Is this cruel?

[Zylphrix]

Birdnutz you describe exactly how I was taught to hypnotize chickens .. my friend who taught me said when he was a child his mom would come home yelling about him having all thier chickens (I believe he said 60 birds) Laid on thier backs Hypnotized .. minus a few roosters he couldnt pick up!

LOL!
Mark

 

[Fancy Feather Poultry]

The chickens not sleeping its just scared to DEATH!, ask your self would you like ur head shuved under ur arm and rocked back and forth.

 

[wegotchickens]

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Maybe we know the same guy, cause I heard the same story recently. His mom coming home to see her whole batch of purebred birds laid out in a row as if dead!

 

[paganfish]

Well, my mom always said my grandmother used to *make her chickens* relax/sleep before she laid them down on butcher block. She would talk to them and rub their waddles/combs and murmur to them en route to the block...then tuck their heads under elbow and when she pulled the chicken out it would be dozy like and *whack!*. Apparently the bird did not know what hit it.

 

[Zylphrix]

yeah .. the way i hypnotize a chicken doesnt involve and swinging or head tucking ... just lay him on his back and draw a line with your hand .. its quite wierd .. imagine if humans had a trigger to some kind of trance behavior .. Anyone believe in Aliens .. lol !!!


WeGotChickens ... is the guys name Art or Arthur? .. that would be "small world" material if it were the same dude


Mark

 

[Redfeathers]

I hope you don't think I'm cruel because I'm not, I love all animals, but I run a hunt test here in Oregon. It's training gun dogs how to point, set and retrieve a bird. In a nut shell we basically do the same thing but we spin the birds gently and "plant" them in tall grass clumps in an open field, this kind of makes them dizzy so they just sit very still until the dog points them and the handler "flushes" them out by lifting them quickly with their foot, that abruptly brings them back to reality, then they fly. Birds seem to get dizzy very easily and they just hunker down. We use Chukar but I would think this would apply to most birds.

Just a guess as to why the chicken is holding so still.

By the way, we don't shoot the vast majority of the birds, only for the master and senior levels, most of our dogs are still trying to earn their junior hunting titles so the birds get to go free, which is far better then a life of captivity in a tiny cage.

 

[seminolewind]

I think all animals have this "give up" response. When they think they're going to die, they just go catatonic. I've seen this happen with different animals.
Even in babies, at work , sometimes it takes a couple tries to get an IV into a baby vein. First the baby screams and fights, and we have to try all different soothing measures. Then , they just give up, and fall asleep.

 

[MarkR]

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That's how magician's do it now. . . when Bosco (a famous Italian magician from the 1800's) did it with pigeons, he actually tore (actually cut) heads off and did a somewhat complicated switch for live birds. Magic has a rather gruesome history.

Then there's the story of Dedi, and Egyptian magician, who cut the head off a goose, gave the head to the pharoah, then restored it. No one is exactly sure how that was done, but the head was actually presented for examination. Ewww.

Show business careers for chickens and other poultry have definitely improved over the years.

Mark

 

[wegotchickens]

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Unless he has another nickname, it's probably not the same guy. The guy I know is named Charles, but he does art. He paints using egg yolks as the medium to convey the pigment (icon painting, he calls it). He wanted my eggs to see the difference between a REALLY fresh organic egg and the store-bought variety.

How weird that both these guys played the same trick on their mothers!