Chicken myths and old wives' tales, please!

[Tam'ra of Rainbow Vortex]

Most common one I have heard is that a hen will lay one egg every day for as long as she lives.
People seem perplexed when I explain that egg production varries with breed (purpose) and season/day length. Usually to the blank stares I summerize that my dual purpose flock, since they have no light except the sun will lay an average of 4 eggs/week, which is rather common. What they think of as normal would be some amazing super-chicken.

But often those are the same folks who seemed surprized that cattle are bred to be either meat or milk animals. I have many times had to explain why the dairy farm I got my beloved pet steer, Cinnamon (RIP) from was going to shoot him and bury him in the pasture if we didn't take him, rather than raise him for meat.

 

[abhaya]

The old guy down the road said he would not eat farm eggs because if the big "professionals" have problems with salmonella he wouldnt trust eggs from a farmer they probably arent as clean.

I a;most started to laugh. But he doesnt want any free eggs so what can I do?

 

[CDennis]

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At least it was a child, I had two grown males (18-20years) doing some work on my property my 3 year old slate tom walked up to the fence and GOBBLED at them, they asked my husband if it was a ROOSTER, they did decent work but needless to say I didn't hire them again, if you can't tell a turkey by its gobble I don't have much hope for you and its not like we are in NY City, its Idaho, rural Idaho at that.

The best I have heard is trying to explain to a co-worker exactly how chickens lay eggs and that the rooster doesn't sit on the eggs to fertilize them.

 

[vebyrd36]

I know what you mean. I have to nurture my sisters cat this weekend.

 

[pixie74943]

you can get blue eggs? I wonder what they taste like

pretty sure they taste like eggs...

 

[Boo-Boo's Mama]

I offered a dozen eggs to a neighbor who helped me when I had a broken water line. He said he couldn't take them...his wife refused to eat eggs unless they came from the store...she was afraid of what might be in the egg.

I lived next door to this woman when we were just kids...her mamma had chickens and I expect those chickens produced their eggs...I recall watching as she wrung the neck on one for supper.

 

[There a chick...]

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I was taught in college that lice are species specific?...

 

[Illia]

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Pullet eggs aren't edible? LOL - Then people must be chucking their chickens' eggs for months on end.

 

[quinkerton]

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I find this funny, I prectically live off from eggs and just had bw done. My dr said I had the best cholestoral count she has seen in a while. She said it was immacualte!

 

[lorrir]

I'm curious about the "don't feed chickens corn in the summer it will make them hot". I believe that one, doesn't corn add fat to them and more fat equals more heat. I don't offer cracked corn until the fall and then stop in the spring.

My brother in law won't eat the green eggs, thanks to Dr. Suess.