It gives chickens the freedom to forage outside of the chickenyard and in the garden without fear of getting eaten. You pop a chicken in the Orb, secure the orb gate, escort the chicken to a suitable foraging area, and away they go.
The chicken moves the orb in its desired direction, foraging bugs and foliage.
When foraging time is up, simply escort them back to the enclosure and release back into the coop.
Hmm, could this also work for larger animals and would it be fox and wolfsafe..?
Could actually be a way to get caninehaters that put up smorgasboards with food everywhere and then get surprised that odd time when an animal takes a snack on the go because well taking the animals inside or keeping them safe at night and so on is of course inconcievable for some reason.
YOU LIVE IN ZE ORB
is it compatible with roosters?
I just fit my chickens with a Man-portable TOW launcher. Those coyotes never knew what hit them
>steals your cagecluck
wtf this isn't natural
NOW we chorbin'
Alright, we're half way to the perfect egg farm. Now we just need to put in in a vacuum and the math will work itself out.
How do they get out? How do you get them in there? How do you get the eggs out??
All I gotta say is that my hens free range without the orb or a fence and freedom ain't free.
they will constantly hurt their neck and feet. predators can still hurt or kill them, while the chicken cant escape, they cant run fast, fly or hide with this thing.
chickens can't fly, hide or run fast in the general case
Your chickens suck, bro
All animals should be put into orbs. Yes, even the microscopic ones.
I like your thinking!
>I posted this a few hours before cormac mccarthy died
holy frick
Why don't we have cat orbs? Seems like a way to let them out without them killing birds or getting easily eaten.
Also, for a moment I was afraid these were chicken orbs in the sense of "tick orb."
Cats usually dont get eaten, they're very smart at getting away. Unless you live in cayote territory then all pets are getting eaten
>cats usually don't get eaten
birds of prey are impossible for them to avoid, and because of domestication they hang out in the open. they also get killed by dogs quite often.
The reason why outdoor cats have significantly shorter average livespans than indoor cats is that most of them get eaten. It's not disease or fighting, it's predation.
Growing up, my mother insisted on getting us cats, and letting them outside, and of 12 I can remember the names of, 3 died of old age or cancer or whatever, and the other 9 ended up getting eaten by something.
Maybe if you live in a rural area they get eaten. If you live in the suburbs or city I think most just end up squarshed or poisoned.
Depends on the area, but in most of the US, urban coyotes are a huge contributor to cat mortality. Foxes eat them too.
>If you live in the suburbs or city I think most just end up squarshed or poisoned.
>the girls watching the fence for another snack:
>the neighborhood birdchad watching from a tree waiting to deliver karma to the first cat that relaxes for five seconds
Imagine being the first person to die from their skull getting Super Monkey Balled on by the neighbour's obese ginger frick rolling itself off the roof.
What is a tick orb?
nothing, what's a tick orb with you?
There's an anon famously trying to make a ball of resin and preserved swollen ticks
>why dont we make it easy for subhumans to catch and torture cats
not to mention their way of walking around is completely restricted. just put them on a leash at that point.
I want a chicken orb for humans
Pretty sure those exist
Chickens scratch and dignthroufh the ground and foilage. Your chastity cage for chickens is dumb and massively hinders their ability to search for, hunt and eat their prey.
The only video footage that isn't by the inventor I can find is one silkie constantly stumbling while trying to walk, but it might just be too small a breed for the orb.
I can appreciate the idea wanting to keep the birds safe without cooping them up all day, yet it looks a little too clunky to move around in.
I don't even keep chickens but I'm now envisioning all sorts of strategies, one being picrel which I shittely shooped together for laughs. It's based on the collars of sheep dogs in wolf or bear territory, but the chickens would probably hurt eachother as well, get stuck in shit all the time and I would also frick myself over if I had to retrieve them lmao.
>punk chickens
Neat
>one being picrel which I shittely shooped together for laughs
Not at all, I was expecting this to be a real product.
cluck cage
jej
hehehe
This is dumb as shit.
1) Most animals that would carry the chicken could just as easily carry the orb with the chicken inside.
2) Animals that attack the chicken first still have a huge chance of hurting/maiming/killing it in the cage.
3) This is all assuming the cage even survives an attack. It looks fragile as shit.
>Most animals that would carry the chicken could just as easily carry the orb with the chicken inside.
would they, though? I know some birds are smart but consider a chicken hawk or whatever. would it be clever enough to know that pick up orb = pick up chicken = meal?
asking genuinely, I have no idea how smart predatory birds are
They're slightly smarter than mammalian predators.
Just completely soulless, to make room in their skull. Which actually makes them much more efficient problem solvers than an equally intelligent mammal.
>be hawk
>pick orb
BirbWhut.gif
>drop
>be chicken
>flightless until hawk cousin shows up
>soaring through air
>suddenly faster
>suddenly too faster
>explode
I think the predatory birds will be alright anon
most animals wouldn't be able to get their snout through the holes, much less pull the chicken out. the idea isn't to 100% stop predation but rather deter it / buy them time
i could see a fox or yote carrying it off but even if they did, they would still have a hard time getting at the chicken within
The mammals that have gotten my chickens usually pull them off into the woods asap while the bird makes a LOT of noise, and often I manage to run them down because chickens are pretty heavy for them to carry. Such an orb would make it much more of a pain in the ass for a fox to haul one off. They couldn't possibly pick the whole ball up, so they'd have to drag it, and the bird is going to be going ballistic inside.
Giving just one minute of delay on their hunt would dramatically decrease lazily supervised free range fatalities, and I bet a wire orb could do that.
I doubt it. Predatory birds usually can't do shit to kill anything unless they pin it with their talons, and they can't do that through the orb. Probably they'd dive in, grab the cage, end up rolling onto the ground. Since the chicken is actually free inside, the orb is going to be rolling all over the place as it freaks the frick out, and the raptor will be forced to let go after getting tossed around for a while. Even if they don't, I doubt much damage could be done. Usually the swoop and crush does most of the work, and the cage would protect really well against that. At any rate, you'll know something is up and be able to go out and shoo the hawk or whatever away.
Idk man. Had a day where I found three dead chickens before I had a rooster and figured they were smart enough to fend from predation.
I should say, I found two completely headless chicken corpses, and a pile of feathers, and a missing third chicken who never returned.
The only true chicken defense is a bad mawfrickin rooster.
Wage cages for men and slave spheres for their animals. A match made in heaven
why don't you just weaponize your chickens?
How do you get the tape off without waxing the hamster?
once weaponized, the hamster can never return to a normal life again. the tape will always remain.
We cant go back to Arizona
Alas never leave how without your kmife.
>Rats In Amnesia the Bunker be like:
Dorb. While wearing they can never die.
Silly deer
Byron has escaped the dark continent????
My husky would probably kill it anyways and then bring me the orb as a prize
Thanks for the free chicken bro but please fence your farm. Chickens destroy everything they touch.
Depends on the crop.
They'll go through my garden and eat fresh weed sprouts and bugs but leave my crops alone (once they're no longer fresh sprouts).
Totally dependant on crop of course.
They won't eat garlic, onion, tomatoes, green beans or peas but they'll eat any type of greens like collard, spinach, kale, radish or carrot tops.
>they'll just eat everything but the potatoes
Wonderful. They wreck ornamental plants too. I had sumac sprouts, I was glad they came up, they were just getting started, I was going to have a whole colony, I was hyped. A chicken flew in and totally destroyed them down to the stalks.
>My husky
Stopped reading right there
Strange but alright. Wouldn't predators still be able to get at chickens that have their heads poking out of the orb?
I think predatory birds would be able to kill and eat the chickens through the orb
I dunno man. Where I live the chickens roam through a lot of bushes and thorns, I think the orb would get entangled
wow, i love the chicken orb
That dog looks somewhat intimidated
Is this what they meant by intruding in God's domain?
>soon