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Baroque Bloke |
When I was a boy, we kept chickens. For eggs and chicken-every-Sunday. I used to “hypnotize” chickens. Lay one flat on its back, stroke its head, and it would go to sleep in about a minute. It would then be a couple of minutes before it would wake up. Odd, but true! Most often I did it just for fun, but also to make it easy to chop its head off. Handy skill! Serious about crackers | ||
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Nosce te ipsum |
I briefly dated a vegan who could hypnotize a chicken. | |||
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Unhyphenated American |
How do you keep it still long enough to put it on it's back? __________________________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. Richard M Nixon It's nice to be important, it's more important to be nice. Billy Joe Shaver NRA Life Member | |||
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| Baroque Bloke |
It was no problem – the chickens were used to me. I fed them and collected eggs. They were calm when I picked them up. This thread was prompted by an article I read that said chickens could recognize human faces, and they clearly recognized me. Serious about crackers | |||
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Optimistic Cynic |
So the ones whose head you chopped off weren't squawking to their buddies? | |||
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We do that to our pet rabbits sometimes when we want to trim their nails if they do not cooperate and call it trancing. http://www.mybunnies.com/trance.htm | |||
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| Happiness is Vectored Thrust  |
Yes, but did it a different way. Push their neck down against the ground and draw a line in the sand running out away from their beak about a foot. Repeat that several times and they are glued to looking at the line. Plenty of time to go get the hatchet or whatnot. Icarus flew too close to the sun, but at least he flew. | |||
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| Do No Harm, Do Know Harm |
Hmm...wish I’d known that when I was growing up. Had more than one chicken run around with a half-chopped of head due to their wriggling. Gators do that too. Lay them on their back and they go to sleep. Knowing what one is talking about is widely admired but not strictly required here. Although sometimes distracting, there is often a certain entertainment value to this easy standard. -JALLEN "All I need is a WAR ON DRUGS reference and I got myself a police thread BINGO." -jljones | |||
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E tan e epi tas |
Say what now?? Can you get one to climb into a bucket? Maybe get one to cluck like a human?  "Guns are tools. The only weapon ever created was man." | |||
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| Leave the gun. Take the cannoli. |
Never mind. I thought this was about an Iggy Pop song. | |||
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No, but I've choked one. ____________________ | |||
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Fortified with Sleestak |
Tucking their head under their wing puts them out as well. I have the heart of a lion.......and a lifetime ban from the Toronto Zoo.- Unknown | |||
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Never got that cozy with a chicken. My first job on the farm that I recall at about age 5 was holding the chicken on the stump while my Mom swung the axe. That experience probably influenced my choice of careers later in life.... CMSGT USAF (Retired) Chief of Police (Retired) | |||
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Is that what they called it when you were a kid?  _____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911. | |||
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Sometimes I feel pretty bold, but I'm not about to try that! God bless America. | |||
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I learned to do that in South America. One of the local men would tuck the chicken's head under its wing, then pick the chicken up and waive it around in a vertical circular motion, like an "O", and then set it down. It would just stay there immobilized for quite a while. When I tried it, it worked like a charm. . | |||
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Step by step walk the thousand mile road |
Super glue. A thousand and three uses. Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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Animal folks call this a tonic state or tonic immobility. There’s a fellow in Jupiter, FL I’ve watched do this to sharks. He then removes fishing hooks. Less is more. | |||
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes |
The head under the wing and wave them around method is the way that guys that run canned pheasant hunts plant the birds in the field before the hunters come along a while later. _______________________ “There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.” ― Frank Zappa | |||
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I'll take your word for that.  ________________________ "Television is called a medium because nothing on it is well done." -- Fred Allen | |||
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