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Quote: Priceless!! You KNOW I'm gonna have to try this with my "got no clue about chickens" husband! Too funny........... But then, my parrot 'presents' every time you walk by her cage, so it shouldn't be too big of a surprise for him.

Quote: NOT milk a milk cow for a few DAYS?!?! That's gotta be cruel! And I think I know how much that's gotta hurt!

"Don't feed fruit to your laying hens or they'll stop laying".

Quote: 14... She was apparently told that by an adult. Strangely, though, we haven't had ham-flavored eggs. Or bread-flavored. Or June bug-flavored. Or watermelon flavored... She's one of those people who, the more you prove she's wrong, the more she thinks she's right. Don't get me...

D'Angelo N Va. : I was always told to set eggs early in the a.m...because I would get more pullets, if I set the hen at night, I'd get mostly boys...well I tried it..and the first time I set the hen with 15 eggs and 21 days later she hatched out 16 babies...as they got older I realized I had 13...

Quote: I'm tempted to believe that one. I slipped and fell in my chicken yard (nothing injured but my pride) and all the chickens came running and flying over like I had just spilled a whole bucket of scratch or something! I was worried they were gonna eat me before I could get up! It didn't...

Quote: I'm tempted to believe that one. I slipped and fell in my chicken yard (nothing injured but my pride) and all the chickens came running and flying over like I had just spilled a whole bucket of scratch or something! I was worried they were gonna eat me before I could get up! It didn't...

Quote: Add a third category to your poll, "caterwaul", and I'll vote.

Quote: My roo, Vern, won't mate the girls when I'm within eyesight. He understood from his first day here that I am the flock leader and he's second in command. He doesn't eat, sleep or mate while he can see me. BUT, he loves to show off in front of my husband! Hubby came in this morning and...

Quote: I supose next you will tell me they don't really do the chicken dance either! Well of COURSE they do the chicken dance! Sheesh, I'm not that crazy! Personally, most of my chickens are proficient in both hip-hop and contemporary dance. Recently, my pullet Holly has gotten into ballet...

Quote: Hmm...I think there's some leg-pulling going on here...............wanna know how I know? Cuz chickens don't have hands!

Quote: Would you like to elaborate? I think that meant that hens don't "sing" so much as make all kinds of racket, screaming and hollering and making weird banshee noises when they lay an egg.

Quote: I've heard that myth, but it was cayenne pepper.

Quote: I've heard that one about turkeys. I don't think it's true about chickens or turkeys............but I once had a dog that was so dumb, I'm surprised he didn't do that!

Quote: No prob! I'm a nurse....I've stuck my finger up quite a few butts, sad to say. Guys are the squeamish ones, you know....I don't know a man one that would put his finger up a chicken's butt...unless it was on some stupid dare! I agree. In my experience, it is the men who are...

Quote: My first eggs were free. Grandma gave me some of her hens and Grandpa built a coop for them (40 years ago). It's all the eggs after those that have kept me from having a decent car or tires on my truck or new clothes or ..............the list goes on.

Quote: Boy, there is something I could say, here, but I won't, in deference to the family orientation of BYC. But I am most certainly biting the inside of my cheek with the effort! Then you can imagine the difficulty I had explaining with a straight face and NOT thumpin her noggin at the...

My niece, who is grown and I *thought* was intelligent, says that "those ropy-looking white things" in eggs were rooster semen and had to pick all of that out of each egg before it was cooked. I explained that it was the chalaza, which holds the yolk in place and even unfertilized eggs have...