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Abbi Vincent-Lloyd said she lost 30 hens on days when balloons were flying low over her Herefordshire farm. She claimed the stress of seeing the enormous balloons overhead caused them to run for cover.
It is as they desperately try to find shelter that they bump into each other or their surroundings, exploding the eggs inside them, she said.
This in turn causes an infection, which is thought to have led to scores of them dying…
“I told the vet about the hot-air balloons and jets flying low over the farm and straight away he said that was the cause…
“It is absolute chaos, when they go into anything and that causes the egg to explode inside them. “The fragments of the egg and its contents then infect them and then they die from it – it’s a horrible way to go.”
I spent an enjoyable portion of my youth on a poultry farm. I know that turkeys are stupid enough to stare at the sky when it starts to rain – and drown.
I have never before heard of exploding chickens.
Thanks, Justin [I think]
It’s not the chicken that explodes.
It’s an explosive egg-bortion.
Good reason to repeal Prop 2 in California, and stop donating to Humane Society which backed this stupid proposition, and then to spend countless hours watching jokes on SNL about how Ellen still can’t figure out if it’s the chicken or the egg that first exploded in her face.
There’s nothing new about deadly chickens.
This is all not true, I work with chickens everyday for research. We will regularly find hens with up to a dozen eggs at all stages of development. These bird continued to lay and are in good health. The hen will simple absorb the egg back into its system, or It will remain in her body cavity until death. Stress of balloon and jet traffic may disturb egg lay, but not kill a single chicken unless it crashes in the hen house.
I know some people reckon its best to hold/move chickens but holding their feet rather than their bodies in case eggs break inside them. It does kinda beg the question though, is the fault with the hot air balloons and jet fighters or should the person have some more field shelters so they have somewhere to run to. Woodland is often an ideal place for chickens for that reason (although it is a pain to fence).
Chickens are stupid. Simple solution: build a roof over the chicken house so they can’t see balloons, airplanes, chicken hawks, or anything else in the sky. That’s how most chicken houses are made.
In Soviet Russia, hot air balloons explode nuclear submarines.
Maybe the chicken feed came from China?
where the hell do hot air balloons and jet fight fliy in the same skys???
The perils of free range chickens for eggs.
We get shade grown free range organic chicken eggs, just becasue of this.
#9: Albuquerque, during the Balloon Fiesta. The only chicken ranch in the area has a roof, though.
Eideard said, “I know that turkeys are stupid enough to stare at the sky when it starts to rain – and drown.”
Hmm. Don’t think so.
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“but I don’t want to be in a pie”
But…. whoever took this picture of Ms. Lloyd… STOLE HER SOUL!! That’s about how backward one has to be to put any stock in this claim of hers.
There will always be the gullible that believe anything they read.