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This is probably a key factor actually, because they seem to have an instinct about it that's more than a product of current conditions. Cannibalism as a stress reaction to confinement makes sense for actual confinement and actual stress, but "confinement" here is a stretchy term. Some people...

You mean the conditions that my pet chickens are raised in? They have all their needs met and never go hungry, so I doubt a normal animal would eat their own family members under those conditions. But chickens aren't normal animals, as far as nature is concerned, and are a very far cry from the...

Yep. Chickens are savage psychopaths and don't give a cluck. They would eat their own flock member alive, while it's screaming for help, and they don't even have to be starving to do that! How many animals would do that to their own, at the mere sight of a speck of blood? (again, without being...

I lived on a farm for part of my life when I was younger. We had chickens and pigs, and housed them separately. In the rare instances when a chicken managed to somehow get into the pig's space, it got eaten. I would absolutely not trust pigs around chickens. Maybe some of them could be safe and...