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Chicken companies prevent chicken from sleeping to keep them eating around the clock (lemmy.zip)

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US chicken companies pioneered restricting sleep to keep birds eating around the clock.

A new study (Li et al., 2026) recommends giving chickens just 2 hours of darkness nightly to maximize the time they spend eating. The study and photo are Chinese.

We know chickens have far better hapiness with 7–8 hours of darkness to sleep.

But they eat more and grow faster when they are sleep deprived.

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[–] natecox@programming.dev 16 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Chicken owner here: you can indeed absolutely tell what a chicken is feeling because they have a wide range emotions they will loudly tell you all about.

All my birds are like this. They're very expressive.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago

Very, very loudly lol.