r/interestingasfuck Jul 21 '21

Chicken with genetic defect /r/ALL

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u/SgtXD357 Jul 21 '21

Yea I want to see this chick in a month or two grown up

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u/Metatart Jul 21 '21

you can google four-legged chicken, there are quite a few instances

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u/optimatez Jul 21 '21

I grew up on a chicken farm. Chickens with extra legs are common, about 1 out of every 100k. They get pecked to death by the other chickens within the first day or two.

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u/icetraytran Jul 21 '21

Wow why do all the other chicks gang up on the 4 legger?

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u/Fickle_Excitement_60 Jul 21 '21

Bc different

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u/Stormfly Jul 21 '21

I'm not using this to justify racism, sexism, and other negative human traits but I think this should make it clear to people that this is an incredibly natural behaviour.

Treating people differently because they look or act differently than you do is incredibly natural and while I support efforts to overcome it, I do think it's (unfortunately) fairly natural.

Many people claim it's taught and while certain aspects 100% are, I also don't think that simply judging others for being different is taught.

Many people say it's fairly basic and simply boils down to survival traits based around quickly identifying who is "us" and who is "they".

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u/SychoShadows Jul 21 '21

There’s also a natural gang mentality imo. The quickness that young children with join in on something usually they recognize as bad is astonishing.

Source: former costumed character.

But this translates to adulthood if not handled properly and even then can be pressured in people trying to fit in or survive.

The war on hate and violence is an uphill battle for sure.

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u/Momofashow Jul 21 '21

There’s been a lot of research on this subject. Implicit biases are something that we have to work at overcoming. https://www.vox.com/2014/12/26/7443979/racism-implicit-racial-bias

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u/underscorewarrior Jul 21 '21

In this instance it’s one different individual tho. I don’t see anything that says “white chickens attack all the brown chickens” lmao

It’s a better metaphor for someone with a disability getting picked on than for general racism, imo

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u/2OP4me Jul 21 '21

Chickens have huge number of offspring, killing off the genetically off ones is probably a method to maintain genetic health in the group.

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u/FoxFourTwo Jul 21 '21

It's okay when animals do it apparently

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u/Work-Musician9000 Jul 21 '21 edited Jul 21 '21

Animals do a ton of incredibly fucked up shit: rape, pleasure killing, genocide, torture, infanticide, parasitism etc. Nature is absolutely uncaring and brutal. "Morality" doesn't exist to animals.

If you want to do something in nature and your strength permits you just do it. There are no morals. Humans made up morality as a way of convincing ourselves we live in a "just" world when we do not. It's an artificial set of constraints that we all agree to not do "X" because we don't want "X" done to us. So it's not "okay" as much as "it happens" because animals don't have that social contract.

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u/day_dreaming- Jul 21 '21

Well, morality builds probably on empathy which can be seen in animals. They did tests on mice and came to the result that they have empathy. Chicken are pretty ruthless though.

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u/Fuck_this_place Jul 21 '21

Little Chitler

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u/Iihatepineapplepizza Jul 21 '21

hopefully no one genuinely believes this lol

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u/blue-mooner Jul 21 '21 edited Jul 21 '21

Many did in the US and Germany. Those sentiments probably still exist, just less vocally than before.

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u/Saucepanmagician Jul 21 '21

Hitler: See? Why can't I do it then?

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u/phantom56657 Jul 21 '21

Chickens are just mean to each other. Ever heard the phrase "pecking order"? Refers to social structures where the people on the bottom get bullied. The phrase is based on chicken's social tendencies.

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u/AntiMatterAMA Jul 21 '21

okay but the alpha male thingy is based on the idea that there's an alpha male in a wolf pack - which has since proven to be a misunderstanding. So I'd not rely on that information.

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u/optimatez Jul 21 '21

Who knows. They gather around the odd chicken and start pecking the extra leg over and over and it eventually dies. Truthfully when the chickens are delivered we tend to cull the chicken with extra legs before it gets to the others to save it some misery.

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u/CakesStolen Jul 21 '21

Why not look after it separately? I understand that it might not be at all financially viable or efficient, but a pet 4-legged chicken would be fucking awesome imo

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u/optimatez Jul 21 '21 edited Jul 21 '21

We got 100k chickens at a time and stored them in big houses that held 20k chickens. Not really any infrastructure for individual chicken care. My dad said they died young anyway even if they didn't get pecked to death, but he may have just been saying that to spare my feelings. I did once get a chicken that was black and I liked him because he stood out. My parents said I could keep him when the time to sell the chickens came but not at the house. I let him go free so he could live around the farm and such. The next morning there was a pile of black feathers and no chicken. And that's how I learned about the circle of life.

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u/icetraytran Jul 21 '21

You should do an AMA

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u/CakesStolen Jul 21 '21

100000 chickens is a shit ton of chickens, no wonder you didn't keep it!

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u/monsieur_bear Jul 21 '21

Why would your dad do that to it?!

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u/optimatez Jul 21 '21

it was a coyote/fox/skunk/etc lol.

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u/Nofacing Jul 21 '21

Reminds me of a story of my dad and his pet deer. But he came home one day and it was his pet dinner.

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u/AntiMatterAMA Jul 21 '21

they identified and removed the one with the biggest threat level - being a fucking bird centaur thing gives you the advantage of being cool as fuck.