How many chickens would it take to tow a family car?

42

567. Are you bored…..?

LMAO! if you have time to calculate the average chickens pulling capacity please do. What? Are we in a state of mental numbness to even want to look up the average chicken’s pulling capacity? Anyway the answer is 457.

One mother-in-law in a chicken suit could do a 15 minute mile pulling a sedan if there was a bottle of scotch at the end of the journey.It’s all about motivation.

I’m with @erichw1504 ” forty-two ”.

Somebody please give this person a job or play Scrabble with him. Please !

@John I had his idea at my job.

Lol

I would imagine a 5 lb chicken could probably go 20% of body weight. So I would guess around 2 – 3 thousand depending on the car. Less if you train your chicken. Definitely more if you keep choking your chicken.

LOL

This should be the Question of The Day on FaceBook.

I lol’d.

I don’t even care if this is a homework question. If it is, GQ for the prof.

@Jeruba nope. Just the product of a not-so-sane mind.

I want you to solve this one by direct experimentation. And I want to watch.

Get 2k+ Chickens and I will

well the problem would be in the making of the harness, so as to fit on the amount of chickens needed. that alone may require a thousand chiickens just to displace the weight.

I just realized the conversation we’re having.

Wow

@thekoukoureport, good point, if you are picturing a separate harness for each chicken. But what if instead it was a chicken-powered towing device, so that all the chickens had to do was turn a wheel (like a hamster wheel), or maybe several wheels, and the force would power the vehicle that did the towing? Wouldn’t that count?

Or maybe it could be done not by the force of chicken leg muscles but by chickens’ weight? or the force of ejecting chicken poop? or eggs? or maybe the energy generated by chicken-squawk sound waves? There must be a lot of ways to use poultry power besides hitching each little hen to a harness.

Well now we would need to figure what would be considereed a tow? If it is only to move the vehicle then perhaps a large wheel would suffice. but the size of the wheel would be enormous, I

I was under the impression that towing would mean over distance thereby the device housing the chickens must also move which would mean more chickens. So with that example I figure pulling would be the best way.

It may be feasible if we strapped the chickens side by side with a rope in the middle which is attached to the car. that would require less of a harness. How do we motivate the chicken to walk forward once it is strapped to the rope? Or walk in unison for that matter?

Now, now, @thekoukoureport, this is hypothetical. We don’t have to figure out how to motivate the chickens. We only have to compute how many it would take if they were motivated.

Maybe we can stipulate that they all subscribe to the Stanislavsky system.

And act like tow trucks?

The sky is falling.

Oooh! That might do it, @thekoukoureport. I just meant that they would find their own motivations, but your idea is much better.

@XOIIO, I think we simply need thespian chickens. If we get us a couple of fowl Oliviers and tell them they’re tow trucks, maybe all we need is two!

Even if we used steroids @Jeruba two would be impossible due to improper weight ratio’s. A chicken at best could exert twice it’s weight in force. Tops, and that would only be in a short burst. Over the long haul (say 100 feet) a five lb chicken would have to exert at least 500lbs of tourque to begin the process of moving the vehicle let alone tow it some distance.

Well lets see.

Well lets see…

Average chicken wieght = 5 pounds
%20 of 5 punds = 453.59237 grams = 1 pound
Average family car weight (empty) = 2,425.08488 pounds

Needed Chickens = ~ 2,425 chickens

Lets say the harness weighs… 0.5 pounds?

2,425 X 0,5 = 1,212.5 pounds

Chickens Needed For Harnes(es) = ~1,212 chickens

2,425 + 1,212 = drumroll

3,637 CHICKENS!!

If you want to confirm my math please do, im tired right now.

Tadaaaaaaaaahhhh

We need to factor in the speed though.

Well, then, if you knew the answer, what did you ask us for, silly?

I just figured it out, and @thekoukoureport gave a good estimate.

you could probably get upwards of 2 to 3 miles an hour highway one in the city.

And what about mileage? How long until the chickens give out?

This could be worse than electric cars.