# Chickens!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chickens/592562>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 13, 2011, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chickens/592562 "2011-08-13T10:44:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chickens/592562/21 "2011-08-14T10:50:43Z")

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> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#):
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> I can’t figure out how you would pick up chicken shit is my point, not why you would want too.

Barbecue tongs.

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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2011, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chickens/592562/22 "2011-08-14T12:14:52Z")

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Yay, two more eggs. From the coop to my plate, delicious.

I’m getting into this now.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chickens/592562/23 "2011-08-26T20:54:52Z")

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> [@Lightlystarched](#):
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> Hmph. MY chickens are not dumb.

MY chickens are straight up special needs. Could not find their asses with both hands (if they had hands, that is.) SUPER CUTE tho. 😃

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**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chickens/592562/24 "2011-08-26T23:25:27Z")

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I’m surprised that nobody has mentioned the singing.

Domesticated chickens require that someone sing to them, at least every fifth day, or they become desponded and start laying square or pyramidal shaped eggs, and their toenails wither (thereby rendering them unable to scratch up bugs and geckos).

The minimum singing requirement is 20 minutes, twice a day, and they prefer country and western. But not sea chanties. Chickens hate sea chanties.

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