• paddirn@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    If any bird still acts like it thinks it’s a dinosaur, it’s those goddamn Canadian Geese.

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      When i was a kid, there was this lady who lived on my way to school. Dhe had a nice, fenced garden and two huge dogs and like 10 geese. I was never scared of the dogs, vut the geese were vicious. Sometimes they were on the lose and my way home turned into a survival horror game. They never stopped chasing. Dometimes i took some bread with me to throw and run away. One day they were chasing me i ran like a motherfucker around a corner and threw my last breaf. there was this young family with two little kids, and i was so relieved, because that was an easy way to lose them and at the same time i hoped that they were good runners. I honestly don’t even know what would’ve happend if they ever caught me and i’m glad i never found out. I really miss these fuckers.

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      Geese, ducks and chickens had all already evolved when the dinosaurs went extinct. They are all tough hombre.

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        10 months ago

        Have you not been reading this thread? Dinosaurs never went extinct. A sparrow is descended from the great raptors

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    I loved having chickens, but sometimes you can tell they’re little dinosaurs. One time I was doing something near the chicken run, and all six of them suddenly went quiet and dead still. Then a wasp flew through the run and one of the hens jumped about 2-3 feet off the ground and knocked it right out of the air. Another hen ran over to where it landed and ate it. It was all over in about 15-20 seconds, the birds went back to acting normal and I’m just standing there going, “Damn!”.

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      10 months ago

      One of my hens came up to me as I stepped outside, but instead of following me around, she leaped at something to my left. She shredded apart a 4-inch long mantis!

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          You gotta be careful though because sometimes they get a craving for the high taurine diet and start eating their own eggs. Incredibly hard problem to fix once it starts.

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    10 months ago

    If you’ve ever seen what roosters do to hawks, chickens do do mice or, heck, other weak chickens, then you’d know that they do remember.

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    Rhode Island Red or a hybrid thereof (e.g. Golden Comet).

    Great egg layers (the hens of course, not the roo pictured) and very mild mannered.