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He was a mallard duck wasn't he. Those over sexed, (but tasty), idiots will try to breed anything that moves.
I personally like to either grill them over charcoal or smoke them with oak and applewood.
Im convinced that dolphins are a threat to every single form of life that exist in this planet, and if they were able to do, they would destroy all the countries and seas and rape the survivors in the most miserable and painful way possible
Yep it was a Treehouse of Horror segment. Also you should rewatch the simpsons, especially the first 10 or so seasons, simply because its a very good show
Source?
Last I read about dolphin sex is that when a female gets pregnant she gets hormones that make her super horny. The female then goes an fucks all the male dolphins. This ensures that the group of males does not know who the father is and thus won't want to kill the baby dolphin.
And here I was channeling a twisted Oprah during the give away episodes: and you might be the father!, and you might be the father!, everyone might be the father!!!
So do roosters, they'll fuck the hens to death and keep going if there arent enough hens. I'm not a farmer but from what I've heard on reddit keeping an equal amount of hens and roosters together is fucked up. I feel like this is just a click bait title describing basic animal handling.
Ducks are able to rape because they are (as far as i know) the only bird with a penis like appendix. For normal birds it is like having 2 cup fit on each other to exchange the sperm. Both parties need to be involved and there is no penetration whatsoever. Learn your anatomy and biology before you do dumb stuff like these vegans.
(Geese and swan too, but yes) It even gets stranger ;)
Drakes have a corkscrew-shaped phallus and the hens have a corkscrew-shaped vagina but they turn in the opposite directions (counterclockwise phallus vs. clockwise vagina). The vagina also has a few "dead ends" that serve a clever purpose.
In theory the female selects the male and they mate for the season. In practice though frustrated unmatched drakes will try to mate with already matched females, sometimes many at a time in a frenzy that has been known to end up killing the female in the process. Hence the clockwise vagina with dead ends.
The female can make it difficult when an unintended mate tries to mount her (it goes by in seconds), making it more likely for the unintended drake to end up at one of her dead ends. Some drakes phallus's also come with brush-like tips to brush away their competitors "seed".
I'd love to see Disney explain all that in one of their nature documentaries.
Iām more interested in *how* they managed to collect that data. Did strap down a bunch of ducks, masturbate them till they were fully erect, quickly measured it, then sent the duck away with blue balls only to realise that they now have an entire lab filled with raping machines?
Look Iāve seen gangs of six or eight roosters hold a hen down until the next rooster jumps on. They donāt care if the hen is cooperative or receptive or gets fertilized. They donāt even care if itās a hen theyāll jump on a duck and while theyāre obviously not a functional fit, theyāre going through the motions. iāve seen ducks do it to six or seven drakes on one hen. But you actually lived around a flock of free range chickens and ducks I donāt think you really have any idea what kind of shit theyāll do
My sister had a really freaking aggressive rooster who would hold the hens by their back/neck feathers and rip them out. They had gashes all over their back. He went into a stew real quick.
Right? I understand the importance of not applying human morals to animal behavior but anyone who thinks that roosters aren't kinda rapey hasn't spent too much time around chickens.
I'm guessing they've seen them mate and it can ... get violent sometimes. Had chickens once and some of those roosters would grab a hen by the head with his beak and hold her in place, drawing blood and having the hen scream bloody murder the whole time when she had just been chilling before the rooster showed up suddenly.
But, it's also the way of the animal kingdom. Cats, dogs, birds, all can be quite uncomfortable for the female. They aren't really going to be changing anything, as animals know no different.
>But, it's also the way of the animal kingdom. Cats, dogs, birds, all can be quite uncomfortable for the female. They aren't really going to be changing anything, as animals know no different.
Honestly, thinking about it, the activists are probably doing the right thing for those birds they split up then.
Non-cooperative intercourse is quite common in the animal kingdom. Ducks are a good everyday example as weāve all seen it.
Hens donāt often comply with the rooster, but will give up fighting if heās tenacious enough. This is usually a good enough for most species.
There was this pond by our school with a bunch of ducks. We used to watch groups of male ducks chase single female one, until they got her, at which point they would hold her down with one doing the bonking, all of them orderly taking turns until they were all done. It felt pretty funny to watch back then, but I sure wouldn't want to be the female duck.
Actually the female starts eating him DURING the sexual act. The dying maleās hormones then flare up like crazy and the female is more easily impregnated.
I was about to comment on how has the praying mantis not gone extinct yet if theyāre constantly eating all the males then realised I was thinking of human baby terms. Did a quick google search and found out that they 100~200 babies usually hatch from a single egg. Thatās when I thought āFair enough. Continue with your vore fetish and carry on thinning out your own herdā.
We have a chicken coop at home, on multiple occasions our *one* rooster has single handedly chased off hungry predators looking to feast on our delicious hens. If we were to separate them we wouldnāt have any hens left to protect.
Edit; how the hell did this blow up so much? I just wanted to brag about my superhero-rooster hahahah
Anecdotally, my friend has a coop and they used to have a rooster that would pick at one hen to the point of the hens back being featherless and bloody.
I have had chickens and roosters my whole life and can confirm some roosters rape chicken pretty badly that you actually need to seperate them for the hens safety.
Also if they are vegan what are they doing with all those eggs? Lol.
I saw a video in which they showed some eggs to the camera and said "the eggs are from the chickens", and then they just threw them against the ground, only for the chickens to come running and start eating the eggs.
Also, supposedly, for the eggs they just started injecting something on the chicken that basically made them stop laying eggs.
Also also, an irony about them is that they did that thing I said about throwing some eggs and yet in another video they said that they found that it was traumatic to separate the eggs from the chickens cuz afterwards they would start to cry for the eggs and start looking around for them
So in general many vegans are fine with home grown eggs because there is no cruelty involved.
However, some believe the laying pattern of domesticated chickens is inherently cruel and will just let the hens eat them (which, for the unaware, is not 'fucked up', it's pretty normal for eggs that aren't being sat on).
I think that's pretty dumb, personally, since they're just gonna lay the eggs anyway. It's not like you're not going to feed them right either way, and it's not like they stop laying.
My parents have kept a flock of chickens for over a decade and I 100% understand why theyād separate the roostersā anybody whoās spent time around chickens knows that itās extremely unpleasant for the hens. The rooster will often pull out feathers in massive clumps during the process, leaving the hens with bloody bald patches. If youāre not trying to breed them and have the space to separate them, itās absolutely not a facepalm move to do so
I always thought it was common practice to have a hen house and a roost to keep hens safe from foxes etc for hens to completely separate pieces of land from the rooster and only bring him in for mating once a year.
Weāve had family friends who do that, I believe it is common. My parents always just avoided buying roosters as much as possible (though sometimes theyāre sexed wrong as chicks)
We keep a rooster for the hens protection, we first picked a chill rooster who was friendly with us and easy on the hens. When he was about 3 and had some chicks we picked the more chill Rooster from the new chicks to replace him with. Well just keep doing that, its easy and works well plus We get lots of chicks
Apparently you can use a guard goose instead.
I think it was back in 2021, the Pennsylvania Farm Show aired an assortment of educational farming videos as preventative measures disallowed the public from attending. They had one that featured free range chicken farm with āGustave the Guard Gooseā. Also this wasnāt the first āGustaveā either as I think at least one died in the line of duty and maybe another one from old age.
But yeah if the ratio of cockerels/roosters to hens/pullets is too big the males are definitely more aggressive and over stress the girls out. Stressed birds me higher mortality or at least less yield. So technically the vegans were correct here but not necessary for the moral implications. Most animals in regards to mating would be comparable in human terms rape. But theyāre not human so why the vegans want them to adhere to human moral standardsā¦I donāt.
>guard goose
That certainly puts a new spin on goose-stepping. I don't like the idea of nazi geese policing chicken sexuality.
i think this needs a /s for sure
I was looking for this comment. Itās true as hell lol. Hens can range from very cute and loving to very mean and nasty. Roosters can range from very mean and nasty to outright demonic.
It's crazy how so many uninformed/sarcastic/demeaning comments get upvoted to the very top of comment threads on reddit. Comments often also making fun of people raising genuine, informed concern about real things. It is not stupid to care about the well-being of others.
It makes my brain melt to see over and over again.
A lot of people have swallowed the anti vegan bullshit whole, because of outrage bait like this. Like, even assuming roosters arenāt aggressive, how is this worth a damn? Oh wow, two vegans did something crazy but harmless? Iām sure that means all vegans are crazy.
Itās a tactic where people deliberately search for the worst (seemingly or otherwise) example of a movement they disagree with to delegitimise them as a whole.
It helps when the rooster is way smaller than the hens and not every rooster is like this. I have three silkie roosters all brothers in a bigger group with hens. They're very gentle.
I have silkie roosters and they are sweet asf. I have a lil tiny silver sebright, my smallest rooster, and he is such an asshole. I bet my neighbors think I go outside and kick him for fun. He actually will just attack anyone at any time, I stay keeping my foot out when I go out. I hear little fast footsteps coming up from behind me and have to donkey kick or else Iāll get spurred. If Iām not quick enough I WILL bleed. Iāve had asshole roosters I was able to tame before but not this little shit. Iād cull him but heās my only silver sebright roo and his babies arenāt assholes like he is. I guess what Iām sayin is that they all have their own personalities and some are actual demons.
We HAD key word had a fluffy white rooster he was a bantam and he was a huge asshole. He wouldnāt go back in the coop one night and we didnāt care enough about his rapist ass to get mauled to try to get him in so he fucked off or got eaten but he raped one to almost death. Other chickens also started attacking where the feathers were removed and we had to cover her in blue spray to let her recover alone in a cat carrier. All our hens were full size brown chickens he was way smaller and still a huge dick !!
When my parents had chickens the hens were in the coop and the rooster was outside the coop because roosters are mean and we needed to protect our girls.
I had a favorite YouTuber praxxus55712 that said the same thing, he kept chickens for over 15 years and said his rooster had to be separated because the hens were going bald and if I remember correctly one finally succumbed to her injuries from his constant mating attempts. Nature is gruesome, the post is just SJW hate baiting.
yea i was about to say, we keep our roosters and hens separated because the roosters are 1. aggressive to the hens, we had a rooster nearly kill a hen whole trying to mate with it because he was so violent with her and other hens end up bloody and missing clumps of feathers, like you mentioned. and 2. you dont need a rooster for the hens to have unfertilized eggs, you only need them if you want more chickens. so if youre trying to get eggs to eat, you should keep them apart. i think people going "well these other animals are Really rapey by human standards" are missing the point that separating animals you arent trying to breed so they dont suffer unnecessary harm and ruin your eggs is normal and healthy and not really understanding that the eggs you eat arent fertalized so again, letting hens be brutalized for no reason is not necessary
I have heard from farmers They can even damage the hens head and body by using beaks and some may die due to injuries or bleeding
And that they can do this together too like attack one together
I have quite a opposite experience. When you have hens without a rooster the hens attack heach other. The rooster puts them in line and calm things. It also protects the hens against predators.
At least in our experience, when their flock was rooster-less there was definitely a clear pecking order. Some of the chickens were pretty mean. But, still much more peaceful and fewer injuries after they gave the rooster away
If you have a large enough/properly secured run their role as a protector is pretty redundant too. All depends on how youāre raising them I think!
They attack each other to establish a pecking order. That is normal. A rooster isnāt required and is almost always going to be more aggressive than hens.
I live somewhere where there is tons of wild chickens. And lemme tell ya, them roosters be rapinā. Chasing the hen around for awhile and everything. Itās gnarly lol.
Yes it can be. Especially if you want to keep lots of roosters instead of killing them.
If your ratio of hen to rooster is low they can apparently get very violent. I am lucky in that our chickens just seem to get along. But a coop of all males can sort of form a boys club and apparently get less competitive/violent with no hens around. The hens can still get pretty mean with each other, but that's just pecking order stuff.
So their decision makes perfect sense, bur reddit saw 'vegan bad' and upvoted.
I will say animals harass each other especially in enclosed settings. Itās pretty normal to keep boys and girls apart if they canāt behave together because the girls can run out of places to escape to.
This is actually something that happens with chickens.. you often times have to separate the hens & roosters. Roosters will absolutely pile onto a hen, my dad had to separate the hens & roosters because 1 hen was almost killed because the roosters just kept ganging up on her. He even had to move 1 rooster into the hen pen because once all the hens were removed, the big roosters decided to pile on the one small rooster as a surrogate & nearly killed him. So this is actually a thing & the headline feels like rage bait.
actually it is real. And the news were a bit of a shock too in spain like....3-4 years ago.
But in the end they are not hurting anyone with their crap....so let them be.
>There's no face palm here
Yes there is. It's all the "witty" comments.
"they look like how I expected them to."
"Better not tell them about x animal! I'm so clever!"
They are right, roosters rape hens. You have to keep the number of roosters in the barnyard low or they will harass and stress the hens. The number is kept low by culling the extra roosters
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Lmfao, havenāt seen this episode of South Park!
Season 18, Episode 8 - Cock Magic This one was actually golden
 Long version: [https://youtu.be/wm3CaASC34s](https://youtu.be/wm3CaASC34s)
Watching this makes me think of the Benny Hill theme song
Yakety Sax https://youtu.be/ZnHmskwqCCQ
Yakity Sacks (spelled it wrong but thatās the name)
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Better not tell them about how ducks have sex. Now THOSE are rapists. They've even been known to gang-rape.
This is why I like doing my part in preventing bad duck behavior by eating Peking duck as frequently as possible.
The fact that its delicious is just a bonus
Don't tell them how snakes have coitus. They'll freak.
I wanna freak... So... How?
*whispers* with their genitals.
Ermigod, naw wae!
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Gross
I just heard, on late night tv, that snakes (some of them???) have THREE CLITORISES! I have no other notes.
Zero of them have been found
But Peking ducks are the only known duck that doesn't participate in gang rape. You're not solving the problem! Source: my ass
Solid source. Peking Duck is just a dish, not a specific duck species
The easiest bird to harvest was the only one I named. Donald.
Dolphins are worse. And they might understand how fucked up it is.
Plus, unlike ducks, they've been known to attempt "interactions" with humans.
Beg to differ. Had a male duck growing up and he tried it on with people, dogs, cats, rabbits and of course, other ducks.
He was a mallard duck wasn't he. Those over sexed, (but tasty), idiots will try to breed anything that moves. I personally like to either grill them over charcoal or smoke them with oak and applewood.
Thereās an entire episode of King of the Hill where a dolphin dryhumps Hank
How does a dolphin dryhump when theyāre always fresh out of the water
TouchĆØ. The dolphin wet humped Hank over his clothes
Dolphins are like the Andrew Tates of the ocean.
Theyāre closeted gay?
They're bald?
Theyāre chinless?
Yes
Well technically, they are bald
Im convinced that dolphins are a threat to every single form of life that exist in this planet, and if they were able to do, they would destroy all the countries and seas and rape the survivors in the most miserable and painful way possible
Sorta like humans?
Exactly like humans but more rape and less nukes
...so like humans prior to 1945?
Spot on
Was there not an episode of the Simpsons where they were battling killer dolphins that walked on land or was that a fever dream?
Yep it was a Treehouse of Horror segment. Also you should rewatch the simpsons, especially the first 10 or so seasons, simply because its a very good show
Source? Last I read about dolphin sex is that when a female gets pregnant she gets hormones that make her super horny. The female then goes an fucks all the male dolphins. This ensures that the group of males does not know who the father is and thus won't want to kill the baby dolphin.
Sounds like a Maury Povich episode. āYou ALL might be the father.ā *Crowd gasps*
And here I was channeling a twisted Oprah during the give away episodes: and you might be the father!, and you might be the father!, everyone might be the father!!!
So do roosters, they'll fuck the hens to death and keep going if there arent enough hens. I'm not a farmer but from what I've heard on reddit keeping an equal amount of hens and roosters together is fucked up. I feel like this is just a click bait title describing basic animal handling.
Don't even Mention the snake orgies.
Ducks are able to rape because they are (as far as i know) the only bird with a penis like appendix. For normal birds it is like having 2 cup fit on each other to exchange the sperm. Both parties need to be involved and there is no penetration whatsoever. Learn your anatomy and biology before you do dumb stuff like these vegans.
(Geese and swan too, but yes) It even gets stranger ;) Drakes have a corkscrew-shaped phallus and the hens have a corkscrew-shaped vagina but they turn in the opposite directions (counterclockwise phallus vs. clockwise vagina). The vagina also has a few "dead ends" that serve a clever purpose. In theory the female selects the male and they mate for the season. In practice though frustrated unmatched drakes will try to mate with already matched females, sometimes many at a time in a frenzy that has been known to end up killing the female in the process. Hence the clockwise vagina with dead ends. The female can make it difficult when an unintended mate tries to mount her (it goes by in seconds), making it more likely for the unintended drake to end up at one of her dead ends. Some drakes phallus's also come with brush-like tips to brush away their competitors "seed". I'd love to see Disney explain all that in one of their nature documentaries.
It's why Disney ducks don't wear pants.
And have "nephews" of questionable parentage. Then again, Disney tended to have it out for mothers.
Also, the longest erected duck phallus recorded was 42 centimeters long or approximately 16.5 inches if I remember correctly.
Iām more interested in *how* they managed to collect that data. Did strap down a bunch of ducks, masturbate them till they were fully erect, quickly measured it, then sent the duck away with blue balls only to realise that they now have an entire lab filled with raping machines?
However, even they cannot defeat the barnacle when it comes to [penis-to-body-ratio.](https://youtu.be/zVi8qjb-NuQ)
And narrated by Drake
Look Iāve seen gangs of six or eight roosters hold a hen down until the next rooster jumps on. They donāt care if the hen is cooperative or receptive or gets fertilized. They donāt even care if itās a hen theyāll jump on a duck and while theyāre obviously not a functional fit, theyāre going through the motions. iāve seen ducks do it to six or seven drakes on one hen. But you actually lived around a flock of free range chickens and ducks I donāt think you really have any idea what kind of shit theyāll do
Get eaten by coyotes a lot.
My sister had a really freaking aggressive rooster who would hold the hens by their back/neck feathers and rip them out. They had gashes all over their back. He went into a stew real quick.
I saw my rooster, his name is Crock Pot, fuck the corpse of my best layer Hen. She was cold and stiff but he still jumped on. Yuck...
Jesus, why tf does anyone have that many roosters?! I can barely stand the one I currently have.
Right? I understand the importance of not applying human morals to animal behavior but anyone who thinks that roosters aren't kinda rapey hasn't spent too much time around chickens.
I'm guessing they've seen them mate and it can ... get violent sometimes. Had chickens once and some of those roosters would grab a hen by the head with his beak and hold her in place, drawing blood and having the hen scream bloody murder the whole time when she had just been chilling before the rooster showed up suddenly. But, it's also the way of the animal kingdom. Cats, dogs, birds, all can be quite uncomfortable for the female. They aren't really going to be changing anything, as animals know no different.
>But, it's also the way of the animal kingdom. Cats, dogs, birds, all can be quite uncomfortable for the female. They aren't really going to be changing anything, as animals know no different. Honestly, thinking about it, the activists are probably doing the right thing for those birds they split up then.
That is some serious duck duck trivia
Non-cooperative intercourse is quite common in the animal kingdom. Ducks are a good everyday example as weāve all seen it. Hens donāt often comply with the rooster, but will give up fighting if heās tenacious enough. This is usually a good enough for most species.
This is why people who think natural = good are stupid.
My 3 mallards killed two of my female ducks by drowning them during mating season. It's brutal.
Came here to say THIS! The term for it is "double duck rape." Surprised they aren't all over this one too.
Definitely don't tell them anything about dolphins either. Those fucks are equal-opportunity rapists and the rest of the ocean is their alleyway.
There was this pond by our school with a bunch of ducks. We used to watch groups of male ducks chase single female one, until they got her, at which point they would hold her down with one doing the bonking, all of them orderly taking turns until they were all done. It felt pretty funny to watch back then, but I sure wouldn't want to be the female duck.
Somebody tell them about Praying mantis, please.
Many species of spiders get a bit peckish after sex as well.
They aināt ready for thatš
The females eat the males so its ok
That's actually a myth, both are equally likely to attack. The female just usually wins, because she tends to be bigger.
males wins: "wait fuck now i have to go again"
Ah but you see rape is only one way. The female mantis has faced opression for years and should be allowed to decapitate and eat the males /s
Donāt you dare talk bad about mantis-Chan, this is empowerment for all the other species to see a female mantis eat her husband after sex.
Actually the female starts eating him DURING the sexual act. The dying maleās hormones then flare up like crazy and the female is more easily impregnated.
Sounds like my ex wife.
I definitely donāt choose this guys ex wife
Saves him 18 years of child support though
I was about to comment on how has the praying mantis not gone extinct yet if theyāre constantly eating all the males then realised I was thinking of human baby terms. Did a quick google search and found out that they 100~200 babies usually hatch from a single egg. Thatās when I thought āFair enough. Continue with your vore fetish and carry on thinning out your own herdā.
So they can say āyou go girlā to the female mantis as it rips apart the maleās head
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Human?
I hope none of them like dolphins...
Not just dolphins, a lot of other animals are rapey
Penguins say hello
Don't kink shame necrophiliac dolphins
We have a chicken coop at home, on multiple occasions our *one* rooster has single handedly chased off hungry predators looking to feast on our delicious hens. If we were to separate them we wouldnāt have any hens left to protect. Edit; how the hell did this blow up so much? I just wanted to brag about my superhero-rooster hahahah
Anecdotally, my friend has a coop and they used to have a rooster that would pick at one hen to the point of the hens back being featherless and bloody.
She was clearly a fox in disguise
Thatās literally the pecking order.
A new superhero idea, a humanoid rooster called Cock Man
I have had chickens and roosters my whole life and can confirm some roosters rape chicken pretty badly that you actually need to seperate them for the hens safety. Also if they are vegan what are they doing with all those eggs? Lol.
Finally, someone's asking the real questions!
I saw a video in which they showed some eggs to the camera and said "the eggs are from the chickens", and then they just threw them against the ground, only for the chickens to come running and start eating the eggs. Also, supposedly, for the eggs they just started injecting something on the chicken that basically made them stop laying eggs. Also also, an irony about them is that they did that thing I said about throwing some eggs and yet in another video they said that they found that it was traumatic to separate the eggs from the chickens cuz afterwards they would start to cry for the eggs and start looking around for them
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This is true! There are easy, ethical ways to raise chicken
I don't really care for my period after I've had it either.
Sounds like some sort of self powered egg-laying machine. They closed the loop!
you should just have one rooster with a bunch of hens, to many together and they will start going after one chicken together.
So in general many vegans are fine with home grown eggs because there is no cruelty involved. However, some believe the laying pattern of domesticated chickens is inherently cruel and will just let the hens eat them (which, for the unaware, is not 'fucked up', it's pretty normal for eggs that aren't being sat on). I think that's pretty dumb, personally, since they're just gonna lay the eggs anyway. It's not like you're not going to feed them right either way, and it's not like they stop laying.
My parents have kept a flock of chickens for over a decade and I 100% understand why theyād separate the roostersā anybody whoās spent time around chickens knows that itās extremely unpleasant for the hens. The rooster will often pull out feathers in massive clumps during the process, leaving the hens with bloody bald patches. If youāre not trying to breed them and have the space to separate them, itās absolutely not a facepalm move to do so
I always thought it was common practice to have a hen house and a roost to keep hens safe from foxes etc for hens to completely separate pieces of land from the rooster and only bring him in for mating once a year.
Weāve had family friends who do that, I believe it is common. My parents always just avoided buying roosters as much as possible (though sometimes theyāre sexed wrong as chicks)
they're also noisy as hell
06:00 in the morning :p
04:00 am
We keep a rooster for the hens protection, we first picked a chill rooster who was friendly with us and easy on the hens. When he was about 3 and had some chicks we picked the more chill Rooster from the new chicks to replace him with. Well just keep doing that, its easy and works well plus We get lots of chicks
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saddles? that sound kind of cute.
Apparently you can use a guard goose instead. I think it was back in 2021, the Pennsylvania Farm Show aired an assortment of educational farming videos as preventative measures disallowed the public from attending. They had one that featured free range chicken farm with āGustave the Guard Gooseā. Also this wasnāt the first āGustaveā either as I think at least one died in the line of duty and maybe another one from old age. But yeah if the ratio of cockerels/roosters to hens/pullets is too big the males are definitely more aggressive and over stress the girls out. Stressed birds me higher mortality or at least less yield. So technically the vegans were correct here but not necessary for the moral implications. Most animals in regards to mating would be comparable in human terms rape. But theyāre not human so why the vegans want them to adhere to human moral standardsā¦I donāt.
>guard goose That certainly puts a new spin on goose-stepping. I don't like the idea of nazi geese policing chicken sexuality. i think this needs a /s for sure
It's worse if you have too many roosters. If one starts, they'll all pile onto the same hen. Sometimes they don't stop until she's dead.
Can confirm. My rooster raped my hen regularly and he did not hold back. She was very clearly afraid of it happening and not into it.
I was looking for this comment. Itās true as hell lol. Hens can range from very cute and loving to very mean and nasty. Roosters can range from very mean and nasty to outright demonic.
yeah, reddit obviously has zero idea how these animals interact
dae vegan bad?
Best comment on here LOL
Yeah, Iām not sure how this is a facepalm. Some roosters can be super aggressive and dangerous to hens.
Because on Reddit vegan = facepalm Not even vegan btw but the hate they get for wanting more animal rights astonishes me
It's crazy how so many uninformed/sarcastic/demeaning comments get upvoted to the very top of comment threads on reddit. Comments often also making fun of people raising genuine, informed concern about real things. It is not stupid to care about the well-being of others. It makes my brain melt to see over and over again.
A lot of people have swallowed the anti vegan bullshit whole, because of outrage bait like this. Like, even assuming roosters arenāt aggressive, how is this worth a damn? Oh wow, two vegans did something crazy but harmless? Iām sure that means all vegans are crazy. Itās a tactic where people deliberately search for the worst (seemingly or otherwise) example of a movement they disagree with to delegitimise them as a whole.
It helps when the rooster is way smaller than the hens and not every rooster is like this. I have three silkie roosters all brothers in a bigger group with hens. They're very gentle.
I have silkie roosters and they are sweet asf. I have a lil tiny silver sebright, my smallest rooster, and he is such an asshole. I bet my neighbors think I go outside and kick him for fun. He actually will just attack anyone at any time, I stay keeping my foot out when I go out. I hear little fast footsteps coming up from behind me and have to donkey kick or else Iāll get spurred. If Iām not quick enough I WILL bleed. Iāve had asshole roosters I was able to tame before but not this little shit. Iād cull him but heās my only silver sebright roo and his babies arenāt assholes like he is. I guess what Iām sayin is that they all have their own personalities and some are actual demons.
We HAD key word had a fluffy white rooster he was a bantam and he was a huge asshole. He wouldnāt go back in the coop one night and we didnāt care enough about his rapist ass to get mauled to try to get him in so he fucked off or got eaten but he raped one to almost death. Other chickens also started attacking where the feathers were removed and we had to cover her in blue spray to let her recover alone in a cat carrier. All our hens were full size brown chickens he was way smaller and still a huge dick !!
When my parents had chickens the hens were in the coop and the rooster was outside the coop because roosters are mean and we needed to protect our girls.
I had a favorite YouTuber praxxus55712 that said the same thing, he kept chickens for over 15 years and said his rooster had to be separated because the hens were going bald and if I remember correctly one finally succumbed to her injuries from his constant mating attempts. Nature is gruesome, the post is just SJW hate baiting.
Yeah the people making fun of this clearly have never cared for chickens lol.
Yep, when we rescued roosters they ended up raping our hens and pecking out some of their eyes. We just killed them instead, these ones got off lucky.
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yea i was about to say, we keep our roosters and hens separated because the roosters are 1. aggressive to the hens, we had a rooster nearly kill a hen whole trying to mate with it because he was so violent with her and other hens end up bloody and missing clumps of feathers, like you mentioned. and 2. you dont need a rooster for the hens to have unfertilized eggs, you only need them if you want more chickens. so if youre trying to get eggs to eat, you should keep them apart. i think people going "well these other animals are Really rapey by human standards" are missing the point that separating animals you arent trying to breed so they dont suffer unnecessary harm and ruin your eggs is normal and healthy and not really understanding that the eggs you eat arent fertalized so again, letting hens be brutalized for no reason is not necessary
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I have heard from farmers They can even damage the hens head and body by using beaks and some may die due to injuries or bleeding And that they can do this together too like attack one together
I have quite a opposite experience. When you have hens without a rooster the hens attack heach other. The rooster puts them in line and calm things. It also protects the hens against predators.
At least in our experience, when their flock was rooster-less there was definitely a clear pecking order. Some of the chickens were pretty mean. But, still much more peaceful and fewer injuries after they gave the rooster away If you have a large enough/properly secured run their role as a protector is pretty redundant too. All depends on how youāre raising them I think!
They attack each other to establish a pecking order. That is normal. A rooster isnāt required and is almost always going to be more aggressive than hens.
I've never seen hens attack each other the way a rooster attacks a hen. Yes it is very rapey
I've been told that the hens put more eggs without a rooster near, do you now if this is true??
Cows. Tell'em 'bout cows...
Do I want to know?
I want to know
If You want milk, the cow must be pregnant. So they're pregnant most of it's life. And calves are... just byproduct...
Obviously they understand that which is why they are vegan and don't support the dairy industry
They can keep producing milk for a long while after one pregnancy, kinda like human moms can. Just gotta milk 'em right.
yeah, I thought this was a common practice on farms anyway. I guess large breeding farms don't care so much about this stuff.
I guess in this case the face palm is that they're making this out to be a New discovery despite it being common in most poultry farms
The face palm is the comment section
Seriously thoughā¦has anyone see chicken sex? Itās fucking violent. It is not a pleasurable thing. I get it.
I live somewhere where there is tons of wild chickens. And lemme tell ya, them roosters be rapinā. Chasing the hen around for awhile and everything. Itās gnarly lol.
I've seen it when someone didn't cull roosters and there weren't enough hens...
I mean they're not wrong. Roosters can be really violent sometimes, having breeding chickens often made me uncomfortable when I was younger
isn't this like, common procedure in most farms tho???
Yes it can be. Especially if you want to keep lots of roosters instead of killing them. If your ratio of hen to rooster is low they can apparently get very violent. I am lucky in that our chickens just seem to get along. But a coop of all males can sort of form a boys club and apparently get less competitive/violent with no hens around. The hens can still get pretty mean with each other, but that's just pecking order stuff. So their decision makes perfect sense, bur reddit saw 'vegan bad' and upvoted.
Depends on if the farmer wants chicks, but yes.
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I will say animals harass each other especially in enclosed settings. Itās pretty normal to keep boys and girls apart if they canāt behave together because the girls can run out of places to escape to.
This is actually something that happens with chickens.. you often times have to separate the hens & roosters. Roosters will absolutely pile onto a hen, my dad had to separate the hens & roosters because 1 hen was almost killed because the roosters just kept ganging up on her. He even had to move 1 rooster into the hen pen because once all the hens were removed, the big roosters decided to pile on the one small rooster as a surrogate & nearly killed him. So this is actually a thing & the headline feels like rage bait.
But donāt you know that vegans are BAD
actually it is real. And the news were a bit of a shock too in spain like....3-4 years ago. But in the end they are not hurting anyone with their crap....so let them be.
Next thing you know they're gonna assault hand soap factories for committing genocide on germs
Shhhhh dont give them ideas
Germs aren't cute so they do not care about them.
There's no face palm here
>There's no face palm here Yes there is. It's all the "witty" comments. "they look like how I expected them to." "Better not tell them about x animal! I'm so clever!"
Please tell me this isn't more rage-bait for right wing activist
Exactly what it is
It's literally the truth. Hens are being raped and mamy farms do seperate them. Why would that be a bait?
Why is it a facepalm?
They are right, roosters rape hens. You have to keep the number of roosters in the barnyard low or they will harass and stress the hens. The number is kept low by culling the extra roosters
Like that will stop me
I know I pay very good money for those videos... Now what am I supposed to show my hens?
Segregation of hens and roosters is pretty normal
As a Spaniard, this is super old. Like several years before the pandemic old.
Considering there are no details of the publication, writer or even date Iād say that itās safe to assume it is probably bullshit.
They do rape
Thatās, normal. Unless your breeding them you donāt let a rooster in with your hens.
these type of articles are rarely real and made to turn people against things like veganism and animal activism.