Hypnotising Chickens

Hypnotising Chicken. 1934. A British Pathe classic sees a young man in Slaley, Northumberland, shows us how to mesmerise a chicken by drawing a white chalk line on the ground. A slow news week in 1934 perhaps?

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• Category

  Pets & Animals

[Naeuio]

That's why the chicken did not cross the road

[mettalx1]

Someone please explain!

[WeedHeadPig]

its very easy that white line is cocaine so the chicken is not looking at it but instead he is using it

[LowryderKid]

did it work?

[HalfMonty11]

Heh, it's just a chicken thing, no training. You can do it with any chicken and it doesn't have to be chalk. You can lay it on it's side/back with it's head near the ground and draw a line in the dirt with your finger. They will eventually get up on their own but it can take a while.

[Cade Stedman]

I think this is more likely "what to do with a chicken that has been trained to stare at chalk."

[SiskinOnUTube]

This must be why I black out when I see a line of coke.

[BEARCAT120]

dafuq?

[cinnamonkiss54]

sending it to sauce maybe michael can explain why :P

[BabyElefantBear]

That's gotta be cocaine.