• Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    47
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      1 year ago

      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.

        • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          6
          ·
          1 year 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.

    • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      1 year 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.

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year 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.

      • Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        12
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        1 year 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.

  • Astro Mike
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    47
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    My takeaway from this is that T-Rex probably tasted delicious when breaded and deep fried.

    • PopcornPrincess
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      22
      ·
      1 year ago

      Their tiny t-rex arms were probably the chicken wings of their time. Forbidden wings…🤤

      • IMALlama
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        From a farming perspective, herbavores require less input to raise.

        Hypothetical example: to raise one herbivore you need an input of 3 grains. If your carnivore requires more than one herbivore’s worth of input you’re looking at needing more grain, plus having to rear the herbivore(s).

        I don’t know if there are flavor implications between the two and if those differences would decrease if both were farmed.

        • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          I think you’re right.

          I was thinking more like in ocean food chains, where mercury accumulates as you move further up the food chain.

          … but in the hunter gatherer sense, of course we eat more ibex or buffalo than we do lion or cougar, because there are quite simply far fewer of the latter wandering around on the plains. Which is pretty much what you said just arranged in a different way.

  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    1 year ago

    Heh. I was outside this morning, having a little hippie speedball, listening to the birds chirp.

    There were a lot out this morning. It was a symphony. Tons of calls.

    Then I realized how wild it must’ve sounded here 70 million years ago.

  • TheControlled
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    Why does that T-Rex look like it’s from the Hellraiser dimension?