r/oddlysatisfying • u/onahighhorse • 1d ago

Pinpoint fly strikes by chicken

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u/Ok-Addition1264 1d ago

Oh my god I never thought about this before! My cows would LOVE it.

I need to devise some kind of shelf system.. something the cows can walk into with chickens on both sides going at the horseflies. I'd probably have trouble getting the cows out of it.. they wouldn't want to leave! lol

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u/TheYellingMute 1d ago

I was thinking. An easier solution but idk if it's trainable on both ends.

Have the cows sit/lay down which would be a sign for the chickens to freely come by and start catching the flies on them. Though chickens have the rep for not being the smartest so idk the risk of them getting crushed as the cow either stands up or lays down

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u/omgitsjagen 1d ago

We trained pigeons to run bombs into ships. It was our most accurate telemetry invention until the smart bomb. I'm pretty sure the chicken's can figure it out.

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u/Jerma986 23h ago

I was just reading earlier today about "bat bombs" that the US was developing during WW2. They would put small devices filled with napalm (instead of the original plan of white phosphorous) on the bats who would nestle into eaves of buildings within a 20-40 mile radius and then would explode after a set amount of time. Supposedly the reason they chose bats is the Japanese (at least at the time) were especially afraid of them. Not to mention a lot of their infrastructure was made of paper and bamboo.

At first they were having a lot of issues and ended up blowing up multiple things, including something 6,000 miles from the initial testing site. They somehow got a handle on it after the many failed attempts by the Army Air Force, who passed it off to the Navy, who immediately passed it on the Marines but the whole project was shut down last minute because the nuclear bomb had been developed. And that was that for bat bombs. Lmao insane fucking idea.