Thread 5026920

why are chicken the best bird? just look at them

>already born in survival mode
>don't need mom to feed them directly
>already fast as fuck one day after born
>mom will fight anything in order to protect them, other birds just fuck off if things get too dangerous
>can learn to swim
>can't fly but can glide for over a mile in the right conditions
>can cross roads.

there's literally no other bird this ready to live, they just don't conquer the world because they are too delicious

>>5026920 (OP)
> they are too delicious
Only with seasonings, breadcrumbs, or if it's marinated, cooked chicken on its own is bland as shit

>>5026920 (OP)
They only exist to be eaten by everything under the sun.

>>5027163
they are perfectly serviceable mid size predators, they will eat bugs, rodents, amphibians, lizards and snakes

>>5027458
>chicken
>mid sized predator
Maybe if you're an ant or a grasshopper. It's not eating rodents and snakes. Get a grip, buddy. Your chicken isn't a fucking T. Rex.

>>5027534
>It's not eating rodents and snakes
They will definitely eat chippies and mice.
Somebody here must have that webm of a cat chasing after a mouse and a chicken gets it first.

>>5027534
you hear "predator" and think "RAWR big teef scary dinosaur" because your mentally subnormal. it eats small animals, large animals eat it, so its a mid sized predator. im not glazing chickens, im describing shit ive seen irl.

>>5027576
This. You don't need to be at the tippy top of the food chain to be considered a predator. Sure chickens can easily become to prey to a good amount of creatures but they're hunters themselves as well.

>>5027534
They do eat small snakes like baby garters and ringnecks unfortunately. They also peck at toads. :(

>>5026920 (OP)
>can cross roads.

>>5027534
I have seen them eat mice, with violence.

>>5026920 (OP)
they were even hardier before industrial agriculture. tough little fuckers

>>5026921
Chicken used to be plenty flavorful by themselves until we got fast growing broiler breeds that grow to slaughtering weight within weeks.

>>5027534
they eat mice and small snakes

>>5028593
Is it the breed or what they are eating?

>>5027534
My uncle has a chicken farm and I saw one of his roosters kill a rat. That image has been stuck in my mind for over 20 years.

>>5028655
Combo of both. Most people do not know it, but they wouldn't like heritage breeds because the meat is tougher.

>>5028656
Howd it do it? Pecking? Kicking?

Snakes unironically get injured more by rats than chickens do hunting them.

>>5028684
you fucking muppet! of course snakes get injured more by rats because rats can live in the wild were snakes also live, meanwhile chickens are domestic animals who live secluded near humans in a coop were snakes don't live.

>>5026920 (OP)
Why do chickens cross roads?

>>5028720
cats can not compete

i have 10 chickens and while there was an initial pest problem since they came in from surrounding areas when they could smell the chicken feed, the chickens wiped out the local rodent population within a week. i have never seen a rodent since. it would take 20+ cats twice as long to kill that many mice and rats. and then you wouldn't have eggs, just toxoplasmosis.

>inb4 toxo gets in eggs
thats why you cook them. cats are kind of dirty and sooner or later you will unknowingly get fecal microparticles carrying toxo on your hands.

>>5028726
In my experience cats don't hunt much unless they're relatively desperate for food. They might look like they're hunting but they're just spying on a bird for fun. Then they go eat some trash from next door or meow at some random person until they get food

>>5028720
its always funny seeing the most goofy and dumpy looking animals you never expect becoming competent hunters once in a while. I distinctly remember seeing a tortoise snatch a small snake and dragged it down a burrow. I think it was some kind of box turtle.

>>5028726
Cat derangement syndrome

>>5028752
Most frogs and toads also fit this criteria of underdogs. They're slow, hopping blobs with giant mouths but can surprisingly catch a lot of things.

>>5026920 (OP)
Those are some moldy looking mcnuggets below her.

>>5028726
Chicken truth syndrome

>>5029534
Chad chickenpilled based dinobird predator grindset

Stare into the eyes of a chicken…

>>5028720
>Somewhere in heaven, a dinosaur is looking at this approvingly

>>5028593
This
>>5028655
The biggest nutritional lie is that food quality doesn't matter. High quality pasture fed egg yolks will be almost orange from all the vitamin A. Same with butter, it will be a deep yellow.