Chapter 101: If You're a Chicken
Wang Yang deeply regretted the extinction incident of hens eating their own eggs, and said that he would deal with it seriously and never tolerate the bad impact caused by this incident.
But there is an important question, why do they eat their own eggs?
As mentioned earlier, the guinea pig eats children, because their breath is too chaotic, they all think that they are not their own children, so they kill them to reduce the competition for survival.
But do chickens do the same?
Wang Yang is not very sure, he does not know much about the specific information of biology, has no concept of breeding, and will not draw conclusions.
However, he has some understanding of why animals kill their children, thanks to one of his biology teachers.
Before the end of class, the teacher assigned a very strange and tricky question, why do animals kill their children?
Of course, Wang Yang also had to find information. He checked, and the results surprised him, it turned out that the mothers in the animal kingdom were not as beautiful as he imagined.
For example, the egret will look at the larger child and peck the smaller child to death, and it will be next to it the whole time, but it will not stop it at all, and even be in the mood to comb its own feathers.
This is not difficult to understand, the law of the jungle is the strong, and the winning side has a better chance of survival.
In other words, the rabbit will also kill its own children, and when it feels a predator attacking outside in the nest, it will kill the child unhurriedly and then eat it.
The reason is that it feels uneasy and hopeless.
It sounds bizarre and cruel, but it's a similar scene that often happens.
However, Wang Yang is very relieved about his rabbits, he has raised you for so long, and you are still afraid that I can't say it.
So he didn't think his rabbit would have any desperate moments.
Back to business, rabbits and chickens are two different things, why do chickens peck at their own eggs?
Is it because I was angry from the fight, and I felt that I couldn't beat it and I was going to lose the egg, so I pecked the egg with the idea that I can't get it, and you don't want to get it?
Definitely not! Wang Yang's lack of knowledge in this area does not mean that he will not think about it, and what kind of calculation will not happen here.
He decided to substitute into the world of chickens and try to understand as much as possible what chickens think.
He started with a slow-motion replay.
First, the two hens were eating the eggs, and then the eggs broke, and "Female No. 1" withdrew her beaked beak and fought with "Female No. 2".
"Female No. 2" retracted the foot that had been kicked out at the beginning, and the two hens faced each other under the coop, staring at each other.
Let's go back to positive reasoning, why are the two hens fighting? **Fight? Don't like each other? Prettier than yourself?
Definitely not!
From the reverse reasoning, they fight for the eggs, because in the end they are all eating eggs.
However, they are very harmonious when eating eggs, and there is no competition, indicating that their goal is not eggs.
Push a little further and ignore the egg, what are they fighting for?
Wang raised his eyebrows: "Chicken nest? ”
There is only one chicken coop, because there is only one chicken coop, which is very small and very small, and Wang Yang built the chicken coop purely to isolate the chicken boss and the civet cat.
I didn't think of anything else, so I just took a few planks and built them randomly.
At first, the chicken boss didn't want to be his own nest, but then he was drenched in the soup by the torrential rain and the chicken obediently lived in.
After that, the "female No. 1" moved in, and the "female No. 2" moved in, and after a period of life, they all regarded the chicken coop as the goal of building a chicken coop.
On rainy days, the three chickens are barely squeezed inside, looking at the chicken brother who is exposed to the sun and the wind and the rain.
But as the days passed, the breeding season arrived, and they began to build chicken coops.
The chicken coop is mostly made of dry hay and feathers, which is both warm and comfortable.
Helplessly, Wang Yang locked them in the canyon every day, unable to find so much hay, and he was too busy to pay attention to this aspect, resulting in a scarcity of materials.
also indirectly caused the tragedy of "exploiting" the chicken brother.
Finally, it was not easy to build a nest, and the "female No. 2" took the lead, first laid one egg, and then laid three eggs, and had four eggs.
Until this time, there was no fight, and the nest was occupied by it, and the "female number one" had no opinion.
But the problem came the next day, the "Female No. 1" stargazed at the starry statue at night, sensed the commotion in the abdomen, and understood that she was about to lay eggs and had to find a place.
Looking all over the canyon, there are only caves and chicken coops where you can be protected from wind and rain.
It is impossible to go to the cave, there are so many idle people there, and in the depths of the cave there are big rats with thieves and rat eyes, as well as enemies who have made life and death enemies, it is not stable, and it cannot fight.
The chicken coop is different, closed on three sides, the terrain is higher, when it rains, the water does not flow in, and there is a nest built with the "female No. 2", which is warm and comfortable, and it is a good place to lay eggs.
Immediately, it "communicated" with the "Female No. 2" on this issue, but the "Female No. 2" wanted to hatch eggs, and her tone was tough, her attitude was bad, and she refused to let it live or die, so she had to teach it a lesson.
And so the first struggle took place quietly.
Wang Yang smiled dumbly, whether the real situation was like this or not, he thought it was very interesting.
"It turns out that the chickens are also worried about the house."
But there is another difficult explanation, that is, why do they peck eggs themselves?
It stands to reason that if the "Female No. 2" wants to regain the chicken coop, she should not take the form of fighting, but should take the initiative to peck the egg of the "Female No. 1" and make it die.
But it was the "Female No. 1" who took the initiative to peck the eggs, and the situation was evenly matched at that time, and the "Female No. 1" had no reason to take the initiative to give up her eggs, and offered the chicken nest to the "Female No. 2".
Unless...... The mother chickens think that if they keep fighting, the eggs will not hatch, and they will not hatch anyway, so it is better to eat them themselves.
Or ...... Do they really think their eggs are delicious?
Wang Yang has no way to make a conclusion, he can assume that he is a chicken and rationalize the behavior of chickens, but in the end, he is not a chicken, and only the chickens themselves know what they think.
Wang Yang still needs more observation and more breeding to understand the mystery.
What can be done now is to expand the coop and help the hens build another nest by the way, and see how they react without fighting.
He spent two days making the long planks, which were rough and uneven in length, but they were able to create a comfortable shelter from the wind and rain.
He made a chicken coop three times larger than the previous one at once, and the chicken coop was not very strong, and it would fall over after a few hard touches.
The next day, he went to collect some hay, then plucked some feathers from the chicken boss and the chicken brother, put them in the chicken coop, and let them build their own nests.
With the materials, soon, another nest was built.
Now both hens are squatting in their nests, laying eggs, and all they have to do is to watch and see if they will eat the eggs.