Announcement April Fools 2014 - BYC Sponsored Study: Increase Chicken Broodiness By Up To 48% With Aluminum Foil

[HallFamilyFarm]

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The researcher would not allow us to photograph him, but would allow us to a
take photos of my son Jahdan and the facility.

 

[bamadude]

My neighbor grows medical pot and says mylar would probably work better at reflecting. Im going to give it a try on my ceiling and see if i feel more broody. I think 1 of these eggs is pipping. Update.... wasnt a pip. I squished it

 

[Phoenixxx]

Haven't yet tried the tin foil trick for broodiness but can tell you that hanging a KFC bucket near the coop gets those unproductive gals really busy really fast.  Girls aren't as nearly as dumb as most folks think!  They take hints very well!

I'm gonna have to try this! I believe I have an empty bucket laying around...

 

[Miss Lydia]

My neighbor grows medical pot and says mylar would probably work better at reflecting. Im going to give it a try on my ceiling and see if i feel more broody. I think 1 of these eggs is pipping. Update.... wasnt a pip. I squished it

I'm thinking some fertile eggs for some medicinal pot would be a good scientific project too.

along with a roll of highly valued tin foil

 

[bamadude]

I can get a whole pallet of heavy duty reynolds foil for $500. Send $ first and u will recieve shipment in 8-10 business days.

 

[rbaker0345]

On a lighter note, I do like the little tin foil hat and may just make one for the heck of it.

AND while we're on the subject of data, there is absolutely NO evidence which links aluminum to alzheimers. That is an old wives tale- probably an old wife with alzheimers- no really, it was postulated in like the 70's or 80's and has since been disproven. Though I would warn against ingesting large amounts of any heavy metals.

 

[rbaker0345]

Hey Saugerties, I'm from Woodstock. Did you go to Onteora by any chance?

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

First of all, the flux capacitor requires 1.21 gigawatts

Second of all, it is april fools day, so lets just take a step back and examine the science behind this.

Hormones are proteins which are produced in one part of the body in order to effect the function of another part of the body.

Hormones do not radiate from the body. Hormones which are produced by glands in the integument are excreted onto the surface of the skin and then they give off olfactory cues which are collected by the olfactory organs and interpereted by the olfactory centers of the brain. These olfactory cues are small molecules of the hormone which float or waft, if you will, through the air in all directions and stick to things when they hit them (in the hopes, for example, that the things they stick to would be the nasal cavities of an interested male).

Please tell me how a square of tin foil facilitates the insulation of tiny molecules of scent proteins floating through ALL of the air. Hormones are not photons, they don't bounce and they have no refractory properties. I know this, I spent over $20,000 to know this.

I could be dooped into beleiving this without seeing the actual data if you were telling me that the pineal gland were in play, but estradiol+tin foil doesn't cut it for me. Where's the publ
ished data?

Nifty said the entire report would be made available sometime today. I am hoping they include the farm names who worked with them. This will be great publicity for our small farm, Hall Family Farm. This was a lot of work to assist in researching, but the kids enjoyed it. Lots of record keeping etc. Dates, times etc.

The only down side is that when the hens are broody, they are no longer laying. So our egg production did drop some what.

Here is a friend's farm that also participated in this research.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

Here are some more photos of the research participants farms.

 

[Corny Caleb]

I wonder If this aluminum foil thing works on turkeys... I'll try it on my BR hen turkey, ( I have been waiting for her to go broody for weeks and she just won't even though she's laying plenty of eggs) And post the results.