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Chicken diapers
Syonyk:
https://theoutline.com/post/5608/bury-me-in-chicken-diapers?zd=1&zi=cz2ecipt
Some highlights:
--- Quote ---Baker currently sells 500 to 1,000 diapers, which retail for $18 apiece, each month.
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In wealthy cities like San Francisco, chickens have even become an unlikely status symbol, with poultry owners going to unimaginable lengths to care for their pets. As The Washington Post reported in March, certain chicken owners have hired “chicken whisperers” to consult on their pets’ comfort (to the tune of $225 per hour). These nouveau livestock enthusiasts have also been known to invest in personal chefs for their birds, and some have even installed smartphone-enabled, motion-detecting coops that control ventilation, temperature, lighting, and security from afar (ballpark cost: $20,000).
“We spend an insane amount of money. We thought we’d feed them leftovers, but our chickens end up eating grilled salmon, steak, fresh lettuce and organic watermelon,” one chicken owner, Amina Azhar-Graham, told the Post.
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Baker has begun selling another upscale chicken accessory, this one without much of a function — the chicken dress. She currently offers $15 blue-or-purple tutus alongside more upscale nightgowns marketed “for the fashion-conscious hen.” Baker estimates that chicken dresses comprise 10 percent of her business, amounting to about 100 dresses sold per month. “You [used to] put a dress on your chihuahua. Now people are putting a dress on their chicken,” Baker said.
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Wow. I guess you can sell nonsense to enough people to make a very comfortable living...
OtherJen:
I had to check the web address because this looks like an Onion article.
Kimera757:
I think it might be valuable if:
A) You're doing a ridiculous movie.
B) You're taking one or more chickens on an airplane or a bus. (That shouldn't be allowed though.)
I wonder if that qualifies as animal cruelty. It's entirely for the human's benefit. Birds don't have bladders (that's one reason birds drop guano on people, or just all over the place; I guess carrying that is too much for an animal that needs to stay light to fly). So the bird will be constantly excreting onto a piece of "clothing" that is right next to its skin.
Sometimes I think that social media is ruining all of our lives, but honestly, this kind of nonsense predated social media a long time ago. If we didn't have social media or the internet, people could still send Polaroids of their tutu-wearing chickens to all their friends and family in exchange for ... social status?
TheGrimSqueaker:
--- Quote from: Kimera757 on August 05, 2018, 06:43:50 PM ---I think it might be valuable if:
A) You're doing a ridiculous movie.
B) You're taking one or more chickens on an airplane or a bus. (That shouldn't be allowed though.)
I wonder if that qualifies as animal cruelty. It's entirely for the human's benefit. Birds don't have bladders (that's one reason birds drop guano on people, or just all over the place; I guess carrying that is too much for an animal that needs to stay light to fly). So the bird will be constantly excreting onto a piece of "clothing" that is right next to its skin.
Sometimes I think that social media is ruining all of our lives, but honestly, this kind of nonsense predated social media a long time ago. If we didn't have social media or the internet, people could still send Polaroids of their tutu-wearing chickens to all their friends and family in exchange for ... social status?
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I could see something like this if you're transporting birds to or from a show or race, where they need to be clean and presentable but it's only a short distance away.
neophyte:
I thought this was going to be about those absorbant pads under the chicken in the bottom of the meat trays because I always call those "meat diapers." This is more entertaining.
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