# "Jugging" chickens **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 29, 2024, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jugging-chickens/998289 "2024-02-29T17:56:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jugging-chickens/998289/21 "2024-03-03T16:08:13Z")
I bet that didn’t smell fresh after a few days. How disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jugging-chickens/998289/22 "2024-03-03T16:12:33Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Isn’t it similar to keeping snakes and geckos, mice and rats or other small creatures in your home? > I assume they’re kept in some cage or aquarium (jug?). They’re kept, presumably, or at least I certainly hope they are, in cages/terrariums large enough for them to comfortably move around inside. A chick in a bottle is rapidly going to grow to the point at which it can’t do that. And then, I expect, to the point at which it dies slowly because it doesn’t fit in the bottle at all. Breaking the bottle would be the only way to get it out and would be dangerous to the chick. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jugging-chickens/998289/23 "2024-03-04T00:01:48Z")
> [@P-man](#): > > I did the job regularly from the time I was able to carry a couple of chickens in each hand (around 9 or so) until our family got out of the chicken business when was 14. Getting rid of manure wasn’t that big of a deal; there was a thing that pushed it to an augur the took it to the manure spreader outside. We had a pretty small operation, with only 5000 hens. Oof, my sympathies to you! I grew up on farms and did a lot of literally shitty jobs, but that was the worst. This egg laying operation (I don’t know how many hens they had, but these barns were extremely long) used a modified skid-steer to push the manure. I assume it had a shit protection roof unlike us that were manually moving the hens. Thanks to the amazingness of Google Maps, I can tell you the barns are about 500’ long and there are 6 of them along with another 2 that are about 400’ long. They have more barns on another piece of nearby property but as far as I know, they weren’t that big back when I worked there (mid 80s). > [@thorny\_locust](#): > > A chick in a bottle is rapidly going to grow to the point at which it can’t do that. And then, I expect, to the point at which it dies slowly because it doesn’t fit in the bottle at all. Breaking the bottle would be the only way to get it out and would be dangerous to the chick. On topic, if this has ever really been done, I wish all the bad karma on the “inventor”. Sounds like a very cruel thing to do to a living being. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jugging-chickens/998289/24 "2024-03-04T00:38:25Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > On topic, if this has ever really been done, I wish all the bad karma on the “inventor”. Sounds like a very cruel thing to do to a living being. Hence the expression “Jug not lest ye be jugged.” ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jugging-chickens/998289/25 "2024-03-04T00:57:59Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > if this has ever really been done Yeah, I’m hoping that it’s a myth, maybe some sort of misunderstanding of a container that could be opened; or that at worst it was a one-off. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jugging-chickens/998289/26 "2024-03-04T17:12:45Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > he ran a large pullet concern. 2 very long chicken houses. A big named chicken corporation would bring chicks. He would tend to the houses and chicks, with help from his not-so-smart hired men. > Every morning the dead were cleared out. There are people throughout Arkansas (and other parts of the country) that continue to make a living this way. They call them “growers” and they are paid so many cents a pound upon delivery of the pullets to the processing factory. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jugging-chickens/998289/27 "2024-03-05T07:01:59Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > On topic, if this has ever really been done In the early 2000s, there was a shock site touting “bonsai kittens” using this exact method. So I suspect this is just a more recent re-run of the concept, designed to cause a reaction > **[Bonsai Kitten](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai_Kitten)** > > Bonsai Kitten was a hoax website that claimed to instruct readers how to raise a kitten in a jar, so as to mold the bones of the kitten into the shape of the jar as the cat grows in the same way as a bonsai plant. It was made by an MIT student going by the alias of Dr. Michael Wong Chang. The website generated fury with many people taking it as serious and complaining to animal rights organizations. The Michigan Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MSPCA) stated that "while the si On... ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2024, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jugging-chickens/998289/28 "2024-04-02T15:35:05Z")
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