Are people really this ignorant about chicken biology?

[AndyL]

I have to agree with the last two posts, if you are not educated about something due to the fact you are not exposed to it................it does not mean you are stupid.

How do you set the timing on a Chevy small block engine? What do you mean you don't know?!?! I knew how to do that since I was a kid!

See what I mean! You have to be taught to learn.

Andy

 

[Kim_NC]

DH's nephew, 36, said to me....."I don't understand how the rooster can get sperm inside the egg past that hard shell." His wife seriously rolled her eyes.

He can't set the timing on a Chevy small block engine either.

Great software programmer though.







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[Krodsorin]

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How does the rooster get sperm into the egg?

 

[chickenbottom]

lol awwww this is a funny thread

 

[joebryant]

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From brown cows of course. LOL

I knew THAT.

 

[LizzyJo]

No cable, no proper educational system--but we had libraries. I remember sneaking into the library and finding out all kinds of interesting things about human reproduction and marital "duties" when I was 12-13 years old (really naive by today's standards, I thought--but after reading stuff on here maybe I wasn't so backwards afterall).

I never thought that some people never made the transition in knowledge from fish and frogs to chickens and people. If no one really pointed it out to them, why should they? It sure raises interesting pictures in my head of humans that don't have all the facts trying to mate. What did they think their own bodies and instincts were doing to/with them?

 

[Kim_NC]

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He deposits sperm into the hen during mating. The embryo is fertilized before the shell is formed.

This page covers it well: http://chickscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/explore/embryology/day05/ovary.html

 

[codybird]

I would be willing to bet that if you gave a test on the specific workings of the poultry reproductive system to this website's members, you would be surprised.

 

[chickenbottom]

i second that

 

[hikerchick]

I thought libraries were for looking up things that you are interested in. I was not particulary interested in chickens, growing up in the inner city. Am I stupid because I was not an expert on their reproductive system?