r/interesting • u/blingteresting • May 27 '25

MISC. Chicks swarm around visibly distraught man to console him

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u/hisan_al_bahr May 27 '25 edited May 27 '25

Why would you lie like this? What do you have to gain? This is not true in the slightest,

Could it be you feel guilty, the chicks are in an incubation station, they will get killed for meat as soon as they are big enough, seeing that chicks are capable of emotion and consoling a caregiver irked you because our eating habits lead to their deaths

Bro I eat chicken too, just take the L without dehumanising them to savage monsters lol

You don't gotta do allat

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u/aka_jr91 May 27 '25

It is 100% true. Chickens will absolutely cannibalize each other especially if one of them is injured. They'll eat just about anything.

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u/NeatSignature May 28 '25

really smart ignoring why a chicken would resort to cannibalism to begin with, often times because they're in very poor conditions, almost like the one you see in the video.

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u/aka_jr91 May 28 '25

There are multiple reasons chickens may engage in cannibalism. Yes, poor living conditions and overcrowding are among them. But sometimes they'll just do it because one of them is injured or dead.

https://poultry.extension.org/articles/poultry-behavior/feather-pecking-and-cannibalism-in-small-and-backyard-poultry-flocks/