▲ 612 ▼ "Chickens figure out enshittification" (thelemmy.club) submitted 5 months ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world 31 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44261915
[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago (2 children) Well but naturally, if you got a hen just laying eggs, what will happen if nobody picked the eggs? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago* (1 child) Parthenogenesis is natural, an adaptation for adverse conditions, typically caused by a specific gene (or genes perhaps, the research is pretty young yet). If it happens and they tend their nest like they want to, it’ll hatch and be female. Most chickens won’t produce self-fertile eggs at all, and those that can don’t always produce fertile eggs either by my understanding, so most of them will just be wasted. But if you get a specific breed that’s known for it the chances are much higher. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 5 months ago (1 child) Yeah that's my point. Only in rare occurrences will they be actual chickens, most of the time, they're going to waste permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago I certainly didn’t mean to imply anything else, it’s a rare gene after all, just that there are an absolute ton of eggs produced daily and I bet if you were to incubate all of them you’d have a lot more fertile than you’d think. Not a lot of people out there incubating eggs (or letting their chickens do it) from cock-free flocks to see what happens, you know? permalink fedilink source parent [–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago They eat them. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago* (1 child) Parthenogenesis is natural, an adaptation for adverse conditions, typically caused by a specific gene (or genes perhaps, the research is pretty young yet). If it happens and they tend their nest like they want to, it’ll hatch and be female. Most chickens won’t produce self-fertile eggs at all, and those that can don’t always produce fertile eggs either by my understanding, so most of them will just be wasted. But if you get a specific breed that’s known for it the chances are much higher. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 5 months ago (1 child) Yeah that's my point. Only in rare occurrences will they be actual chickens, most of the time, they're going to waste permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago I certainly didn’t mean to imply anything else, it’s a rare gene after all, just that there are an absolute ton of eggs produced daily and I bet if you were to incubate all of them you’d have a lot more fertile than you’d think. Not a lot of people out there incubating eggs (or letting their chickens do it) from cock-free flocks to see what happens, you know? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 5 months ago (1 child) Yeah that's my point. Only in rare occurrences will they be actual chickens, most of the time, they're going to waste permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago I certainly didn’t mean to imply anything else, it’s a rare gene after all, just that there are an absolute ton of eggs produced daily and I bet if you were to incubate all of them you’d have a lot more fertile than you’d think. Not a lot of people out there incubating eggs (or letting their chickens do it) from cock-free flocks to see what happens, you know? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago I certainly didn’t mean to imply anything else, it’s a rare gene after all, just that there are an absolute ton of eggs produced daily and I bet if you were to incubate all of them you’d have a lot more fertile than you’d think. Not a lot of people out there incubating eggs (or letting their chickens do it) from cock-free flocks to see what happens, you know? permalink fedilink source parent
