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[–] 33 points 5 months ago (4 children)

chickens don't give out free eggs, we take them from them by force and we don't really ask.

it as if slave-catcher catching people to sell them to slavery commented on the topic with "hey, free people!"

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  • [+] 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    If you let chickens be in charge of their own eggs they will stop laying and try to raise their children.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Well don't you need the roster to make them in to baby chickens?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Not necessarily, no. Chickens are capable of parthenogenesis, or reproduction without a male, tho it’s fairly rare.

    It would probably happen a lot more if we tried incubating all the unfertilized eggs we have them produce every day, but they take longer to mature and are smaller on average than chickens born from sexual reproduction, so it’s not really worth pushing for from a husbandry standpoint.

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  • [–] 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?

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  • [–] 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.

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  • [–] 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

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  • [–] 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?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Oh, I thought we give them food and security from wildlife in return

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    are you being sarcastic, or do you mean it? because if you mean it, oh boy, do i have bad news for you.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    More like a bad joke, but there is some truth to it depending on conditions (Ie. Free range chickens), other than that we're the predators, so obviously it's very ironic to say we're protecting them

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

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  • [+] 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Goes hand in hand with collectibles. Then random surprises inside the egg, like a loot box.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    We could sell hats for the eggs?

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)
    • Shovel AI features into eggs and layoff chickens to combat declining sales (due to enshittification) with investor interest
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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Egg ai hallucinations...

    • extra shells
    • infinite shells
    • shotgun shells
    • infinite nesting egg recursions
    • hard boiling a Kinder Surprise egg will give a yellow paintball inside
    • you can substitute 1 raw egg for a Cadbury egg
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    [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I don’t like it, but I get it

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    [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    No problem, I always thought eggs were kinda shit anyways. They can keep them

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    No cookies?

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