laugh of the day

So I was talking to one of my coworkers about having to get rid of my rooster (in town). Another came by and said "Oh you have a rooster?" I said "Yeah he was supposed to be a hen." She asked "Why would you want hens without roosters?" "For eggs." "They lay eggs without a rooster? I thought you needed both." "No, roosters are only needed to fertilize the eggs and get baby chicks." "The eggs have a yolk and everything without a rooster." "Yes, I'm going to send you the link to the Magic School Bus episode Cracks a yolk. You can learn all about chickens and laying eggs."



That is one of my son's favorite episodes of Magic School Bus, so I knew about it and I could tell them. Apparently city slickers didn't realize that hens can lay an egg a day at times. I said not as often in the winter, but yeah they can lay most days and no rooster is required. Both were in shock. They admitted they don't know anything about farm animals. Lol!

Not unusual at all. I have had people argue with me over the necessity of having roosters in order for the hens to lay.

sourland said:

Not unusual at all. I have had people argue with me over the necessity of having roosters in order for the hens to lay.

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Agreed; it's surprising the number of people who think you have to have a rooster for hens to lay eggs. I remember one incident where it took posts from both drumstick diva and myself to convince a new member that this wasn't the case.

sourland said:

Not unusual at all.  I have had people argue with me over the necessity of having roosters in order for the hens to lay.

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Obviously no one watched Magic School Bus

Michael OShay said:

Agreed; it's surprising the number of people who think you have to have a rooster for hens to lay eggs. I remember one incident where it took posts from both drumstick diva and myself to convince a new member that this wasn't the case.

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LMAO!!! I've never met anyone who didn't know about it before. Well apparently now 4 more people just admitted not knowing either.

On the radio just a few weeks back there was a lady talking about her daughter's house chicken. She said, "She had the hen for years, but she never laid any eggs because she didn't have a rooster." They were going to try to explain how chickens work, but the woman was adamant you need a rooster to get eggs. They were dying as she kept insisting you need a rooster.

You would think if someone has owned a chicken they think is a hen for years they would know how eggs work. Someone had to have explained it at some point, right?

You would think. But then again I also just had one of the same coworkers say there was an attack on a cow and they aren't sure what it was the news said Mountain Lion she said or maybe a cougar or a bobcat.
Mountain Lion or Bobcat maybe. But if it was the cougar that's a Mountain Lion. She thought they were different. I had to explain a Cougar, mountain Lion, panther (the brown color), and Puma are ALL THE SAME THING.
Poor city slickers.

Kelfeathers said:

On the radio just a few weeks back there was a lady talking about her daughter's house chicken. She said, "She had the hen for years, but she never laid any eggs because she didn't have a rooster."  They were going to try to explain how chickens work, but the woman was adamant you need a rooster to get eggs. They were dying as she kept insisting you need a rooster.


You would think if someone has owned a chicken they think is a hen for years they would know how eggs work. Someone had to have explained it at some point, right?

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I've had to explain that too. I lived in southern California when I was young and found myself explaining that on repeat in school. It's really bad when you have to explain it to the teachers.

My husband came home in stitches the other day. His coworker insisted that you can't keep chickens and cows together because cows eat chickens as part of their normal diet.

The first time my friend saw me feed my female parrot scrambled eggs was priceless. He asked, "Birds eat eggs?!" like it was the most disturbing thing he'd ever heard. The day he found her eating one of her own eggs I thought he was going to be sick.

It's so weird when something you think is basic, common knowledge is so shocking to people from the city.

Kelfeathers said:

On the radio just a few weeks back there was a lady talking about her daughter's house chicken. She said, "She had the hen for years, but she never laid any eggs because she didn't have a rooster." They were going to try to explain how chickens work, but the woman was adamant you need a rooster to get eggs. They were dying as she kept insisting you need a rooster.

You would think if someone has owned a chicken they think is a hen for years they would know how eggs work. Someone had to have explained it at some point, right?

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If her "hen" never laid any eggs, it may well have been a rooster. )

I said the same thing. When she said it had never laid a single egg I snickered and said, "I think Georgette is a George."