Post AP6SbNSbsEj6Y7OjWS by Basileuscomic@leafposter.club
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(DIR) Post #AP6FkIOelsew2wTGme by Tepid_Tapir@poa.st
2022-10-30T17:30:00.602097Z
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Let me paint a spooky story for you.It was early fall at a farmer's chicken coop. Me and a few other students were receiving a lecture and hands-on exam with this farmer's chickens. Everything looked decent, the coop was a little dirty but no glaring issues.The birds in question were a mix of Rhode Island Reds and 'some type of meat bird'. Rhodie part was easy to tell, but something was off about their appearance. A bit bigger? A bit more puffed out maybe?We all are instructed to grab one, which in itself was it's own feat. We're chasing these birds and I'm noticing they are dropping small, dark brown roundish things as they are fleeing from us. Fairy eggs maybe? (Eggs that are a 'glitch', much smaller than normal and missing yolk). I step in one, and look under my boot - it's a straight turd. These birds were dropping straight up hard poop like a dog would.Once we finally get the birds in our hands, they instantly begin all prolapsing their cloacas. With our under-the-arm hold, their insides are getting our arms and torsos bloodied. Some thick chunks of tissue or blood clots are falling out of these chicken's prolapses, and other chickens begin to swarm us eating the bloodied bits and pecking our shins for more.We leave the coop to continue our exams without harassment. We're instructed to slowly invert our birds slightly fir a blood draw. Once their heads are below their crops, brown liquid vomit starts spewing from them like open faucets, only stopping once we put their heads right-side up again. After the torment, we're instructed to put the birds back. Instantly, they get mogged by the unmolested chickens pecking at their prolapsed cloacas, tearing off fleshy bits while their victims attempt to run away in vain.And that is why I don't think I'll ever own chickens.
(DIR) Post #AP6FyluZpgArdhIvZY by TurboNormie@poa.st
2022-10-30T17:32:37.250074Z
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@Tepid_Tapir The poultry business is a nasty one.
(DIR) Post #AP6H4JGfLGgYUgqBns by nobullyplz@poa.st
2022-10-30T17:44:49.810882Z
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@TurboNormie @Tepid_Tapir One man sees a tragic tale of poorly maintained coops causing disease and bird cannibalism, another man sees a small recycling percentage avoiding a total loss from the dead birds :blobcatnauseated:
(DIR) Post #AP6HqkK23ehyIkVmTI by TurboNormie@poa.st
2022-10-30T17:53:34.952759Z
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@nobullyplz @Tepid_Tapir "Mmm yes, I can cut my feed costs by 1.2% this month as I've supplemented their diet with bloody, prolapsed chicken anus"
(DIR) Post #AP6I7EA6si1fTvjHtY by Basileuscomic@leafposter.club
2022-10-30T17:56:33.665305Z
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The meat birds are probably cornish cross. They call them “meat kings” where i am, which i find amusing
(DIR) Post #AP6JRuN7kuDQ8hF3qa by Tepid_Tapir@poa.st
2022-10-30T18:11:30.399669Z
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@TurboNormie This was actually a pretty modest hobby farm, they had maybe 20-30 chickens. These were just, extremely sick fuckin chickens lol It honestly really turned me off chickens, and I grew up with chickens 🤔
(DIR) Post #AP6JqvJtMuCuJoesds by Tepid_Tapir@poa.st
2022-10-30T18:16:01.602459Z
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@Basileuscomic The birds were all red, like Rhodies, but a tad bigger. Perhaps a cornish cross-cross? lolThe cornish cross are the ones that grow so big and so fast they develop issues if allowed to live past butcher age, right?
(DIR) Post #AP6K2FSKqK4pxI0XGS by IAMAL_PHARIUS@poa.st
2022-10-30T18:18:04.090877Z
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@Tepid_Tapir tapir doesnt understand what spooky means 😔
(DIR) Post #AP6KbgETHTPF8VPzAu by Tepid_Tapir@poa.st
2022-10-30T18:24:27.928242Z
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@IAMAL_PHARIUS I guess it's more spooky in like a SAW type setting and not an Amityville Horror type setting. But man if you were there, that whole scenario would send shivers down your spine.
(DIR) Post #AP6KlCmZd7Fih7uYF6 by Rayfield@poa.st
2022-10-30T18:26:12.031949Z
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@Tepid_Tapir @IAMAL_PHARIUS I'm going to think about this story every time I eat chicken for the next month. Now that's terror.
(DIR) Post #AP6L7iMctJyZ0uVXc0 by Tepid_Tapir@poa.st
2022-10-30T18:30:15.308972Z
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@Rayfield @IAMAL_PHARIUS I do deeply apologize for that. If it makes you feel any better, these particular birds were a cross between egg layers and meat birds to be some kind of dual purpose breed. Your actual meat birds often live a much more grim existence.
(DIR) Post #AP6LSbRho8VNdfqNou by Rayfield@poa.st
2022-10-30T18:34:02.536349Z
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@Tepid_Tapir @IAMAL_PHARIUS If I didn't want the truth I wouldn't be here. I hope I can get some of my own (For eggs) in the next year or two.
(DIR) Post #AP6SbNSbsEj6Y7OjWS by Basileuscomic@leafposter.club
2022-10-30T19:54:03.691749Z
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oh ok maybe i misunderstood. I had a rooster this past summer that was a mix and he was really BIG. I think a cross-crossYeh apparently they grow too fast and big for their anatomy so they don't move around much. 7 weeks to market? The wonders of selective breeding. Actually my rooster injured his leg in the first couple weeks I had him and he was limping around all over the place, then just recovered randomly.
(DIR) Post #AP6d9KclvKz78myqv2 by Tepid_Tapir@poa.st
2022-10-30T21:52:14.812551Z
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@Basileuscomic I was talking to one user on fedi that had a few pekin ducks - they are primarily meat ducks - and those ducks had issues walking and prone to leg injuries as well. They were not used for meat, they were pets. Its kinda sad some of these animals whose existence is so geared towards slaughter that they can't even live properly 😢
(DIR) Post #AP6xitdxiHrMyAm01Y by Tepid_Tapir@poa.st
2022-10-31T01:42:46.603982Z
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@Eiregoat @IAMAL_PHARIUS @Rayfield That's the thing, I never did find out wtf was wrong with them. Our professor wasn't sure. I asked some exotic bird vets and they were even puzzled. Occasionally birds will have hardened stools, but for several to have them is incredibly odd. Sometimes birds may have a full crop and have some 'spillage' but certainly not the extent that we saw which was like vomit. The chunks coming from the cloacas are still a mystery. I was told by the chicken instructor that chickens will prolapsed when stressed but I have yet to find evidence of this. 🐔
(DIR) Post #APVdNc1eGX6idBrMUy by Eiregoat@nicecrew.digital
2022-10-31T01:06:45.811676Z
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I'm hoping to do pastured poultry, with plenty of live insects in their feed, but if meat production involved THAT shit, keeping animals in dark enclosures their entire lives and breeding them to be spastic chicken nuggets, I think I'd just give up and go back to being vegetarian.Btw, what was wrong with the chickens in your original story? I'm guessing diet if their guts were that messed up. Or were they just inbred beyond all repair?