Actually, chickens can retaliate against those that make them suffer. If they don’t like how they’re being treated, they can run away. So farmers have to either make sure the chickens like how they’re being treated, or make sure to have good fencing. The reason we don’t have contracts with chickens is because chickens don’t have the intelligence to form contracts.
So farmers have to either make sure the chickens like how they’re being treated, or make sure to have good fencing.
It has most likely been easier to accomplish some form of the latter than the former since we first domesticated them. Of course, being kept in fences would be a huge step up for modern farmed chickens.
Actually, chickens can retaliate against those that make them suffer. If they don’t like how they’re being treated, they can run away. So farmers have to either make sure the chickens like how they’re being treated, or make sure to have good fencing. The reason we don’t have contracts with chickens is because chickens don’t have the intelligence to form contracts.
It has most likely been easier to accomplish some form of the latter than the former since we first domesticated them. Of course, being kept in fences would be a huge step up for modern farmed chickens.