>Selectively breed chickens up to the size of emusIt is possible? pic related is a Bhagel Asil
>>5133714It would just be a more dangerous casowary
>>5133714This is a better use of selective breeding chickens.https://youtu.be/FtmxI1htSpo
>>5133714asil are small chickens. jersey giants grow 2-3x larger.
Oh no, I know that OP pic...
>>5133714I mean the largest and heaviest chicken breed in the world is the all American Jersey Giant, 26 inches tall and 7kg in weight. They were made with the same logic of:>what if we have chicken sized emus we can slaughter for meat?However chicken meat exporters soon discovered that for the price and upkeep for giant chickens is far less profitable than just breeding turkeys. You get more meat on the bone with turkey and you don't run into the health problems that you encounter with giant chickens because, just like a lot of other animals unaturally bred beyond their natural baseline size, their joints are not straining under such weight before avian arthritis makes them into cripples. You are not going to have giant chickens survive much longer past the chick stage if you want to push from 26 inches 7kg to 75 inches 60kg that emus inhabit. But then lets say you do manage that, why not just farm emus at that point? People already do and it would require far less work than some tinanic chicken that can't walk. Even turkeys struggle to grow anywhere near the size of the emu, with meat cultivators for generations trying to make gigantic turkeys with the likes of the Broad Breasted White that is a mere 45 inches 20kg compared to an emu, and even then, they have even more catastrophic health issues than a Jersey Giant like heart disease as well as respitory failure, not to mention the leg deformities.So sadly no, not really. Also that man looks like he is shitting while tenderly carressing that poor chicken.
>>5133772I wonder how long it took for that guy to calm down.Maybe sometimes it still keeps him up at night.
>>5133781It was pretty funny seeing him make seethe threads over anons just replying to him with bears
>>5133772>>5133781>>5133798Give me the qrd
>>5133803>OP makes a post about the Asil>one of the replies is a bear gif and an intentionally aggravating shitpost about how small Asils are and how Indians like to brag about how big the chickens are but always do weird camera tricks to make them seem bigger>for some reason, OP goes ballistic and cause the thread to go over a 100 replies and creates the persona of the "bearfag" as an arch enemy>anons keep posting bear pics while OP does multi-reply chains claiming it's all one samefag and not the thread dunking on him>after anons screencap to show how it's different people in the replt chains and OP is acting like a schizophrenic, OP makes seperate threads talking about how much he hates the "bearfag" before mods removed them>now whenever the topic of giant chickens pop up, anons either remember the possibly indian OP schizoing out or the dread pirate robert-esque "bearfag"It's worth a read in the archives with how batshit it all was.
>>5133714It's possible but would take way too long time
>>5133805I do love a good schizo meltie
>>5133807
>>5133714This is a normal sized chicken, indians are just small and this guy is pushing the chicken closer to the camera to make it look larger
>hmmm, yas>by vishnu I like the dreaming of big cocks
>>5133714That's a man (with feathers)
>>5133805do you think hes the one who attacked that bear a month ago
well, this thread is getting off to a better start than the last one with the OP
>>5133858It's a copycat thread so I am not too surprised, it's a different OP from the last one and outside of the meltdown there wasn't actually a lot of traction in on topic posts. Honestly though I find it interesting that not a lot of anons talk about Dong Tao chickens, they are pretty rare in the west but are a decent size.
>>5133870wow, im surprised theyre rare because something like that is perfect for dim sum
>>5133870>copycat>cats out of nowhereRent free. Cat website btw.
>>5133870Why do the legs look like that?
>>5134624The vietamese love eating chicken feet for some reason. Ironically, apparently normal chicken feet actually taste better than Dong Tao feet but it's still a delicacy amongst the middle class.
>>5134632More like feetnam am i right lmao
>>5133714That's the biggest chicken i've ever seen
>>5135811Nuh uh
>>5133772I have a question regarding bears.Bears are common on hiking trails in the US, bears are dangerous, many American own guns, guns can kill things, why don't you guys just shoot bears that wander on to hiking trails to protect yourselves?
>>5133769That would be a lot more impressive if the man holding the chicken wasn't 5'0"
>>5135818Not an american, but it's not that simple. Half the stuff you can carry on your person while hiking wouldn't be able to put down a grizzly immediately unless you got the drop on it (something that's unlikely happen). In theory calibers as small as .22lr or 9mm can kill a grizzly, but you're going to need to hit it in the temple for them to immediately going down (thus needing to get the drop on them). If a grizzly is charging you head on (which it will likely do as it will find you first) nothing will do shit unless you have rifle munitions or slug shells which you ain't going to daily carry while hiking. But even if you do manage to daily carry a pistol or revolver packing .30-06 somehow you're going to have a hard time hitting a grizzly square in it's forehead while it's moving towards you as, their speed is one thing, but a giant fucking predator charging you is going to make your aim skittish at the bear minimum. Even hunters have a hard time hunting giant boars when they charge, try a grizzly while hiking. Unless you're a hunter going out of your way to find a grizzly, having a gun won't help you hiking and that's why you should just avoid going near grizzly territory entirely.
>>5135818most bears you encounter are going to be black bears, but theyll fuck off at the drop of a hat, you have to be an absolute izzat farming retard to get killed by a black beargrizzlies are the dangerous ones, but theyre mostly near canada and alaska now, and the smallest you can go .44 magnum, anyone saying otherwise is trying to get you killed
>>5133714>It is possible?Probably not. People think selective breeding is the magic ticket to create anything given enough time. It's not. An organism's genetic makeup simply may not have the genes to do it or its makeup is simply unsuitable at larger sizes unless there is some EXTREME forced mutation (i.e. genetic engineering).
>>5135833>but a giant fucking predator charging you is going to make your aim skittish at the bear minimum.
>>5135839>the smallest you can go .44 magnumEven then you're going to need to mag dump all your shots while staying on target.
>>5136048Lol no, fire one someday and report back.>mag dumpIf it's a .44 than there's a 99% chance it's a revolver.
>>5133714They already exist
>>5137059Looks like the album cover of Head of The Hawk
>>5135839>and the smallest you can go .44 magnum, anyone saying otherwise is trying to get you killedshot placement is more important than anything. there's confirmed grizzly kills by .22. not saying i'd go out in bear country with .22 but still. personally i carry high grain .357 and feel capable of dropping anything that comes my way.
That's possible.It's difficult.And need I say, random.Animals never lose their lethality and never will in your lifetime. That's because domestication is a fairly recent phenomenon and we would need several more years of non-gene-editing artificial selection to actually get an animal that is literally 100% docile.With that in mind, applies to chickens too.You need to remember that all life is interconnected to the LUCA.If you let the chicken-big gene grow, it may inadvertently trigger some other part of the deep-seated (4 billion years old btw) evolutionary quirk that makes them more aggressive.If that happens, they kill other chickens around them.If you cage them, high cortisol, bad meat.It essentially becomes kind of a futile and counterproductive task.We have hope in gene editing, but as you can imagine, tracking what gene does what accurately and how it affects other things is a borderline impossible task, and I do not think it will ever be accurate enough for real work.
>>5137088Meds???
>>5133758The ironic part about the Jersey Giant is that the brothers that created it considered it a failure.They wanted a broiler (bird produced for meat not eggs) and since it takes over 2 years for a Jersey Giant to reach full size they are basically a waste of money when the amount of meat produced vs time and amount of feed consumed is weighed against eachother.
>>5133775why you know so much about poultry
Bigger.I need them to be this big.
>>5137126I got you.
>>5137147>>5137126
>>5133714I think we reached the limit of chiggen height for Bhagel Asil's and Indio Gigantes
>>5135818Many people do kill bears that threaten them on hiking trails. I just got back from a week in bear country and I carried a handgun for that purpose. But I don’t trust everyone to use a handgun effectively in a high stress situation, which is why spray is a better choice for many people.
>>5137077According to Wilderness Research Institute’s audit of bear defensive incidents, there’s no statistical difference between 44 mag, 357 mag, 40 S&W, 45 Colt, and 45 ACP. 9mm is only slightly less likely to allow you to effectively defend yourself than the cartridges above. Ironically, the Timmie’s favorite recommendation for bear defense, 10mm, has a worst statistical record than these other cartridges for bear defense, but that is an artifact of a small data set and two incidents where people with Glock 10mm handguns had problems (one guy dropped the mag when drawing the gun, giving him one shot that he missed, before the bear mauled him, and another where a guy who’s buddy was getting mauled limp-wristed his Glock, causing it to jam).So carry a 10mm if you want, just maybe not a Glock 20 SF.
Giant chickens tend to crush their own eggs all the time. I think their size capacity is basically 15 lbs due to egg fragility
>>5133816You can make one at any time Polturd
>>5133817Where he dad go!?
>>5137164Before I die I will eat a roasted ostrich drumstick and become king of the renfair.
>>5137581But ostrich tastes like shiet
>>5137902Nah ostrich is good
>>5137902I ate ostrich steaks and they tasted like I was eating pure iron, maybe my idiot brother prepared them wrong
>>5138021>>5138067Meant for u fuark
>>5137581Imagine the texture of steak with the taste of turkey or chicken. Kind of gamey honestly, but you get a nice amount of myoglobin which adds to the taste as >>5138067 points out but you do need to cook it differently from conventional poultry/meat cuts.>>5138021 is just a man of little taste.
>>5138272Whoops, meant to reply to >>5137902 on the last line lmao. >>5138021 is a man of refined taste.
>>5134632>>5133870>not a lot of anons talk about Dong Tao chickensbecause they're export protected, you can't get the breed outside of VietnamThey're also a pretty robust and healthy breed (for a meatbird) so not much else to say
>>5133714Chickens are breed to be eaten. They're very easy to kill compared to cows and pigs. If they were made the size of ostriches, that would just make them be another animal that is very diffiult to keep and kill. Not doable.
>>5138067It's a wild animal. They weren't bred to be used as food for us.
>>5137126Too much weight on top of that bipedal animal. Why the fuck would two bipedal creatures ride another one?
>>5134632>>5138334Nice, I visit Vietnam early this year
>>5137072Even spooky manga?
>>5137439Dad is kill. But grandbaby can swing from his tree.
>>5137106That's interesting. They are still a cool breed. I've read that the hens go broody quite often so they could still perform some functions on a farm, although perhaps a silkie would be more cost effective in terms of food eaten in that regard.
>>5135818If you shoot a bear that isn't actively attacking someone the Nature cops are going to seriously investigate whether you or someone else was in actual danger and if they decide you shot the bear too early they will fuck your life up.
>>5135839>>5136048You are embarrassingly ignorant.
>>5140072A .44 can kill a grizzly like a .22 can, but that doesn't mean it's going to be easy or reliable at all compared to rifle ammunition. Then theres the fact that you can have magazine fed .44s, but literal autists like >>5136068 who will instead of choosing to understand that when someone says magdump they likely mean to just shoot everything they have they will just hyper fixate on .44 being primarily revovler.All of the spec sheet shit is pointless though anyway. If there are grizzlys near a hiking trail and you're a hiker you shouldn't hike. It doesn't matter if you are using .22, 9mm or .44, encountering a grizzly bear is going to fuck you up in terms of nerves and how you react. At least if you are using rifle ammunition you know when you are going to hit the grizzly it is going to do something and improve the likelihood of you surviving while pistol calibers MIGHT do something when a shot lands (all the while assuming you are still steady and not missing you shots).
>>5135833Some people think they could beat that thing in a fight by the way
>>5140142All I'm saying is that there are high secruity mental hospitals which house 250+ lbs berzerkers and have orderlies which can somehow wrestle whole wing of them into submission. A big bear like a Grizzly can't be that bad in comparison.
>>5140361As horrifying as it may be to be mauled by a down syndrome I don't that really compares to a fucking 400kg bear anon
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>>5140361Anon that bear is probably over 1000 pounds, a 250 pound schizo is nothing
