via the stateside callcenter I worked at. When everyone went remote some of the staff at the Philipines callcenter emigrated to other countries and there was one particular member who always had some very noisy chickens in the background of their calls. It seriously reminded me how nice remote work can be for folks because this guy was chilling at home with his chickens nearby instead of in a stuffy office with a bunch of other unhappy underpaid callcenter workers. It was funny though how some customers reacted to it, sometimes it would just be one more thing for angry customers to complain about and other times it would be a wistful thing a customer commented about in a later positive review
Thanks chickens
I used to have chickens in a city when it wasn’t legal. They got reported and we had to rehome them. They were fun, though, and having fresh eggs was always great.
Where’d they end up?
I don’t remember specifically, but we definitely gave them to a family we knew personally, and I’m sure they weren’t slaughtered or anything.
In the shredder
To shreds you say
What a delight the person who reported you must be
Oh yeah. Next door neighbor. She’s been a nightmare. She threw fits demanding we move one of our fences. She systematically sprayed our plants with Round Up every year. She once hired unqualified dumbasses to cut down one of their trees which hit our house on the way down. (They felled it from the bottom “TIMBER” style as if it wasn’t a crowded suburban residential neighborhood.)
Yeah, she was a huge pain to live right next to. And then she died and her daughter moved in. And she’s just as bad. :\ We just avoid her.
have you tried using a spray-water bottle to punish bad behavior, it works on dogs and cats maybe it’ll work on something less intelligent?
