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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
534
u/SgtXD357 Jul 21 '21
Yea I want to see this chick in a month or two grown up