Down in Brazil, my grandfather used to shoot salt at the thieves climbing the trees to steal the chickens.
> shoot salt
I feel you might need to expand here
Chickens in Trees
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#22Now I have that darn Sesame Street song stuck in my head. There are chickens in the trees There are chickens in the trees Won't you listen to me please There are chickens in the trees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCsY3REaADo
Cities in Flight is what immediately sprang to my mind
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#24Mark Twain wrote some humorous bits about how chickens may be enticed out of a neighbor's tree by sliding a warm board under their feet. They'll step on happily, and can then be conveyed to a convenient sack en route to the kitchen.
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#25The domesticated chicken (Gallus domesticus) is a "curated" version of the Red junglefowl (Gallus gallus) which lives wild in the tropics, can fly short distances and is still entirely capable of breeding with chickens. The parks of Singapore are full of the things, and it's not unusual to see one strutting past the chicken rice stall at a hawker center, clucking at its unfortunate relatives that have been poached and strung up by their feet.
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#26Interesting timing: rogue chickens in the UK causing mayhem to locals because 200 chooks in the woods is ... noisy.
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#27On population control... Are they generally considered safe to eat? That's the first thing I think of in this case...
The meat would probably be really tough. I'd think the only acceptable preparation would be braising or confit. They probably have a lot more parasites (worms) than you'd be used to as well.
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#28The argon tree (as in the argon oil in your shampoos and soaps) is also known as the "goat tree". Please peruse these phenomenal photos of trees completely full of goats. Everyone of them looks like an album cover for some mid-00s indie band https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/tree-goats-of-morocco-argan... https://www.google.com/search?q=argon+goat&udm=2
I’ve seen both chickens and goats in trees in Germany. It occurs naturally if the owner doesn’t care to much. Of course the goat will eat all the leaves and the tree will die eventually.
I really like the pictures from Morroco though, thank you!
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#29Fascinating. The massive variance in the percentage of chickens that prefer roosting off the ground is interesting. I wonder what environmental pressures drives this decision.
Fox and maybe raccoon are the driving factors where I live. I have also seen cats going for younger smaller chickens. If the owner offers a safe shed which is closed up by night, there is no need for the chickens to rest in trees. They will voluntarily enter the shed in the evening.
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#30Chickens can also swim
Interesting, do you have any sources or pictures?