From the that's just wrong files... My chickens like to eat chicken nuggets

my roosters. it just seemed too perfect of a circle not to close it.

cannibalistic?

There were loving it though...

If you have a flock of chickens and one of them is injured even slightly...you have to segregate it out or the others will kill it and eat it. If there are too many chicks and not enough resources, hens will try to kill and eat other hens' chicks to reduce competition for resources for their own chicks.

(The neighbors growing up had chickens. Grandpa had sheep. We used to trade wool and sheep dairy for eggs.)

behavior. I've seen the pecking of injured birds in big chicken houses, but was told that the other chickens were responding to the "foreign" object on the other bird. Our flock was just a free range farm flock. Maybe that's the difference.

Apparently it can be common in some flocks and non-existent in others, suggesting it may be a learned behavior and/or rooted in the protein-availability of the area the flock is in.

http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/range556/appl_behave/projects/chicken_cannibalism.html

I was raised around chickens also and I never saw that behavior. I suspect it's mostly limited to chickens that aren't allowed to freely roam and scavenge for bugs and worms.

but they are still young... probably craving protein to grow.

I was surprised when someone dropped an egg and the chickens came running to peck up the spilled contents.

we're pointing at you.

running directly towards you.... yikes

"Nobody I know."

She doesn't like turkey. Not all fowl is fair. BTW I agree with her choice.

She loves a turkey drum stick because she can spend the day reducing it to its component atoms.

I felt guilty bringing home an avocado. We ate it out on the deck so she wouldn't feel left out.

We also have an Umbrella Cockatoo (Chloe) who won't eat any human food.
She'll occasionally taste peanut butter.

Gave Frodo a chip last night, tomato and basil.
She decided that after two I was not being quick enough with my treats. Soooo
She then picked up her treat cup that had noodles from soup and proceeded to dump it on my head and shoulders. Now I ask you, is that not typical parrot behavior.:
rofl:

Of course mine would have ignored people food anyway. She always has to this point.

Dogs have masters
Cats have staff
Parrots have serfs

Good read the Parrot Who Owns Me.

by the chickens playing rugby with the nugget than anything else...

Did they split off into teams?

Wear little chicken jerseys?

Do chickens cheat when they play rugby?

Was there general chicken violence after one team won or lost?




PS...a few years ago when I had geese, the female became calcium deficient after laying a bunch of eggs. She got to the point where she could hardly walk, and I filled a small wagon with water so she wouldn't have to stand, then fed her dandelion greens and crushed eggshells. She recovered in just a few days.

We haven't had mice in the llama and goat lodge since the chickens moved in. Also, the chickens are now riding the goats around the compound like they're gauchos or something.