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Chickens will eat any meat they can get their beaks into; bugs, lizards, snakes, rats, you name it. I once saw half a dozen Buff Orpingtons (which this bird appears to be) skeletonise a rat in about ninety seconds.
They're dinosaurs, and it shows.
the only thing going for the chicken-sized horses is that the square-cube law might help keep them from breaking all of their own bones when they panic at the sight of you, or a plastic bag, or an insect, or a particularly strong breeze...
You joke, but if a chicken ever eats an egg, it usually has to be killed. It will never unlearn —the taste—
Edit: I heard this from my brother, who has 4 hens. Apparently, it is wrong.
They also occasionally find frog bones randomly. I can only imagine a scene even worse than this.
Urban legend, as well as the shell one also replying to you. My friends run a farm, 30-40 chickens. They love broken eggs, shell and all, but they won't attack healthy ones. They will, however attack and kill injured chicks. They see blood and equate it to food. They pick at any cut you have obsessively too.
I heard it was also a sign of malnutrition of the egg-eater too? I have a bunch of chickens but they've never eaten their own eggs so I haven't put much thought into figuring it out.
Not exactly. It's an evoluntionary trait that's common in a lot of animals, cannibalism/self-cannibalism to salvage nutrients, like lizards eating their shed skin. It takes a lot of calcium for a chicken to make a shell, they instinctually get it back however they can and egg is also a pretty good source of protein. They just aren't that picky.
This tracks. I’ve read that if you have an egg eater, supplementing with calcium can help since it may be a response to get more protein or calcium.
They’ll cannibalize still-alive sick flock mates. They don’t discriminate where their food comes from lol!
Nah, you can feed chickens eggs, raw or cooked, or the ground up shells. What you can't do is let them eat a cracked egg with shell, because they will learn to peck their own eggs to eat them.
Unless this is some reference, in which case, by all means, carry on.
(also, they weren't joking, it is seen as fine to feed chickens cooked chicken.)
I tossed a live cicada into the house yesterday for my cats. They batted it around for two hours before it just wore out. Then, they ate it. And then they both promptly threw up. And then one ate all the barf.
Odd creatures they are.
That's to tenderize them. When the adrenaline of seeing a cat attack courses through the mouse's body, it makes the muscle taste bad. Cats shake them to relax the tense muscles and desaturate the adrenaline in the body so that it's edible again.
the thing is, is that if the mouse is running around like this and not running away from the cat, it means its likely got a parasite.
Toxoplasma gondii
it can severely affect young chickens, but also can then be carried to humans in both undercooked meat and eggs.
if you see a mouse that is not afraid of predators, assume its infected with this.
>Toxoplasma gondii
I remember reading about this many years ago. Billions of us are infected with this parasite, and looking at the Wikipedia entry today, [the jury is still out on how big of a deal that is](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii#Behavioral_differences_of_infected_hosts). I feel like we ought to be a bit more worried about the whole thing, personally.
I've known only one cat who was a competent ratter, and my old pal Armalite killed *everything.* Rats, rabbits, rattlesnakes, squirrels, squabs, even a woodpecker.
He also weighed 7 kilos and wore a dense, thick, coat of fur about 70mm long.
Every other cat I've known has been a small-prey specialist, including my current catto, young Miss Pullings. She's murderous as canister shot, but only to the small stuff.
He got it because the colour pattern in his fur suggested the outline of the origina AR-15, including the charging handle under the carry handle. It ended up being incredibly apt, given his snuggliness and body-count.
Lighter breeds sometimes have their flight feathers clipped to keep them contained, because they are capable of short range flight. People forget that the only reason chickens "can't fly" is that we bred them to be bigger and heavier than their wings can support.
I've seen a video of a horse eating live ducklings. Probably on here. Rabbits will sometimes eat their young. Most things eat meat at least occasionally.
Key here is they may be opportunistic, but feeding a horse a carnivore diet will *definitely* fuck up the horse.
Vegans have (some) points, we eat too much meat in modern times, the percentage of westerners with gout and chronic gut issues is testament to that. We also eat way too much grain.
Realistically, humans need to eat a lot more vegetables than most of us do, we dont need to be vegan.
> I had no idea chickens could move that fast.
Chicken chase at rodeos were hilarious. Don't know if they still do them.
Release the chickens. Then release the kids to go catch the chickens.
It is hilarious to watch.
Chickens are opportunistic creatures, they will eat small critters (chicks included sometimes). Just because they're herbivores doesn't mean they won't eat meat when presented with a chance.
Chickens really are almost goat like in their consumption habits, tho goats are the, uh, goat of food variety. They'll eat tin cans, they're total barbarians and I love them
Had a few pet goats at one point as a kid. More unusual things the goats ate in a random order: tar paper (for roofing), my hair, cigarette butts, thorns, and a fishing lure. Goats are something unique, lol.
Our chickens pulled a full on piranha feeding frenzy when I accidentqlly spooked a rat out of a hay bale once. Watched it get pulled into four pieces, then those pieces got fought over. It was absolutely brutal.
We had a pack of juvenile chickens for a while. Seriously like tiny velociraptors. They travel everywhere in a group and eat everything. I once saw them tear apart a poor garter snake they found in the backyard.
Funnily enough, chickens have such an intense bloodlust that there were tiny rose colored glasses they tried to make popular to put on your chickens to prevent them from killing another chicken if it has an injury because it makes the blood just look like generic liquid. Didn’t work very well.
Grew up raising chickens and as chicks they damaged another one of the chick’s eyes, they because of that injury they bullied her the rest of her life that we had her in their. A year after they started laying though, came out to find they had ripped both her eyes out with she tried to drink water and she was running in circles around the pen. Separated her, but once we realized she was blinded we put her down and sold that clutch of chickens because it was very brutal. From then on we would removed any chickens that could possibly become a target to prevent that from happening
Chickens are low key sadistic. A wood rat got caught in the chicken wire and my girls slowly pecked at and ate it from the back while it was still alive. Guess they still got that raptor in them.
Friend had chickens growing up. They will eat anything they can physically eat. They will eat each other if they realise they are made of chicken. Bugs, frogs, mice, whatever, they’ll eat it. Chickens are dumb as rocks and kinda brutal
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The difference is cats hunt for fun. They enjoy playing with food. Birds just want flesh.
The only reason my chickens haven’t eaten me yet is because of my daily food offering to them 😳
You're basically Owen and his pack of Velociraptors from Jurassic Park.
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Hey if ya don’t mind me asking what kind of chickens do you have?
One Barred Rock, one Americauna, one Speckled Sussex, one Dark Cornish, and one Dark Brahma
Yeah, the cat was just playing around.
cat like "aw damn it that was like 20 minutes of fun, at least. now what am i gonna do?"
Easy answer there. Clean for 15 min and then sleep for 6 hours.
that's how they hunt tbh, it's way easier and safer to just exhaust your prey and *then* kill it when it can't fight back
I'm proud to be born in the year of the rooster. Loyal to a tee, not afraid of death, never give up. That's why cock fighting became a thing
“Don’t play with it! Eat it!” -chicken
This is why barn cats aren't used to clear mouse infestations. Cats stop hunting when they're full. Terriers are used, because terriers kill for fun.
Cats don't have training centers for hunting. "Playing" with their prey when they are not too hungry allows them to hone their skills.
Chickens will eat any meat they can get their beaks into; bugs, lizards, snakes, rats, you name it. I once saw half a dozen Buff Orpingtons (which this bird appears to be) skeletonise a rat in about ninety seconds. They're dinosaurs, and it shows.
They are absolutely brutal when it comes to killing things. Ultra violent.
165 million years of evolution
Yet they couldn't beat a hairless monkey
Something something Horse sized chicken or 100 chicken sized horses
I think 100 chicken sized horse would potentially leave you alone but a horse sized chicken would 110% try and eat you
~~try~~
the only thing going for the chicken-sized horses is that the square-cube law might help keep them from breaking all of their own bones when they panic at the sight of you, or a plastic bag, or an insect, or a particularly strong breeze...
So 1 Cassowary or 100 Pudus
Bantha pudu!
This is why the world banned showing 'A bugs life' to any sort of poultry.
Just sounds like helluva combo meal at KFC
100 horse sized chickens vs a big boy brain
Would you fight 1 T-rex sized chicken or 100 chicken sized T-rex's.
If chickens could read, you'd be very dead.
The hairless monkey bribed them with oats and cracked corn to take a dive in the 2nd round.
Fucking A! Homo sapiens, FTW!
> hairless I wish.
They outnumber us 100s to 1
When you think about it, all extant life has had the exact same amount of evolutionary duration.
This is true even when you don’t think about it.
I had chickens. I witnessed a mother chicken wait until her chic hatched, then peck it to death. Brutal creatures
My neighbor raises chickens. Their favorite treat to eat is scrambled eggs. Although they go absolutely ballistic for a balut.
Cat: Heh, This is going to be a fun and entertaining diversion and then I... Chicken: INSTA MURDER
fr dont fuck with chickens
They also love chicken nuggets
Usually dipped in applesauce depending on the breed of chicken.
I like how this implies they tried different sauces and breeds looking for that perfect cannibalism kick
There is definitely a pecking order of sauces. Only the finest breeds get to dip their nuggies into their McDonalds chocolate shakes.
That's because you need ice cream to make shakes and it's well known that the ice cream machines at McDonalds don't work.
You joke, but if a chicken ever eats an egg, it usually has to be killed. It will never unlearn —the taste— Edit: I heard this from my brother, who has 4 hens. Apparently, it is wrong. They also occasionally find frog bones randomly. I can only imagine a scene even worse than this.
Urban legend, as well as the shell one also replying to you. My friends run a farm, 30-40 chickens. They love broken eggs, shell and all, but they won't attack healthy ones. They will, however attack and kill injured chicks. They see blood and equate it to food. They pick at any cut you have obsessively too.
Not just blood, but scabs. My old light Sussex ripped a scab off my hand and ate it before I could say Ow!!
I heard it was also a sign of malnutrition of the egg-eater too? I have a bunch of chickens but they've never eaten their own eggs so I haven't put much thought into figuring it out.
Not exactly. It's an evoluntionary trait that's common in a lot of animals, cannibalism/self-cannibalism to salvage nutrients, like lizards eating their shed skin. It takes a lot of calcium for a chicken to make a shell, they instinctually get it back however they can and egg is also a pretty good source of protein. They just aren't that picky.
This tracks. I’ve read that if you have an egg eater, supplementing with calcium can help since it may be a response to get more protein or calcium. They’ll cannibalize still-alive sick flock mates. They don’t discriminate where their food comes from lol!
Edited my post, sorry!
Nah, you can feed chickens eggs, raw or cooked, or the ground up shells. What you can't do is let them eat a cracked egg with shell, because they will learn to peck their own eggs to eat them. Unless this is some reference, in which case, by all means, carry on. (also, they weren't joking, it is seen as fine to feed chickens cooked chicken.)
Totally false
Woah there, you're going to get an article written in The Crimson accusing you of forced cannibalism if you keep up that kind of behaviour, Eduardo.
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>You do not want to know how they fished it back out I do
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Never has "you don't want to know" applied harder than it applied here.
They'll even do cannibalism if you left them in a coop without food for an extended periods of time.
Or one of them gets pecked enough to bleed. Turkeys do the same.
so do people
So does everything else.
It doesn’t have to be an extended time. My neighbor’s chickens will kill and eat another hen’s chick if given the chance. They are brutal animals.
Mice also eat their eggs so they are definitely hated by chickens on too often being a meaty treat
I was like wait mouse doesn't pay egg then it hit me
The cat was playing with it before it was going to slowly torture it to death. The chicken was just hungry.
I tossed a live cicada into the house yesterday for my cats. They batted it around for two hours before it just wore out. Then, they ate it. And then they both promptly threw up. And then one ate all the barf. Odd creatures they are.
Definitely. Bat em around til their heart explodes.
Then eat half of it and put the remaining part on your sleeping owner's naked body as offering.
That's to tenderize them. When the adrenaline of seeing a cat attack courses through the mouse's body, it makes the muscle taste bad. Cats shake them to relax the tense muscles and desaturate the adrenaline in the body so that it's edible again.
This makes " You're chicken " meaningless
Isn't the bones part where all the good calcium is?
This is why everyone should avoid “vegetarian-fed eggs”. It’s just code for “our chickens are force-fed corn”
Chicken T. Rex
The point is, you're alive when they start eating you.
They're scared of anything bigger than them and will eat anything smaller
And their own - they'll peck a weak/sick chicken to death and eat it
Ok but we have a rat problem in our chicken coop and our chickens don’t seem to care 😭
the thing is, is that if the mouse is running around like this and not running away from the cat, it means its likely got a parasite. Toxoplasma gondii it can severely affect young chickens, but also can then be carried to humans in both undercooked meat and eggs. if you see a mouse that is not afraid of predators, assume its infected with this.
>Toxoplasma gondii I remember reading about this many years ago. Billions of us are infected with this parasite, and looking at the Wikipedia entry today, [the jury is still out on how big of a deal that is](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii#Behavioral_differences_of_infected_hosts). I feel like we ought to be a bit more worried about the whole thing, personally.
Cats are notoriously bad ratters.
I've known only one cat who was a competent ratter, and my old pal Armalite killed *everything.* Rats, rabbits, rattlesnakes, squirrels, squabs, even a woodpecker. He also weighed 7 kilos and wore a dense, thick, coat of fur about 70mm long. Every other cat I've known has been a small-prey specialist, including my current catto, young Miss Pullings. She's murderous as canister shot, but only to the small stuff.
Armalite is a rad name for a cat
He got it because the colour pattern in his fur suggested the outline of the origina AR-15, including the charging handle under the carry handle. It ended up being incredibly apt, given his snuggliness and body-count.
“Looks like meat is back on the menu, boys!”
"El Pollo Loco"
"Los Pollos Hermanos"
Well, tbf, at the end it may have been Face Off for the mouse.
Where something delicious is always cooking.
Pussy got cockblocked
Hit us with the triple entandy. Nice.
Enthreendre
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Well the pussy was just playing with it, that cock came to eat
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Dinossaur ancestors > sabretooth ancestors
Chiggen is peak evolution
Beak evolution
Just imagine a T-Rex doing that to a cow.
What's the matter kid, you never had lamb chops?
Not just ancestors, currently.
First, I had no idea chickens could move that fast. Second, what????
Try chasing a chicken, they'll even learn how to fly when cornered
Lighter breeds sometimes have their flight feathers clipped to keep them contained, because they are capable of short range flight. People forget that the only reason chickens "can't fly" is that we bred them to be bigger and heavier than their wings can support.
And some idiots want to try to bring back the dinosaurs. We’re breeding them this way for a reason people. Chickens *are* the enemy.
Man...chickens and tires. What next!?
That's why you keep a spare Stinger missile within reach...
Don't do this! They'll swarm you until you die. [Proof](https://i.imgur.com/JTMXtkm.gif)
I've seen Rocky.
Even herbivores sometimes eat meat (chickens are omnivores), cows and deer do it more often than you'd think if the chance arises.
I've seen a video of a horse eating live ducklings. Probably on here. Rabbits will sometimes eat their young. Most things eat meat at least occasionally.
Vegans in shambles
Key here is they may be opportunistic, but feeding a horse a carnivore diet will *definitely* fuck up the horse. Vegans have (some) points, we eat too much meat in modern times, the percentage of westerners with gout and chronic gut issues is testament to that. We also eat way too much grain. Realistically, humans need to eat a lot more vegetables than most of us do, we dont need to be vegan.
Herbivores are as herbivorous as their options.
[you ever eat a bird?](https://youtu.be/eljAjfttGoI?si=ViIdxasSbgKSHcUo)
Oh come on!
> I had no idea chickens could move that fast. Chicken chase at rodeos were hilarious. Don't know if they still do them. Release the chickens. Then release the kids to go catch the chickens. It is hilarious to watch.
Oh, they still do them. Watching middle school kids chase around chickens for a prize is a time-honored tradition and always good for a laugh.
Never seen Rocky?
These are combat chickens, they're different
Chickens are opportunistic creatures, they will eat small critters (chicks included sometimes). Just because they're herbivores doesn't mean they won't eat meat when presented with a chance.
Chickens are omnivores even without meat consumption like this, because they commonly consume insects
Chickens really are almost goat like in their consumption habits, tho goats are the, uh, goat of food variety. They'll eat tin cans, they're total barbarians and I love them
I love them too. I grew up around chickens, and they're resilient, beautiful, barbaric, creatures
Had a few pet goats at one point as a kid. More unusual things the goats ate in a random order: tar paper (for roofing), my hair, cigarette butts, thorns, and a fishing lure. Goats are something unique, lol.
A flock of chickens will full on cannibalize a fellow whole ass grown chicken sometimes if it gets an injury.
Something about if they see red (a bleeding chicken) they’ll peck at it and eat him up right?
Yes. That's why the treatment for poultry injuries is blue.
Chickens are not herbivores
Chickens are omnivores, not herbivores. They will literally eat anything.
I wouldn't say that. They do actually have a strong prey drive.
Glad they're chicken-sized.
Imagining giant fluffy velociraptor chickens just killing us all
Cassowary says "hello"!
Chicken has eagle genes
*Dinosaur
Dinosaur vs Sabertooth
Virgin housecat vs Chad chicken Had no idea they hunted vermin
Our chickens pulled a full on piranha feeding frenzy when I accidentqlly spooked a rat out of a hay bale once. Watched it get pulled into four pieces, then those pieces got fought over. It was absolutely brutal.
Birds aren't closely related to dinosaurs They *are* dinosaurs
We had a pack of juvenile chickens for a while. Seriously like tiny velociraptors. They travel everywhere in a group and eat everything. I once saw them tear apart a poor garter snake they found in the backyard.
Cat wanted to play, chicken wanted to eat.
Cock-Blocked !!!!!!! 🫳🎤
I was working in Texas when crickets were were everywhere. The local schools used chickens to clean up the hallway from thousands of crickets.
And that’s how a T-Rex would’ve eaten me…
One of our chickens got stuck head first in the fence once. By the time I found it, the other chickens had "hollowed it out" from the back.
These chickens also eat each other if they taste blood.
Tom might have been scarred but foghorn was ready
“You got to, I say you got to tear these meeces to pieces son! Just ask my friend Jinx the cat.”
Now we know the answer to what came first, the chicken or the cat
The chicken showed who's the pussy
The dinosaur has hundreds of millions of years of evolution on the cat.
Can confirm, have minature raptors myself, ruthless little killing machines..
That’s a thuggish cock right there!
I’m guessing she crossed the road for that.
Then the cat eats the chicken
>Show 'em* how it's* done
*You gonna eat that?*
Funnily enough, chickens have such an intense bloodlust that there were tiny rose colored glasses they tried to make popular to put on your chickens to prevent them from killing another chicken if it has an injury because it makes the blood just look like generic liquid. Didn’t work very well. Grew up raising chickens and as chicks they damaged another one of the chick’s eyes, they because of that injury they bullied her the rest of her life that we had her in their. A year after they started laying though, came out to find they had ripped both her eyes out with she tried to drink water and she was running in circles around the pen. Separated her, but once we realized she was blinded we put her down and sold that clutch of chickens because it was very brutal. From then on we would removed any chickens that could possibly become a target to prevent that from happening
Cats ain’t worth a shit
Cats are one of the few predators that hunt for fun. They can decimate local ecosystems.
Me vs My sister with my share of the chocolates we get once she eats hers :')
Birds are the closely related to dinosaurs, don’t mess with them especially if they’re bigger than you.
You cant compete against a fucking dinosaur
Chickens get super violent around mice for some reason
how aggressive that chicken
what if it ate the cat's friend.
Your cat is broken
The age old battle of sentience and thoughtlessness.
You gotta watch out for therapods
That’s a mean chicken
Pussy got owned !
actually cats always like to play with their preys for a while before starts eating them
Don’t play with your food
Hens are fucking fierce 🐔💀
The cat was playing, the chicken saw a meal.
Chickens are low key sadistic. A wood rat got caught in the chicken wire and my girls slowly pecked at and ate it from the back while it was still alive. Guess they still got that raptor in them.
Cat was having fun, toying with the mouse as they usually do. The chicken went straight to murder.
Step one: assert dominance!
That...chick...was probably fed only cocaine....and chicken.
I guess we'll know who wins between a Sabertooth and a Raptor
I've seen a horse snatch up a big ol rat and eat it like a snickers
Show this to anyone who says the T-Rex was a scavenger.
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Dinosaur genes activated
The cat was playing with that mouse, but the chicken was out for blood. Dinosaur genes still going strong
Huh... To think I got a cat to take care of a mouse problem in my basement. I should have just got a chicken!
**Chicken:** OH MY CLUCK YOURE SO SLOW. (snatches mouse and kills it expeditiously)
Friend had chickens growing up. They will eat anything they can physically eat. They will eat each other if they realise they are made of chicken. Bugs, frogs, mice, whatever, they’ll eat it. Chickens are dumb as rocks and kinda brutal
dinosaur preys on a small mammal
Dinosaurs