Today you learned

If they aren't supposed to be cannibals then why the hell does their meat taste like chicken?

I am an eye witness to such an event of chickens eating meat. Not chicken meat, but either beef or lamb.

Chickens will eat almost anything. I once saw a chicken grab a frog and swallow it whole. One of its legs was hanging out of her mouth the rest of the day. She was fine afterwards.
Eggs are also especially tasty to them. You can feed them cooked eggs (very nutritious), but if they ever get ahold of a broken egg and realize how tasty they are, they can start eating their freshly laid eggs before you can collect them.
I saw a squirrel eat an injured pigeon once. Nature is metal.
Now I'm picturing a chicken pecking at a cow.

Reminds me of Batman and his sprays against everything.

Can they reverse engineer this and have a spray that encourages cannibalism?

I have the funniest idea for my next family dinner

Yeah np
Lemmy has now redeemed the second of three wishes.
- Oh shit. For the 3rd wish, can musk fuck off forever?
You dont need to encourage the chickens to eat other chicken. That would be like wanting a spray that makes people like pizza.

Chicken will eat one another if they are in distress. It doesn't have to be starvation. It can be too many chickens packed into a small space.

Or one of them could scratch themselves on a fence and the smell of blood sets off a fucking frenzy.
They are dinosaurs bro.
- This happens with pigs, had to separate them when a baby was born ( I would have separated beforehand, but wasn't up to me) but yeah they'll eat all that stuff and occasionally a baby.
If you packed me like that with other humans, I would probably get pretty hangry and start taking bites out of the person next to me.

Reduces, not prevents 😅

It sounds shocking at first, but then you realize they are all made of chicken…

"Easy to Use". I certainly hope so, it's a fucking spray bottle. What's the hard to use option? Waiting until a new moon to summon Ba-Kok, God of Chickens to ask for a stay of cannibalism?

I think i just got to that part of Cult of the Lamb
Ba-Kok, God of Chickens
This keeps getting funnier the more times I read it. Good show.
No, it's only possible to talk to Ba-Kok, praise be His name, when the planets align.
Rise, chicken. Chicken, arise.
Bruh, if there's a "spray" AND "stream" option on my spray bottle, I'll just lock up with indecision. Ease of use is very important when dealing with spray bottles.
- Do you need to cover a larger area? Spray.
  Do you need precision, or to get a hard to reach spot? Stream.
  Understanding what we need is the first step of action.
The "hard" option is to just get rid of the hen that turned cannibal. It's going to be just one, unless you're running an egg factory level operation. Give the hens more space and actual yard time, and most will stop pecking. The one that doesn't goes in the soup pot.
- Do cannibal chickens taste more like chicken, if you are what you eat? Can I compress a hyperchicken if I create a gu pot of chickens with the most chicken-rific umami flavour.
ARISE CHICKEN
I mean, it could come in suppository form....
- Have you tried shoving something up a species cloaca?
  We'd have more dead chicken farmers.
- Well then good news!
Oops you drew the summoning sigils wrong again.

There is a dedicated ICD-10 medical code for “eye pecked out by a chicken”. They’re vicious little fuckers.

The ICD list has some insane stuff.
Y36511D: War operations involving direct blast effect of nuclear weapon, civilian, subsequent encounter
One of mine pecked the contact lens out of my eye. Went to the ER to have my eye checked, and they asked me if my wife had hit me. It took me a while to convince them it really was a chicken. Then they laughed.
They are highly evolved dinosaurs.

Even chickens think chickens are tasty.

Reminds me of this eating another bird

Didn't know chickens ate each other, at least not without frying

Birds will eat anything if they're hungry and/or bored enough. Eggshells are actually (usually) good for them because of high calcium content.
- "Eggshells are actually (usually) good for them because of high calcium content."
  Given that producing eggs must use up a bunch of calcium, this makes sense, in a "circle of life kind of way

Chickens are modern dinosaurs

Here's the important question: do you spray it on the cannibal, or the victim?

Do you think this is about chickens or about the way chickens are raised? Are chickens in the wild cannibalistic? This makes me not want to eat chicken ever again.

Chickens are opportunistic omnivores. They will eat their dead, they will eat others eggs, they will eat their own goddamn eggs, if in desperate need.
If that bothers you, never look into pigs and wild boar.
- Hell, they'll eat their own eggs just because. Don't even need to be desperate. Chickens be brutal lol
- Realistically is there an animal that isn't?
Wild chickens do this, yeah. They'll insistently peck at anything red, this spray is usually for if a bird is injured to stop others or themselves pecking it and making it worse
you can also use it to help deter roosters who are getting too violent on hens, as they'll peck and pull out feathers during the mating process
Chickens will definitely pick and peck at each other until things get ugly, even with all possible room to roam. It isn't caused by poor conditions like too small cages and such, but factory level conditions definitely make the problem worse.
You can have an acre and a handful of hens, and they'll at least occasionally peck at each other. The problem really only starts when there's an injury, or conditions prevent a bird from moving away from more peck heavy birds. You don't want an injured chicken kept with the flock. It isn't even necessarily eating the injured bird out of some kind of prey drive. They just go at even minor wounds.
Now, with enough space and care being taken, that isn't likely to result in death. But it can, no matter how much room is involved if you don't isolate injured birds.
I'm not sure exactly how "wild" you're thinking, since you aren't going to run into truly wild chickens in most places. But feral ones that started as kept birds, those you'll find in plenty of places. Our neighborhood has two flocks that started from abandoned birds something like twenty years ago. And they'll definitely eat the hell out of one of their own if it gets sick or injured. And they'll absolutely eat one of their own that gets killed by a car or whatever.
We have a partly feral hen that decided she owns our yard. A while back, her comb got injured, and we had to keep our other hen inside long enough for the injury to heal, since we couldn't catch the volunteer hen. They see a little blood, and they're like "yum!", the same as they do when they see a worm or bug or even a piece of meat.
And chickens will eat any meat they can get to. Chicken is even considered a good food for chickens. Won't hurt them, plenty of protein, and they'll gladly pick the bones clean of scraps.
- I've seen chicken roaming the streets, sitting in planters, generally acting like feral cats in Key West. They didn't seem mean. I really thought they ate plants and bugs and things. I bet they eat a lot of dead lizards there.
- Chicken is even considered a good food for chickens. Won't hurt them, plenty of protein, and they'll gladly pick the bones clean of scraps
  That's what they used to say about cows too...
Shouldn't you eat even more chicken, to save the world from the cannibals?
- We do sometimes justify going to Chick-fil-A as only eating the homophobic chickens.
Chickens are omnivores. They will eat anything they can get their beaks on. I saw them eat mice, dead rats, their own eggs, other chickens.
Chickens also have a very brutal pecking order. The chickens on the lower end of that order will get bullied pretty bad and lose feathers. Once they draw blood the other chickens my join in and peck the wounded chicken and break away pieces of it or even kill it.
This is the worst if the chickens are stressed but it happens even in chickens that are living in good conditions. One of the better way to counter it is to have a rooster with the chickens as the rooster will reprimand the bullies and break any fights between hens. A lot of chicken farmers don't want to do that though because roosters will fight each other to death if you put multiple in the same enclosure and in the case of egg laying chickens they don't lay eggs and will mate with the chickens which makes them lay fertilized eggs.
My family used to raise chickens when I was a kid. The chickens were free-range (only house for like a mile), but they had a coop to eat and nest in, which we shut every night. When getting new chickens to add to the flock (neighbor has too many, etc), we'd keep them in a "chicken tractor" for a few weeks (basically a small, mobile chicken coop). I guess that gave everyone time to get used to each other's smells or something, because the few times we didn't do that the new chickens would get pecked in the head by the locals, and once the locals realize that the new ones taste like blood it's pretty much over for the new chickens.
The way chicken are raised
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism_in_poultry