Avian Livestock
Added 2018-07-11 22:00:01 +0000 UTCThinking of some alien livestock, finally. Most avians turn to the sea for meat (since their planet is 90% sea) but on the biggest island flightless avians keep terrestrial livestock. These hooved turkeys are bred for meat, eggs, and feathers.
The eggs are more akin to roe than chicken eggs. Given how this clade reproduces seahorse style, you also have to uh.... "milk" them for it :|
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oooomg. hooved turkeys. (hurkeys?) what a marvel.
Kristen King
2022-01-02 04:36:35 +0000 UTCHonestly, this issue has happened plenty between avians... before all the sapient species in the family were well known, a lot of animals were regarded with suspicion and assumed intelligence, and a lot of avian racists used the physical similarities of "lesser" sapients to beasts/livestock to justify abusing them.
Jay Eaton
2018-07-14 14:45:26 +0000 UTCNice! Are the surrogates caponized males, males of non-hybridizing species, or decoys made of wood and painted by local children? :)
Daniel Bensen
2018-07-14 13:52:14 +0000 UTCthe livestock look similar enough to the avians that it begs me to think of the scenario where someone, with very little knowledge or experience with avians or avian culture, might rudely mistake them for being relatives of their herder.
they_walks
2018-07-14 08:09:22 +0000 UTCIt involves either providing a surrogate male to mate with and collect roe (the domestics aren't that picky, especially if there are no real males around) or... uh.... manual stimulation ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Delicious! Farm fresh!
Jay Eaton
2018-07-13 14:42:49 +0000 UTCAww. Milking chicken-fish sounds very inconvenient. Are all the eggs fertilized? If so, how does the farmer fool the animal into letting go of its eggs? If not, why does the female bother passing them into the male's pouch? I assume there's some trickery involved on the part of the farmer. :)
Daniel Bensen
2018-07-12 06:39:18 +0000 UTC
